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…
Return Links Best of…? Poll Archive What’s the Best of August 2011? Cinema Sight Asks: What’s the best film from August 2011? Public OpinionPoll Results
Superhero films can’t seem to figure out how to make reboots work. This is the second franchise that’s re-booted itself after an unsuccessful reboot. If this is as good as The Incredible Hulk, then it might be worth the time. Man of Steel Plot Summary: A new reboot of one of the most popular 1980’s…
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: 1992 – 1996 Cinema Sight Asks: Which Best Visual Effects winner is best? Public OpinionPoll Results
I like Ang Lee as a director, but this just doesn’t look that interesting. Perhaps another trailer will excite me more. Life of Pi Plot Summary: Based on the popular children’s book, a young man finds himself shipwrecked with a hostile tiger as they float through the ocean hoping to find land. Release Date: November…
Here are the results of last week’s poll. In the Bedroom (2001) The Insider (1999) The Quiet American (2002) Quills (2000) In the Bedroom wins and goes into my queue.
Born June 1, 1926, Norma Jeane Mortenson’s father abandoned her mother before she was born. Her mentally ill mother abandoned her to foster care resulting in her almost being smothered to death at two; nearly raped at six and put to work at nine for which she was paid a nickel a month for kitchen…
