We had three films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. 12 Years a Slave Steve McQueen has been quietly amassing a stellar filmography and in spite of the plaudits his last film, Shame, received, he has been an Oscar no-show. 2013 should prove to be the year all that changes. With…
Welcome to The Morning After, where I share with you what I’ve seen over the past week either in film or television. On the film side, if I have written a full length review already, I will post a link to that review. Otherwise, I’ll give a brief snippet of my thoughts on the film…
I know this is short notice, but we’ve got another contest for you. This is your chance to win two tickets to All Is Lost, the Robert Redford drama from Cannes that earned major praise for Redford and his director J.C. Chandor (Oscar nominee for Margin Call). This is one of the year’s big Oscar…
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Every week, I get several press releases, screening invitations and other notifications from a handful of studio contacts. While I won’t be sharing any information regarding my screening invites, some of the press releases might be of interest to my readers, so I thought I’d start sharing them in toto with all of you. These…
Poster Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: October 25, 2013 Synopsis: From IMDb: “86-year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companion: his 8 year-old grandson, Billy.” Poster: B- (3) Review: The three posters together represent an astute marketing effort that focuses on the film’s central…
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: February 15, 2013 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Religious conspiracy collides with urban crime in a story told from multiple perspectives.” Poster: C Review: A jumbled visual mess, the design tries to pull in elements of a number of more successful (and even less successful) designs and ends up as a mostly…
Every week, we’ll take a look back 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 years into the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office that weekend historically. All data is taken from Box Office Mojo. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees…
We started over at the beginning of August 2013, but with a new, more streamlined methodology to collecting votes. Just choose one selection in each of the ten categories below. Our first few weeks will be to select winners in cases of ties or in years where multiple categories existed for each discipline. After that,…