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. All data is collected from Box Office Mojo. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees during that weekend at the…
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.
Before most of the year-end releases have been seen, the Gotham Awards announce nominations and even awards, suggesting that the Oscar race has begun, but being too early to be reflective. The Favourite was the only of their Best Picture nominees last year to make the final list. Films like The Farewell, Marriage Story, and…
Return Links Polls Remaking Best Production Design, 2007 In our third pass of the Oscar nominees from 1997 through 2016, we take a look at the nominees for Best Production Design. Each week, we’ll present a list of contenders from which you can select five to make up the Best Production Design slate. There will…
Page Revisions: (October 20, 2019) Original (January 12, 2020) New Posters (#2-#12) Release Date: January 17, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A physician discovers that he can talk to animals.” Poster Rating: C+ / B- (9) / C+ / B SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1) With all of the cute animals doing the design’s heavy…
Page Revisions: (October 20, 2019) Original Release Date: December 6, 2019 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A troubled college freshman, Luke, suffers a violent family trauma and resurrects his childhood imaginary friend Daniel to help him cope.” Poster Rating: C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: There’s a faint hint of 80s horror poster aesthetics here, but the…
Five years ago, we wrapped up a long-running feature where visitors submitted their five favorites in a specific category each week. While I’m not bringing back THAT particular feature, I am reviving the title for a new feature that I intend to release weekly on Thursdays. This new feature will be my list of 5…
Born June 20, 1931 in Lowell, Massachusetts, Olympia Dukakis is the daughter of Greek immigrants. She is a first cousin of 1988 Presidential candidate Michael Dukakis (born 1933). Dukakis majored in physical therapy at Boston University, graduating with a BA. She practiced as a therapist during the polio epidemic, later returning to Boston University where…