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…
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…
I know it’s blasphemy, but I don’t think it looks that good. Django Unchained Plot Summary: A vengeance-seeking man frees a slave named Django to help him exact revenge on the brothers that took Django’s wife from him. Release Date: December 25, 2012 Poster Trailer Rating: B Commentary: This classic design pays homage to all…
Here are the results of last week’s poll. Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) Pygmalion (1938) Random Harvest (1942) The Bells of St. Mary’s (1937) The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) Angels With Dirty Faces wins and goes into my queue.
Born September 2, 1929 in Ogden, Utah, William Hal Ashby was the fourth child of a Mormon dairy farmer who committed suicide when the future director was 12. His troubled early life, including finding his father’s body, led to five marriages, two of them before he was 21. By his own account, Ashby had fifty…
