We had two films releasing this weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Battleship What a difference a week can make. When I posited that Battleship was an Oscar contender, a lot was riding on how well it performed at the box office. With a dismal $25 million opening, the film looks poised to become…
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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…
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Now that you’ve (hopefully) had a chance to watch C.R.A.Z.Y., please join us in discussing this film by posting your comments below. And don’t forget, Sabin, you need to make your selection today for June 2012. You can send it by e-mail or PM on UAADB.
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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…
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Oscar News The Cannes Film Festival opened on Wednesday with Wes Andersen’s Moonrise Kingdom, and will continue to show lots of awards hopefuls over the next two weeks. The Directors Guild of America relented last week to allow screeners to get sent to its membership in voting for its annual awards. They had previously resisted…
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Will it be Steven Soderbergh or Oliver Stone who more adequately handle the drug industry? I’m placing my bet on the film that came out twelve years ago. Savages Plot Summary: Two small time pot sellers run afoul of a dangerous drug cartel. When the cartel kidnaps one of their girlfriends, they go on a…
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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…
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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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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…
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For the For the Love of Film Blogathon this week, we finish off today with Peter’s look at Hitchcock’s use of actors and his ability to compel many of them to against-type performances with great success. Alfred Hitchcock in his own words: “There is a dreadful story that I hate actors. Imagine anyone hating James…
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For the For the Love of Film Blogathon this week, we finish off our Top Ten countdown with our number one favorite Alfred Hitchcock films along with a brief note on why they are important to each of our contributors (Wesley Lovell, Peter J. Patrick, Tripp Burton) here at Cinema Sight. Number 1 Vertigo (Wesley…
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