Month: March 2019
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This Day in Oscar History: March 9 (2019)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Film Preview: To Dust (2019)
Page Revisions: (March 3, 2019) Original Release Date: February 8, 2019 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Shmuel, a Hasidic cantor in Upstate New York, distraught by the untimely death of his wife, struggles to find religious solace, while secretly obsessing over how her body will decay. As a clandestine partnership develops with Albert, a local community college…
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Film Preview: Maze (2019)
Page Revisions: (March 3, 2019) Original Release Date: March 22, 2019 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Inspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP, which was to become the biggest prison escape in Europe since World War II.” Poster Rating: C+ / C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review:…
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 10, 2019)
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…
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The NEW Friday Face-Off #293
We’re nearing completion on this initial batch of Friday Face-Offs. We’ll finish out the losers and winners brackets and once it’s all done, we’ll highlight the full winners in each category. Once that’s done, we’ll try and do a better job of facing things off for a new and more comprehensive go-round. Here are this…
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This Day in Oscar History: March 8 (2019)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Poll: Remaking Best Visual Effects, 2014
Return Links Polls Remaking Best Visual Effects, 2014 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: Lost & Found (2019)
Page Revisions: (March 3, 2019) Original Release Date: March 22, 2019 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Lost and Found’ is a film with 7 interconnecting stories set in and around a lost and found office of an Irish train station.” Poster Rating: – Review: There was no poster immediately available for my review. Should one become available…
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Trailer Watch: Dark Phoenix (2019) Updated
New Trailer (#2) / New Posters (#1-#2) Dark Phoenix, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for all of the new content as well as the original.
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Oscar Profile #434: Rouben Mamoulian
Born October 8, 1897 in Tiflis, Georgia, Russian Empire to Armenian parents, Rouben Mamoulian’s mother was a director of the Armenian Theatre and his father was a bank president. Educated in Tiflis and Paris, he founded a drama studio in Tiflis in 1918. He relocated to England and started directing plays in London in 1922.…
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This Day in Oscar History: March 7 (2019)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Ceremonies
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Poll: What Are You Watching? (Mar. 8-10, 2019)
Return Links Polls What Are You Watching? (Mar. 8-10, 2019)
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Film Preview: Holiday (2019)
Page Revisions: (March 3, 2019) Original Release Date: February 22, 2019 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A love triangle featuring the trophy girlfriend of a petty drug lord, caught up in a web of luxury and violence in a modern dark gangster tale set in the beautiful port city of Bodrum on the Turkish Riviera.” Poster Rating:…
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Trailer Watch: Pokemon: Detective Pikachu (2019) Updated
New Trailer (#2) / New Poster (#2) Pokemon: Detective Pikachu, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for all of the new content as well as the original.
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2018 Oscar Season Preview Wrap-Up: October
Below is a wrap-up of the predictions I made several months ago, an exploration of what succeeded and what failed, and how I observe things to have gone. October 5, 2018 A Star Is Born Oscar Prospects: What I said: “Excellent. The film did amazingly well on the festival circuit and enters the Oscar race…
