Film Preview: River (2027)
Looking at Film from Every Angle
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Trailer Watch: The Master
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…
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What to See: Aug. 10-12, 2012
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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Friday Face-Off #33
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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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 32, 2012)
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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Poll: Best Visual Effects (1998 – 2002)
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
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Trailer Watch: Rise of the Guardians (trailer #2, new posters)
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…
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Feed the Queue #96
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.
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Oscar Profile #98: Arthur Kennedy
Born February 17, 1914 in Worcester, Massachusetts to Helen and J.T. Kennedy, a dentist, John Arthur Kennedy studied acting at Carnegie Institute of Technology and made his Broadway debut in 1938 as part of Maurice Evans’ Shakespearean company, the same year he married his wife, Mary. Moving to Los Angeles later that year, he was…
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Poll: What Are You Watching? (Aug. 10-12, 2012)
Return Links What Are You Watching? Poll Archive What Are You Watching? (Aug. 10-12, 2012) Cinema Sight Asks: What are you watching? (Aug. 10-12, 2012) Public OpinionPoll Results
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Trailer Watch: Looper (trailer #2)
Rian Johnson has displayed promise, but is this sci-fi thriller going to work? Looper (trailer #2) Plot Summary: A sci-fi tale where futuristic mafia men send victims back in time to be killed and disposed of, but when one “looper” as they’re called, must kill his future self, trying to contain the cunning and knowledgable…
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Game: 2012 Summer Box Office Week 15 & Week 14 Results
For a full list of rules, click here: 2012 Summer Box Office Predictions Game Rules. Submit Your Predictions for This Week Top Ten Films at the U.S. Box Office of the week in order from most money to least. Individual monetary predictions for each film. Final box office tally for all new wide releases. Awards…
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Looking at the Weekend: Aug. 10-12, 2012
Whether a new lead can keep the franchise afloat remains to be seen. As the Bond series can tell you, changing out leads can have good and bad consequences. We’ll see if Jeremy Renner can have the same success that Daniel Craig did and not the same lack of success Timothy Dalton did. Consensus Below…
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2012 Oscar Season Preview: Introduction
The last four months of every year are dedicated mostly to the analysis of Oscar contenders and their chances at year-end awards, box office crossover appeal and the ultimate prize handed out the following February. There are always films contending for the holiday dollars, but many of those films, unless they are blockbusters, won’t be…
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