Return Links Polls Remaking Best Original Screenplay, 2001 In our eleventh pass of the Oscar nominees from 1997 through 2016, we take a look at the nominees for Best Original Screenplay. Each week, we’ll present a list of contenders from which you can select five to make up the Best Original Screenplay slate. There will…
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Page Revisions: (November 22, 2020) Original Release Date: December 20, 1930 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A grieving woman embarks on an emotional journey after the loss of her baby.” Poster Rating: D SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: The close-up poster design seldom works as it is supposed to capture something much more keenly observed than this…
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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. This weekend, a small number of films release, and while I had some interesting…
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Born June 10, 1911 in London, England to a British diplomat and his wife, Oxford educated Terence Rattigan was one of the preeminent British playwrights of the 20th Century. Rattigan began writing plays in 1934. He cowrite an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities with John Gielgud in 1935, but the play…
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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? (Nov. 27-29, 2020)
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Page Revisions: (November 22, 2020) Original Release Date: December 10, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A famous author goes on a cruise trip with her friends and nephew in an effort to find fun and happiness while she comes to terms with her troubled past.” Poster Rating: D SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: There’s too much…
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Once again, we only have one new wide release for the weekend and with this being a holiday weekend, usually one of the biggest of the year, it will be interesting to see just how many people actually make it to theaters. Our Highest Rated Films: The Croods: A New Age Our Best Awards Ratings:…
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Ex Machina Rating Director Alex Garland Screenplay Alex Garland Length 1h 48m Starring Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, Oscar Isaac, Sonoya Mizuno MPAA Rating R Original Preview Click Here
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Page Revisions: (November 22, 2020) Original (January 10, 2021) New Trailer (#2) — New Posters (#2-#5) Release Date: December 25, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “One Night in Miami is a fictional account of one incredible night where icons Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown gathered discussing their roles in the civil rights…
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If there was a time when the Grammys were relevant as an Oscar prognostiscator, I cannot think of when. They have an asynchronous eligibility period where fall releases for one year show up in the nominations the following year. That is particularly true of this year’s slate. eleven films out of nineteen nominations were released…
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New This Week Inasmuch as this is my 700th DVD Report, it’s as good a time as any to take a look back at my first column which appeared on May 8, 2007 when the DVDs released that day were spiffed up re-releases of The Caine Mutiny, To Catch a Thief, The Guns of Navarone,…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Return Links Polls Now That You’ve Seen Love, Weddings & Other Disasters…?
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