Updated Preview: Wicker (2026)
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Rating the Nominees, Group 4, #10
Over the next several weeks, we’ll be looking at the quality of the Oscar nominees. In most of the major categories, you’ll be asked to rank the nominees in a specific category on a scale from 1 to 10 with ten being best, 1 being worst. Even if you don’t like a movie, please be…
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Oscar Profile: Winton C. Hoch
Born July 31, 1905, in Storm Lake, Iowa, Winton C. Hoch is the only cinematographer of note working in the black-and-white era of film that never lensed a black-and-white feature film. Moving to California in 1924 and graduating in 1931 as a chemist from the California Institute of Technology, Hoch was a research physicist who joined…
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Review: Nickel Boys (2025)
Nickel Boys Rating Director RaMell Ross Screenplay RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes (Book: Colson Whitehead) Length 2h 20m Starring Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Jimmie Fails, Ethan Cole Sharp, Daveed Diggs MPAA Rating PG-13 Original Preview Click Here Review A terrific story can only take a film so far, it takes…
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Poll: Re-Awarding Best Production Design, 2005
Return Links Polls Re-Awarding Best Production Design, 2005 Now that we’ve finished rebuilding the nomination slate between 1997 and 2016 (we’ll do subsequent years after this series has completed), we will take those rebuilt slates and pick a new winner from among the nominees. In our eighth pass, we take a look at the new…
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Oscar History: January 9 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1908: William B. Murphy (62 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Editing 1941: Susannah York (70 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Supporting Actress 1955: J. K. Simmons (70) {2 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Supporting Actor Oscar Win: Supporting Actor 1956: Imelda…
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Film Preview: Love Me (2025)
Page Revisions: (January 5, 2025) Original Release Date: January 31, 2025 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A postapocalyptic romance in which a buoy and a satellite meet online and fall in love after the end of human civilization.” Poster Rating: C+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1, C+) This is perhaps too spot on for its own…
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77th Directors Guild Nominations
Today’s other major guild announcement is good news for some, bad news for others. Coralie Fargeat, Denis Villeneuve, and Jon M. Chu all desperately needed a citation here to stay in contention for the Oscars. The all-male list might spur the Academy to replace someone (probably Mangold) with Fargeat. Chu had always seemed like an…
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Rating the Nominees, Group 3, #10
Over the next several weeks, we’ll be looking at the quality of the Oscar nominees. In most of the major categories, you’ll be asked to rank the nominees in a specific category on a scale from 1 to 10 with ten being best, 1 being worst. Even if you don’t like a movie, please be…
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Rating the Nominees, Group 3, #10
Over the next several weeks, we’ll be looking at the quality of the Oscar nominees. In most of the major categories, you’ll be asked to rank the nominees in a specific category on a scale from 1 to 10 with ten being best, 1 being worst. Even if you don’t like a movie, please be…
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31st Screen Actors Guild Nominations
There was no live announcement this year because of the California wildfires but the nominations have been announced and are below. The five Best Cast nominees have likely secured Best Picture berths as all five have been in the conversation for nominations. The admiration of Wicked, with nominations in all but one category (but including…
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Looking at the Weekend: Jan. 10-12, 2025
Den of Thieves 2 is one of only two new wide releases in theater but it has the most potential of those two. Then there are three films expanding wide and any of them could do better, easily. OTHER RELEASES We are only looking at films that have had trailers released on Rotten Tomatoes’ trailer…
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The Contenders 24/25: Dec. Retrospective/Feb. Forecast
We’re looking at Oscar contenders as they release and trying to determine which films have potential and which have wasted it. Let’s look back at the month of December and see what films succeeded and faltered. Then we’ll look forward to February and see what has some potential. Wesley Lovell’s Thoughts December Retrospective Our final…
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Poll: What Are You Watching? (Jan. 10-12, 2025)
Return Links Polls What Are You Watching? (Jan. 10-12, 2025)
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Oscar History: January 8 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1892: Gordon Hollingshead (60 at death) {23 Noms, 7 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Assistant Directing, Documentary Short, One-Reel Short Film, Two-Reel Short Film Oscar Wins: Assistant Directing, Documentary Short, One-Reel Short Film, Two-Reel Short Film 1903: Robert Webb (87 at death) {1 Nom, 1 Win} Oscar Nomination: Assistant…
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8th Chicago Indie Critics Nominations
Chicago’s independent film critics have gone heavy for two titles that haven’t gotten nearly as much broad love as its lower-nominated films. Nosferatu and The Substance really outdid themselves this time. Nominations Tallies (11) Nosferatu, The Substance (10) The Brutalist, Dune: Part Two (8) The Wild Robot (7) Nickel Boys, Sing Sing, Wicked (5) Anora…
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