Below are our ten face-offs for this week. Each category requires you to select a certain number of films to save. For more information on how the game works, click here.
Return Links Polls Remaking Best Supporting Actress, 2009 In our third pass of the Oscar nominees from 1997 through 2016, we take a look at the nominees for Best Supporting Actress. Each week, we’ll present a list of contenders from which you can select five to make up the Best Supporting Actress slate. There will…
Page Revisions: (March 22, 2020) Original Release Date: March 27, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Over the course of a summer, two teenage girls develop the perfect kindred spirit friendship, with one big problem: one of them is dating the other’s ex.” Poster Rating: C- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: A very yellow design with not…
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 being the second week of the movie theater shut down, I’d like to…
The heroes on the front lines of the current coronavirus pandemic are the doctors and nurses who treat the sick and dying and the scientists who race to find a new form of treatment if not a cure for the horrific disease. Films about the heroics performed by like-minded individuals of the past were quite…
Parasite Rating Director Bong Joon-ho Screenplay Bong Joon-ho, Jin Won Han Length 2h 12min Starring Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Jeong Cho-yeo, Shik Choi-woo, Park So-dam, Lee Jung-eun, Chang Hyae-jin MPAA Rating R for language, some violence and sexual content Original Preview Click Here
Page Revisions: (March 22, 2020) Original Release Date: April 17, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Two friends embark on a cross-country road trip where they prank people using hidden cameras.” Poster Rating: C+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: Ice cream after a car accident. It speaks somewhat to the film’s entire gimmicky premise without being terribly…
New This Week How Green Was My Valley had its world premiere at the Rivoli Theatre on Broadway between 49th and 50th streets on October 28, 1941. It wouldn’t open in Los Angeles until January 8, 1942 in a year when the cutoff for Oscar consideration was January 12 instead of December 31 of the…
Page Revisions: (March 22, 2020) Original Release Date: March 13, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A New York detective investigates the death of his daughter who was murdered while on her honeymoon in London; he recruits the help of a Scandinavian journalist when other couples throughout Europe suffer a similar fate.” Poster Rating: D+ SEE ALL…