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…
Welcome to our ninth monthly Cinema Sight Film Club. We start on the first day of each month with one selection based on the order people signed up to be part of the club. Site contributor Tripp Burton has selected 1996’s Irma Vep. The film is available on both Netflix standard and instant. Here’s how…
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 didn’t care about the first Ron Burgundy film. I don’t think I’ll care about the sequel either. Anchorman 2 Plot Summary: Ron Burgundy returns to the big screen. Release Date: Coming Soon, 2013 Poster Trailer Rating: C Commentary: The initiated will get excited over the design, but everyone else will wonder what’s so special…
Here are the results of last week’s poll. The Untouchables (1987) Once Upon a Time in America (1984) The Roaring Twenties (1939) White Heat (1949) Scarface (1932) Bugsy (1991) The Untouchables wins and goes into my queue.
Born William Franklin Beedle, Jr. on April 17, 1918 in O’Fallon, Illinois, the future William Holden moved to Pasadena, California with his family when he was three. He was discovered by a Paramount film scout while appearing in a school play at Pasadena Junior College and given a contract by the studio. After two minor…
