Born January `16, 1890 in Königinhof, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary, now Dvur Kralove, Czech Republic, future Oscar winner Karl Freund moved with his family to Berlin when he was 11. In 1905, when he was 15, he went to work as a projectionist. Two years later he was a newsreel photographer. He was then drafted into the…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Our Site Milestones 2011: Oscar in Box Office History (10)
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Return Links Polls What Are You Watching? (Oct. 22-24, 2021)
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Page Revisions: (October 17, 2021) Original Release Date: September 3, 2021 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Claire, a 50-year-old divorced teacher, creates a fake Facebook profile of a 24-year-old woman. She finds a photo of a pretty young blonde and uses it. She has created an entirely fictional character, but why?” Poster Rating: C / C- /…
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Page Revisions: (October 17, 2021) Original Release Date: September 30, 2021 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Just as Tessa makes the biggest decision of her life, everything changes. Revelations about her family, and then Hardin’s, throw everything they knew before in doubt and makes their hard-won future together more difficult to claim.” Poster Rating: C- / C+…
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Here we look at the upcoming month’s offerings. November 5, 2021 Eternals Premise: From IMDb: “The saga of the Eternals, a race of immortal beings who lived on Earth and shaped its history and civilizations.” Box Office Prospects: $200 M Expectations: Excellent. With the box office starting to rebound, Disney has done tremendously well getting…
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This weekend, we have a battle of two types of audiences. The first film is likely to draw a lot of fans of Frank Herbert’s seminal sci-fi classic. The other film is likely to appeal to families who haven’t had as much to see at theaters recently. Ultimately, the expansive epic is more likely to…
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2001: A Space Odyssey Rating Director Stanley Kubrick Screenplay Stanley Kubrick & Arthur C. Clarke (Short Story: Arthur C. Clarke) Length 2h 29m Starring Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Leonard Rossiter, Margaret Tyzack, Robert Beatty, Sean Sullivan, Douglas Rain MPAA Rating G
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As is our tradition, May begins our first predictive look at the year’s Oscar hopefuls. A lot of factors will play into how well our guesses hold up. Expect many of them to fall by the wayside as the year progresses and new contenders to rise into their places. With the festival circuit having run…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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New Trailer (#2) Needle in a Timestack, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for all of the new content as well as the original.
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Page Revisions: (October 17, 2021) Original (December 19, 2021) Revised Summary (January 9, 2022) New Posters (#3-#19) (January 16, 2022) New Trailer (#2) — New Posters (#20-#22) Release Date: January 14, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Twenty-five years after the original series of murders in Woodsboro, a new killer emerges, and Sidney Prescott must return to…
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New This Week The Criterion Collection has released a content-loaded two-disc 4K digital restoration of Raoul Walsh’s seminal 1941 actioner High Sierra on Blu-ray. Marking the moment when the gritty gangster films of the 1930s began giving way to the romantic fatalism of 1940s film noir, to quote the notes on the Blu-ray case’s back…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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A long list of lots of documentaries. Not everything under the sun was nominated, but most of it was. Some Oscar nominees likely. Some not. We’ll just have to wait and see. Nominations Tallies (6) Ascension, Summer of Soul (5) The Rescue (4) Becoming Cousteau, The Sparks Brothers, Val, The Velvet Underground (3) Attica, The…
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