Poll: What Are You Watching? (Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 2026)
Looking at Film from Every Angle
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Contender: A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)
CLICK HERE for more details about the Contenders series. CLICK HERE to see a list of other films in the 2024 Contenders series. A Quiet Place: Day One was added to this list based on the following criteria: $100 Million+ Box Office Type of Contender: Effects Contender Factor: 61.7 out of 100 (Stage 5 of…
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Film Preview: Some Other Woman (2025)
Page Revisions: (December 15, 2024) Original Release Date: January 3, 2025 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Eve was promised a few months on a tropical island for her husbands work – Years later, unable to build the family they wanted, reality starts to unravel when she encounters a strange woman who begins taking over her life piece…
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Film Preview: Laws of Man (2025)
Page Revisions: (December 15, 2024) Original Release Date: January 10, 2025 Synopsis: From IMDb: “At the dawn of the Cold War, two U.S. marshals pursue a wanted murderer in the deserts of Nevada.” Poster Rating: – SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: There was no poster immediately available for my review. Should one become available in…
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Rating the Nominees, Group 5, #7
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 5, #7
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 History: December 20 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1887: Virgil E. Miller (86 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Cinematography (Black-and-White) 1893: Stephen Avery (54 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Original Story 1898: Irene Dunne (91 at death) {5 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Actress 1907: Paul Francis Webster (76…
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Film Preview: Extremely Unique Dynamic (2025)
Page Revisions: (December 15, 2024) Original (January 5, 2025) New Poster (#1) Release Date: January 10, 2025 Synopsis: From IMDb: “During their final weekend together, two best friends test the limits of their friendship while making a triple-meta film.” Poster Rating: C+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1, C+) This is something of a mixed…
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Contender: Thelma (2024)
CLICK HERE for more details about the Contenders series. CLICK HERE to see a list of other films in the 2024 Contenders series. Thelma was added to this list based on the following criteria: Precursor Citation Type of Contender: Acting Contender Factor: 60.6 out of 100 (Stage 5 of 5 complete) Stage 1 – Pedigree…
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Film Preview: Black Diamond (2025)
Page Revisions: (December 15, 2024) Original (January 5, 2025) New Poster (#1) Release Date: January 10, 2025 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Follows a young woman whose idyllic life with her hedge funder boyfriend turns it into a deadly triangle of lust, obsession and murder after meeting a local cowboy handyman.” Poster Rating: C+ SEE ALL POSTERS…
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Film Preview: Trigger Happy (2025)
Page Revisions: (December 15, 2024) Original Release Date: January 14, 2025 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A repressed husband attempts to murder his bread-winning wife for her life insurance policy in this madcap, 1950’s-inspired satire.” Poster Rating: – SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: There was no poster immediately available for my review. Should one become available in…
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6th Society of Composers & Lyricists Nominations
The Society of Composers & Lyricists is a newer group and their influence on Oscar nominations are difficult to assess. With two TV nominees and one non-shortlisted title among their 12 total song nominations, it’s hard to assess how this might impact the result. Most of the Original Score contenders made it through as well,…
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9th New Mexico Critics Awards
New Mexico’s Critics are one of the hardest groups to find most years. They do very little self-advertising and their website hasn’t been updated since 2018. That they went predominantly for Anora isn’t much of a surprise but they did like Wicked a lot more than other groups, so there is something new to see…
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14th Black Critics Awards
This is a result that seems more in line with what we would expect. Their top award winner also won the most prizes. For the most part, their selections are about as expected. Award Tallies (4) Sing Sing (3) Nickel Boys (1) All We Imagine as Light, The Brutalist, Daughters, Gladiator II, Malcolm Washington, The…
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29th Satellite Awards Nominations
If you miss the way the Golden Globes used to fawn over the least worthy options, look no further than the International Foreign Press Academy and their list that includes such headscratchers as Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In, The Bloody Hundredth, Cabrini, Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Freedom, The Wait, and Young Woman and the…
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45th London Critics Nominations
London’s critics have a different release window to worry about and thus titles like La Chimera show up when they might be eligible for Oscar. That said, this list looks more “high brow” than most other lists, which is par for the course with this group with them ignoring seemingly more “American” efforts like Dune:…
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