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…
Rango Rating Director Gore Verbinski Screenplay John Logan, Gore Verbinski, James Ward Byrkit Length 107 min. Starring Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin, Ned Beatty, Alfred Molina, Bill Nighy, Stephen Root, Harry Dean Stanton, Timothy Olyphant, Ray Wisntone, Ian Abercrombie, Gil Birmingham, James Ward Byrkit MPAA Rating PG for rude humor, language, action and smoking
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…
Two actors I’m ambivalent about (Joaquin Phoenix and Amy Adams) and one actor I can’t stomach anymore (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) with a director I love (Paul Thomas Anderson)? I still haven’t seen Punch-Drunk Love if that tells you anything about my interest in this film. The Master Plot Summary: A soldier, returning from home attempts…
On Sundays, we list the weekend’s upcoming films along with previews of trailers and posters. On Wednesdays, we preview all of the upcoming new wide and limited releases hitting the theaters the coming weekend. On Fridays, we’ll now tell you what you should see. We pose two questions each week to our contributors and their…
Time for another week of the Friday Face-Off. It’s a simple affair in which you are given a choice between two Oscar winners in specific categories. You choose which of the two is best. When the game concludes, we’ll have the ultimate winner in each category. For example: If you were to choose between Oscar…
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…
Return Links Best Visual Effects Poll Archive Best Visual Effects Poll: 1998 – 2002 Cinema Sight Asks: Which Best Visual Effects winner is best? Public OpinionPoll Results
I’ve always been curious why secondary trailers and later tend to become more and more idiotic. Is the film comparatively problematic or do the trailer creators want it to appeal to the base denominator. Rise of the Guardians (trailer #2, new posters) Plot Summary: The Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and the Sandman…
Here are the results of last week’s poll. An Education (2009) In the Valley of Elah (2007) A Single Man (2009) Frozen River (2008) With a tie in this topic, I’ll go with the film I’d rather see, though I’m disappointed A Single Man wasn’t in contention. An Education wins and goes into my queue.