Oscar History: November 7 (2026)
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This Day in Oscar History: April 29 (2020)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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93rd Oscars: Awards Rules Approved
The Academy has announced several rules changes for this year’s Oscars; however, only one of them is pandemic-related, namely the change to eligibility rules for films that had to be released digitally because theaters were not open. Beyond that, some noteworthy changes include: The unfortunate merger of the Sound Mixing and Sound Editing categories because…
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Film Preview: Abe (2020)
Page Revisions: (April 26, 2020) Original Release Date: April 17, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Abe is a 12-year-old boy from Brooklyn who cooks to unite his half Israeli and half Palestinian family, but everything goes wrong.” Poster Rating: C+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: It’s a kid cooking. It says what the film is about,…
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Film Preview: Intrigo: Samaria (2020)
Page Revisions: (April 26, 2020) Original Release Date: May 5, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Nineteen-year-old Vera Kall cycles home through the night. She arrives at a farm, leaves her bike and sneaks quietly in through the door. She enters the kitchen and doesn’t even have time to notice that she’s not alone. The sudden blow…
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The DVD Report #670
New This Week Connecting Rooms and Love Among the Ruins are not films we tend to think of when we think of Bette Davis and Katharine Hepburn, but both films have been newly released on Blu-ray by Kino Lorber to remind us once again what extraordinary actresses these two legends were throughout their lives. Connecting…
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This Day in Oscar History: April 28 (2020)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Film Preview: The Lost Husband (2020)
Page Revisions: (April 26, 2020) Original Release Date: April 10, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Trying to put her life back together after the death of her husband, Libby and her children move to her estranged Aunt’s goat farm in central Texas.” Poster Rating: D+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: This split design is formulaic and…
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Film Preview: The Half of It (2020)
Page Revisions: (April 26, 2020) Original Release Date: May 1, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “When smart but cash-strapped teen Ellie Chu agrees to write a love letter for a jock, she doesn’t expect to become his friend – or fall for his crush.” Poster Rating: B- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: An interesting way to…
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This Day in Oscar History: April 27 (2020)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Film Preview: About a Teacher (2020)
Page Revisions: (April 19, 2020) Original Release Date: April 7, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “An inspiring drama about the personal journey of a new inner-city public high school teacher who enters the profession oblivious to the actual demands of teaching in the inner-city, and unaware of his own shortcomings and biases.” Poster Rating: – Review:…
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This Day in Oscar History: April 26 (2020)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Film Preview: Standing Up, Falling Down (2020)
Page Revisions: (April 19, 2020) Original Release Date: February 21, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A comedy about the unlikely friendship that kindles between a struggling stand-up comedian from L.A., forced to move back home to Eastern Long Island with his tail between his legs, and a tragically flawed, but charming and charismatic, alcoholic dermatologist. Discovering…
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This Day in Oscar History: April 25 (2020)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Film Preview: Shooting Heroin (2020)
Page Revisions: (April 19, 2020) Original Release Date: April 3, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A small town community comes together to eradicate the heroin epidemic from its midst by whatever means necessary.” Poster Rating: C- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: The title might have a clever double meaning, but this design is dullsville. Trailer Rating:…
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 17, 2020)
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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