Month: March 2019
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This Day in Oscar History: March 22 (2019)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Poll: Remaking Best Visual Effects, 2016
Return Links Polls Remaking Best Visual Effects, 2016 In our third pass of the Oscar nominees from 1997 through 2016, we take a look at the nominees for Best Visual Effects. Each week, we’ll present a list of contenders from which you can select five to make up the Best Visual Effects slate. There will…
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Film Preview: White Chamber (2019)
Page Revisions: (March 17, 2019) Original Release Date: March 29, 2019 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The United Kingdom. Soon. Civil war rages. A woman wakes up in a blindingly white cuboid cell. Using its sophisticated functionality, her captor tortures her for information; information she claims not to have – or does she?” Poster Rating: C /…
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Film Preview: The Chaperone (2019)
Page Revisions: (March 17, 2019) Original Release Date: March 29, 2019 Synopsis: From IMDb: “In the early 1920s, a Kansas woman finds her life forever changed when she accompanies a young dancer on her fame-seeking journey to New York City.” Poster Rating: C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: It’s easy to appreciate the desire to…
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Oscar Profile #436: Greta Garbo
Born September 18, 1905 in Stockholm, Sweden to a mother who later worked in a jam factory and a father who was a laborer, Greta Gustafffson (later Garbo) was the middle of three children in an impoverished family that lived in a slum. Her father became ill during the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1919, began…
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This Day in Oscar History: March 21 (2019)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Ceremonies
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Poll: What Are You Watching? (Mar. 22-24, 2019)
Return Links Polls What Are You Watching? (Mar. 22-24, 2019)
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Film Preview: Diane (2019)
Page Revisions: (March 17, 2019) Original Release Date: March 29, 2019 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Diane fills her days helping others and desperately attempting to bond with her drug-addicted son. As these pieces of her existence begin to fade, she finds herself confronting memories she’d sooner forget than face.” Poster Rating: C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW…
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Film Preview: Long Lost (2019)
Page Revisions: (March 17, 2019) Original (April 21, 2019) New Trailer (#2) Release Date: March 29, 2019 Synopsis: From IMDb: “When Seth receives a mysterious letter inviting him to spend the weekend at a secluded mansion in the country, he soon realizes the people inside the house may know him better than he knows himself.”…
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2019 Spring Season Preview: April
Here we look at the upcoming month’s offerings. April 5, 2019 The Best of Enemies Premise: From IMDb: “Civil rights activist Ann Atwater faces off against C.P. Ellis, Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, in 1971 Durham, North Carolina over the issue of school integration.” Box Office Prospects: $15 M Expectations: Weak. This is…
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Looking at the Weekend: Mar. 22-24, 2019
There’s nothing else new coming out this weekend, so Get Out will definitely take the lead. The question is whether it can perform strongly enough to overcome the third weekend of Captain Marvel, which had a solid 55.7% drop from last weekend. With Jordan Peele’s last film taking in $33 million opening, it will be…
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92nd Oscars: Ten Best Potential Oscar Contenders
Although we won’t be making our first formal Oscar predictions until May, we thought we’d take a look at some of the potential Oscar contenders of the year. Each contributor was asked to submit ten films that they felt were major players for this year’s Oscars. Only one film appears on all four lists, Martin…
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This Day in Oscar History: March 20 (2019)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Ceremonies
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Film Preview: The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2019)
Page Revisions: (March 17, 2019) Original Release Date: April 10, 2019 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Toby, a disillusioned advertising executive, becomes pulled into a world of time jumping fantasy when a Spanish cobbler believes him to be Sancho Panza. He gradually becomes unable to tell dreams from reality.” Poster Rating: C / B- / C+ /…
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Film Preview: Sauvage (2019)
Page Revisions: (March 17, 2019) Original Release Date: April 10, 2019 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Leo is 22 and sells his body on the street for a bit of cash. The men come and go, and he stays right here – longing for love. He doesn’t know what the future will bring. He hits the road.…
