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, 2013 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 4, 2021) Original Release Date: July 2, 2021 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A woman is left handcuffed to her dead husband as part of a sick revenge plot. Unable to unshackle, she has to survive as two killers arrive to finish her off.” Poster Rating: C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: While seeing…
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Page Revisions: (July 4, 2021) Original Release Date: July 16, 2021 Synopsis: From IMDb: “In New York City, a young guy falls for the daughter of his father’s nemesis.” Poster Rating: C / B+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1) A Simple design that doesn’t really tell us much other than the film is 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. Eighty issues ago, I did my 5 Favorites article on Scarlett Johansson. Since she’s…
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Born December 5, 1897, in Columbus, Georgia, Nunnally (Hunter) Johnson was the son of a railway superintendent. Educated in Columbus, he graduated from high school in 1915. Having worked for his local newspaper as a delivery boy, he became a junior reporter for the Savannah Press before moving to New York in 1919, the year…
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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? (Jul. 9-11, 2021)
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Page Revisions: (July 4, 2021) Original Release Date: July 14, 2021 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Three generations of women fight back against those who could take everything from them.” Poster Rating: C+ / C+ / C / B SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1 & #2) This first design is more precise than the second, but…
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Page Revisions: (July 4, 2021) Original Release Date: June 30, 2021 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A chainsaw-wielding George Washington teams with beer-loving bro Sam Adams to take down the Brits in a tongue-in-cheek riff on the American Revolution.” Poster Rating: C+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: Lots of details here and they all tell us what…
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Below is a wrap-up of the predictions I made several months ago, an exploration of what succeeded and what failed, and how I observe things to have gone. February 12, 2021 Judas and the Black Messiah Oscar Prospects: What I said: “Uncertain. With February being the last month to release movies for Oscar consideration this…
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F9‘s domination of the box office ends this week with the release of Black Widow, the first new Marvel Cinematic Universe film to release since the pandemic forced the re-arrangement of Disney’s big screen release schedule. It’s strange that of all the films they released directly on their streaming platform, the MCU wasn’t among them.…
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One Fine Day Rating Director Michael Hoffman Screenplay Terrel Seltzer, Ellen Simon Length 1h 48m Starring Michelle Pfeiffer, George Clooney, Mae Whitman, Alex D. Linz, Charles Durning, Jon Robin Baitz, Ellen Greene, Joe Grifasi, Pete Hamill, Anna Maria Horsford, Sheila Kelley, Robert Klein, George Martin, Michael Massee, Amanda Peet, Bitty Schram, Holland Taylor, Rachel York,…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Our Site Milestones 2010: Film Previews / Trailer Watch (11) 2011: Polls: Oscar’s Best (10)
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