We had two films that released this weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. The Amazing Spider-Man The original was nominated for Best Sound and Best Visual Effects. The second film was nominated for the same categories plus Sound Editing and won for Best Visual Effects. The third film didn’t even make the Oscar cut.…
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…
The Amazing Spider-Man Rating Director Marc Webb Screenplay James Vanderbilt, Alvin Sargent, Steve Kloves Length 136 min. Starring Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Martin Sheen, Sally Field, Irrfan Khan, Campbell Scott, Embeth Davidtz, Chris Zylka, Max Charles MPAA Rating PG-13 for sequences of action and violence
The Woman in Black Rating Director James Watkins Screenplay Jane Goldman (Novel: Susan Hill) Length 95 min. Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Sophie Stuckey, Roger Allam, Ciaran Hinds, Janet McTeer, Daniel Cerqueira, Liz White MPAA Rating PG-13 for thematic material and violence/disturbing images
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…
Oscar News The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences released a list of new rules for the next Academy Awards. Among them are the inclusion of hairdressing to the Best Makeup category, an expansion to the number of songwriters who can share a nomination for Best Song and a change in the shortlisting of…
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…