After weeks of voting, we have a result: Picture: Casablanca Animated Feature: Spirited Away Directing: Joseph L. Mankiewicz – All About Eve Actor: Jack Nicholson – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Actress: Vivien Leigh – A Streetcar Named Desire Supporting Actor: Joe Pesci – Good Fellas Supporting Actress: Ruth Gordon – Rosemary’s Baby Original…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Return Links Polls Remaking Best Directing, 2003 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…
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Page Revisions: (May 22, 2022) Original Release Date: June 3, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “An intersex African hacker, a coltan miner and the virtual marvel born as a result of their union.” Poster Rating: C+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: A strange blend of colors doesn’t off-set the paucity of the design, which is odd…
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Page Revisions: (May 22, 2022) Original (June 12, 2022) New Trailer (#2) — New Poster (#1) Release Date: August 5, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The origin story of the Predator in the world of the Comanche Nation 300 years ago. Naru, a skilled female warrior, fights to protect her tribe against one of the first…
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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. A box office draw for three decades now, Tom Cruise has gotten a lot…
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The Vietnam War was the backdrop for both Best Director Michael Cimino’s Oscar winning Best Picture, The Deer Hunter, and Hal Ashby’s also nominated Coming Home. Other nominees were Alan Parker’s Midnight Express, Paul Mazursky’s An Unmarried Woman and Warren Beatty and Buck Henry’s Heaven Can Wait. Overlooked were Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven, Ingmar…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Page Revisions: (May 22, 2022) Original Release Date: June 10, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A father tries hard to be a good dad but alcoholism is the huge deterrant.” Poster Rating: – SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: There was no poster immediately available for my review. Should one become available in the future, this section…
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Page Revisions: (May 22, 2022) Original Release Date: June 17, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “In the near future, convicts are offered the chance to volunteer as medical subjects to shorten their sentence. One such subject for a new drug capable of generating feelings of love begins questioning the reality of his emotions.” Poster Rating: C+…
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness will be going down this weekend as Tom Cruise’s first new feature in four years rides the wave of sensational reviews to a box office-topping victory 36 years ago. That film spent a total of three non-consecutive weeks at the top of the box office, its first, fourth,…
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Babe Rating Director Chris Noonan Screenplay George Miller, Chris Noonan (Novel: Dick King-Smith) Length 1h 31m Starring Christine Cavanaugh, Miriam Margolyes, Danny Mann, Hugo Weaving, Miriam Flynn, Russie Taylor, Evelyn Krape, Michael Edward-Stevens, Charles Bartlett, Paul Livingston, Roscoe Lee Browne, James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski MPAA Rating G
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Page Revisions: (May 22, 2022) Original (June 26, 2022) New Trailer (#2) (September 25, 2022) New Poster (#2) Release Date: September 30, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Two men with commitment problems attempt a relationship.” Poster Rating: C+ / C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1) It feels like it’s trying too hard to be evocative…
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Page Revisions: (May 22, 2022) Original Release Date: June 17, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Follows Nancy Stokes, a 55 year-old widow who is yearning for some adventure, human connection and some sex, good sex.” Poster Rating: C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: There isn’t enough here to be effective, though it’s compelling enough through its…
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