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…
The sky is not falling, but it’s only a matter of time. Iron Sky Plot Summary: Having escaped Earth to begin a colony on the dark side of the moon, a group of Nazi refugees have plotted revenge against the planet that attempted to eradicate them and now want to seek revenge. Release Date: July…
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…
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Now where have I seen this film before? Bachelorette Plot Summary: A trio of friends become bachelorettes to a loose-knit friend and threaten to destroy her wedding through their own selfish pursuits. Release Date: July 27, 2012 Poster Trailer Rating: C Commentary: A single scene from a film, especially one that’s not particularly lurid, evocative…
Here are the results of last week’s poll. Reversal of Fortune (1990) Broadcast News (1987) Big (1988) Chaplin (1992) Awakenings (1990) Wall Street (1987) Reversal of Fortune wins and goes into my queue.
Born November 11, 1909 in Chicago, Illinois, Robert Ryan graduated Dartmouth College in 1932, having held the school’s heavyweight boxing championship all four years of his attendance. After graduation he found work as a sandhog, seaman, sewer builder, salesman, miner, cowboy, bodyguard-chauffeur to a mobster, photographer’s model, W.P.A. laborer and paving supervisor before turning to…
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