Month: March 2020
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This Day in Oscar History: March 15 (2020)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Film Preview: Blue Story (2020)
Page Revisions: (March 8, 2020) Original Release Date: March 20, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Feature adaptation of Rapman’s YouTube series about two young friends who become rivals in a street war.” Poster Rating: C+ / C- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1) The titular blue is here, but it’s not terribly impressive. The design is…
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This Day in Oscar History: March 14 (2020)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Film Preview: Premature (2020)
Page Revisions: (March 8, 2020) Original Release Date: February 21, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Seventeen year old Ayanna meets handsome and mysterious Isaiah in her path towards self-discovery. Her entire world is turned upside down as she travails on the rigorous terrain of young love on the summer before she leaves for college.” Poster Rating:…
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 11, 2020)
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. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees during that weekend at the box office (as well as a section looking…
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The Friday Face-Off Round One #31
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.
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This Day in Oscar History: March 13 (2020)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Poll: Remaking Best Supporting Actress, 2007
Return Links Polls Remaking Best Supporting Actress, 2007 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…
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5 Favorites Redux #20: The Best of Guy Pearce
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. Guy Pearace arrived on the acting scene in 1990 and quickly rose to prominence…
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Oscar Profile #487: Margot Robbie
Born July 2, 1990 in Dalby, Queensland, Australia to Scottish parents, Margot Robbie was one of four children of Sarie Kessler, a physiotherapist, and Doug Robbie, a former farm owner. She and her three siblings, two brothers and a sister, were raised by her single mother with minimal contact with her father. After graduating from…
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This Day in Oscar History: March 12 (2020)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Poll: What Are You Watching? (Mar. 13-15, 2020)
Return Links Polls What Are You Watching? (Mar. 13-15, 2020)
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Film Preview: Connected (2020)
Page Revisions: (March 8, 2020) Original Release Date: September 18, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Katie Mitchell is accepted into the film school of her dreams. Her whole family drives Katie to school together when their plans are interrupted by a tech uprising. The Mitchells will have to work together to save the world.” Poster Rating:…
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Looking at the Weekend: Mar. 13-15, 2020
Four new films go up against the second weekend of Pixar’s Onward and it’s likely that one of them should be able to topple a film that had a rather unimpressive opening for a Pixar feature. Bloodshot is a sci-fi actioner starring Vin Diesel, which has some solid potential. The Hunt was held back from…
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Review: Judy (2019)
Judy Rating Director Rupert Goold Screenplay Tom Edge (Stageplay: Peter Quilter) Length 1h 58m Starring Renée Zellweger, Jessie Buckley, Finn Wittrock, Rufus Sewell, Michael Gambon, Gaia Weiss, Bella Ramsey, Lewin Lloyd, Phil Dunster, Andy Nyman, Gemma-Leah Devereux, Richard Cordery, Darci Shaw, Gus Barry MPAA Rating PG-13 for substance abuse, thematic content, some strong language, and…
