Page Revisions: (July 11, 2021) Original (September 12, 2021) New Trailer (#2) — New Posters (#13-#18) Release Date: October 1, 2021 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The Addams get tangled up in more wacky adventures and find themselves involved in hilarious run-ins with all sorts of unsuspecting characters. Sequel to the 2019 animated film, ‘The Addams Family’.”…
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Every week, we’ll take a look back in 5-year intervals at the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office each weekend historically. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees during that weekend at the box office (as well as a section looking…
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Below are our face-offs for this week. Choose the better winner in each category. For more information on how the game works, click here.
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Return Links Polls Remaking Best Adapted Screenplay, 2014 In our twelfth pass of the Oscar nominees from 1997 through 2016, we take a look at the nominees for Best Adapted Screenplay. Each week, we’ll present a list of contenders from which you can select five to make up the Best Adapted Screenplay slate. There will…
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Page Revisions: (July 11, 2021) Original (July 25, 2021) New Poster (#1) (August 8, 2021) New Release Date (changed from 7/13/21) Release Date: August 13, 2021 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Adaptation of Carter Sickels’ 2012 novel.” Poster Rating: C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: The attempts to weather the poster and make it feel like a…
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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. With five tremendous actresses working together on this stylish action film, it feels appropriate…
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Born September 20, 1906, in Los Angeles, California, Russell Metty first worked in the film industry as a lab technician, becoming an apprentice cameraman for Paramount in 1929. He then became a lighting cameraman at RKO. His first credit as cinematographer was for 1934’s West of the Pecos. Metty’s first major film of note as…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Our Site Milestones 2011: The Cinema Sight Film Club (1)
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Return Links Polls What Are You Watching? (Jul. 16-18, 2021)
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Page Revisions: (July 11, 2021) Original (August 15, 2021) New Posters (#3-#16) Release Date: August 20, 2021 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Ryder and the pups are called to Adventure City to stop Mayor Humdinger from turning the bustling metropolis into a state of chaos.” Poster Rating: B / B / C+ (14) SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW…
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With Black Widow entering its second week, three films hope to take it down, but only one of them is likely to do so. The original Space Jam was a success in its day and this is the only one of the three new wide releases with any chance of toppling Black Widow. Our Highest…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Page Revisions: (July 11, 2021) Original Release Date: July 20, 2021 Synopsis: From IMDb: “In this feel-good apocalyptic comedy, Liza (Zoe Lister-Jones) embarks on a hilarious journey through LA in hopes of making it to her last party before it all ends, running into an eclectic cast of characters along the way.” Poster Rating: B-…
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New This Week Finally available on Blu-ray, Criterion’s 4K restoration of Howard Hawks’ 1938 comedy classic, Bringing Up Baby, was well worth the wait. Four years prior to the film’s release, Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night and Hawks’ Twentieth Century ushered in the era of screwball comedy with Capra’s film winning a slew of…
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