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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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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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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Return Links Best Actress Poll Archive Best Actress Poll: 2008 – 2011 Cinema Sight Asks: Which Best Actress winner is best? Public OpinionPoll Results
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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…
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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.
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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…
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Is Denzel Washington hunting for another Oscar? Flight Plot Summary: A heroic pilot who saved a plane full of passengers from a deadly crash landing, is prosecuted after it’s discovered that he had a slightly elevated blood-alcohol content. Release Date: November 2, 2012 Poster Trailer Rating: B Commentary: I have to give points to posters…
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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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It’s Adam Sandler vs. Tom Cruise. An unlikely pairing, but one which could be as interesting to watch as that of last week’s Prometheus vs. Madagascar 3. In the end, I think Sandler’s That’s My Boy may eke out a victory, but that Rock of Ages will have longer legs. Consensus Below is a list…
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January 6-8, 2012 The Devil Inside Box Office Prediction: $10 M Box Office Expectations: What I Said: “Horror hasn’t been igniting the box office lately and we may be in the doldrum period, a time when horror bides its time waiting for a new film to pique interest in the see-sawing genre.” Box Office Results:…
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Return Links What Are You Watching? Poll Archive What Are You Watching? (Jun. 15-17, 2012) Cinema Sight Asks: What are you watching? (Jun. 15-17, 2012) Public OpinionPoll Results
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