Rather than leave another week without some polls, I thought I’d also save us some time. Last week’s polls were essentially the last in every category except the music categories. So this week, we’ll play a little bet hedging. Without knowing which of last week’s two face-offs will be the final two, I’m going to…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Our Site Milestones 2010: Box Office Predictions Game (4)
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Return Links Polls Remaking Best Directing, 2001 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 8, 2022) Original (July 10, 2022) New Posters (#2-#3) Release Date: July 15, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, and decides that she must have one of her own.” Poster Rating: C+ / C+ / B SEE ALL…
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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. There aren’t a lot of great new releases and I previously covered Stephen King…
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It was during Oscar’s fourth decade that studio control over the movie business faltered, film distribution changed from single theatre premieres to wider openings, and the Hollywood Production Code saw chinks in it that ended it completely by the end of the decade. Oscar’s 1958 Best Picture was Best Director Vincente Minnelli’s Gigi, a musical…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Return Links Polls What Are You Watching? (May 13-15, 2022)
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New Trailer (#3) DC League of Super-Pets, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for all of the new content as well as the original.
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Not terribly long ago, studios released one major box office contender a week and thanks to the pandemic that seems to be what we’re back to as we’ve seldom had more than one release a week. This week’s effort is Firestarter, a re-adaptation of an early Stephen King novel. I doubt that it can overcome…
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Soul Rating Director Pete Docter, Kemp Powers Screenplay Pete Docter, Mike Jones, Kemp Powers Length 1h 40m Starring Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Graham Norton, Rachel House, Alice Braga, Richard Ayoade, Phylicia Rashad, Donnell Rawlings, Ahmir-Khali Thompson aka Questlove, Angela Bassett, Cora Champonmmier, Margo Hall, Daveed Diggs, Rhodessa Jones, Wes Studi MPAA Rating PG Original Preview…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Page Revisions: (May 8, 2022) Original (May 15, 2022) New Poster (#2) — Updated Release Date (changed from 5.27.22) Release Date: May 20, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Ready for a night of legendary partying, three college students must weigh the pros and cons of calling the police when faced with an unexpected situation.” Poster Rating:…
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New This Week 1962’s The Counterfeit Traitor might not be William Holden’s best-known film, but it’s a very good one that contains one of his best performances. Known for such films as Sunset Boulevard, Picnic, and The Bridge on the River Kwai, Holden plays real-life Eric Ericson, an American-born oil trader of Swedish descent who…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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