We had one film releasing this weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey After the dominating success of The Lord of the Rings trilogy with the Academy 9, 10 and 11 years ago, it was thought the films of The Hobbit would be in similar contention. Lackluster reviews have largely…
More awards recognition for Argo, which has been quietly amassing a nice trove of awards. Django Unchained picked up three awards, but few of import. Award Tallies (3) Django Unchained (2) Argo, Compliance, Lincoln, Moonrise Kingdom, Zero Dark Thirty The Awards
More major recognition for Zero Dark Thirty, which seems to be chugging along this season. Award Tallies (5) Zero Dark Thirty (4) The Master (2) Beasts of the Southern Wild, Lincoln (1) Amour, The Invisible War, Moonrise Kingdom, ParaNorman The Awards
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…
As the precursor awards continue unabated through the month of December, I’m going to be providing a weekly update highlighting the films that have won and lost momentum through the precursor awards (this will be in place of my prior weekly article “Oscar Preview”. Today, we look back at the results of the New York…
It was a good night for the Weinstein Company as it took home three awards for Silver Linings Playbook including a sweep of Picture, Director, Actor and Actress along with a surprise Editing win. The victory may be sweet, but the high will be short-lived. The Satellite Awards are one of the poorest Oscar predictors…
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The Academy has narrowed the list to seven films and will further winnow the list down to twelve. Lincoln and The Hobbit are sure to be nominees, but what will the third film be? I’m leaning towards Men in Black 3, but if Les Misérables plays better with Oscar voters than it did with critics,…
What day? I put it on Friday because it’s the least interesting preview I reviewed this week. The Day Plot Summary: Five survivors of an apocalyptic event seek refuge in a seemingly abandoned farmhouse, filled with booby traps that alert a dangerous neighborhood of killers. Release Date: August 29, 2012 Poster Trailer Rating: C Commentary:…
My biggest question here is: Is The Master still in the hunt or do we have a group that saw the drubbing the film received from critics and other groups thus far and decided to rectify it with votes. There are a handful of new and eclectic choices in the bunch, but nothing particularly earth…
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…