The Ultimate List Face-Off event has now begun. We will be using Google Forms to process these polls due to their extensiveness and the ease of creating the polls. For more information on how the game works, click here. Here are this week’s batch: GOOGLE POLL.
Return Links Polls Remaking Best Directing, 2007 In our fifteenth and final pass of the Oscar nominees from 1997 through 2016, we take a look at the nominees for Best Directing. Each week, we’ll present a list of contenders from which you can select five to make up the Best Directing slate. There will be…
Page Revisions: (June 19, 2022) Original (September 4, 2022) New Posters (#1-#6) Release Date: September 9, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “First part of superhero trilogy.” Poster Rating: C+ / B- / C (3) / C+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1) There are a lot of details here, but it also looks like it’s just…
Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. In recent years, biopics of music royalty have been all the craze. Films about…
Peter Farrelly’s Green Book won Best Picture of 2018 over Best Director Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma, kicking off the decade. Among the other six nominees were Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther and Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman. Not nominated were such films as Damien Chazelle’s First Man and Paul Schrader’s First Reformed. 2019’s Best Picture award went for the…
Here we look at the upcoming month’s offerings. July 1, 2022 Minions: The Rise of Gru Premise: From IMDb: “The untold story of one twelve-year-old’s dream to become the world’s greatest supervillain.” Box Office Prospects: $280 M Expectations: Excellent. The first Minions movie outperformed all but the second film in the Despicable Me series. At…
After a disappointing opening for Lightyear, both of this week’s new releases have a shot at topping the charts with Elvis having a slight edge over The Black Phone. The former tackles the life story of a beloved musical icon. The latter is a horror film. In a sea of disappointing box office returns for…
The Shining Rating Director Stanley Kubrick Screenplay Stanley Kubrick, Diane Johnson (Novel: Stephen King) Length 2h 26m Starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson, Philip Stone, Joe Turkel MPAA Rating R
THE ACADEMY TO HONOR MICHAEL J. FOX, EUZHAN PALCY, DIANE WARREN AND PETER WEIR WITH OSCARS® AT GOVERNORS AWARDS IN NOVEMBER LOS ANGELES, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that its Board of Governors voted to present Honorary Awards to Euzhan Palcy, Diane Warren and Peter Weir, and the…