Looking at Film from Every Angle

Month: January 2012

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 24

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.

  • Trailer Watch: In Darkness

    It’s hard to go wrong with Agnieska Holland. In Darkness Plot Summary: A Polish man finds hiding places in the sewers for Jews attempting to escape the rise of the Nazi’s in Poland. Release Date: February 10, 2012 Poster Trailer Rating: C+ Commentary: It reminds me a bit of the overly simplistic sales approach used…

  • Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 8

    As the precursor awards continue unabated through the month of December, I’m going to be providing a weekly update highlighting the films that have won and lost momentum through the precursor awards (this will be in place of my prior weekly article “Oscar Preview”. Today, we look back at the results of the New York…

  • Oscar Morning: The Article (2011)

    FOR AN OSCAR MORNING TRACKING SHEET, CLICK HERE. My predictions are in BOLD. On Tuesday morning, January 24, 2012, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be announcing its nominees for the 84th Annual Academy Awards. It will be broadcast live at just after 5:30a PST (6:30a MST, 7:30a CST, 8:30a EST). This…

  • 84th Predictions: Final Nominations Predictions

    The time for hemming, hawing and vacillating is complete. Tomorrow, the nominations for the 84th Academy Awards will be revealed. Without much time left, we’re giving to you our final predictions for this years awards. It’s interesting to see all the differences between our predictions over the past several months begin to coalesce into a…

  • The Morning After: Jan. 23, 2012

    Welcome to The Morning After, where I share with you what I’ve seen over the past week either in film or television. On the film side, if I have written a full length review already, I will post a link to that review. Otherwise, I’ll give a brief snippet of my thoughts on the film…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 23

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Ceremonies 2007: 79th Annual Academy Awards   (Nominations Announcement) {for the films of 2006}

  • Poll: What Are You Most Anticipating? (Feb. 2012)

    Return Links Most Anticipating? Poll Archive What Are You Most Anticipating? (Feb. 2012) What film releasing in February 2012 are you most anticipating? Public OpinionView Results

  • The Inbox (Jan. 14-20, 2012)

    Every week, I get several press releases, screening invitations and other notifications from a handful of studio contacts. While I won’t be sharing any information regarding my screening invites, some of the press releases might be of interest to my readers, so I thought I’d start sharing them in toto with all of you. These…

  • Weekend Preview: Jan. 27-29, 2012

    There are six new releases this week. We have previews for four of them below.

  • Precursor: 16th Online Film & Television Assoc. Nominations (2011)

    In the sea of Oscar prognosticators masquerading as critics groups, the one group I would have expected to be more in line with the current Oscar dialogue was the Online Film & Television Association which has positioned itself as one of the prime prognosticators in the precursor field. So, imagine how refreshing it was to…

  • Precursor: 23rd Producers Guild of America Awards (2011)

    Last night, the Producers Guild of America announced their award winners pushing Oscar season into a new tone with the first guild awards of the year. When commercially successful films like The Help and Bridesmaids lose out to a commercially unsuccessful film like The Artist, the race is pretty much over. Although the DGA will…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 22

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Our Site Milestones 2010: The Oscar Guy Became Cinema Sight (2)

  • Oscar Week in Review: January 15-21, 2012

    Oscar News At the 69th Golden Globes last weekend, The Artist proved to be the night’s biggest winner, taking 3 awards including Best Picture – Comedy and Best Actor-Comedy (Jean Dujardin). The Descendants picked up 2 awards for Best Picture – Drama and Best Actor – Drama for George Clooney. The Academy released the nine eligible films…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 21

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.

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