Month: March 2020
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Trailer Watch: Saint Maud (2020) Updated
New Trailer (#2) / New Poster (#2) Saint Maud, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for all of the new content as well as the original.
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 10, 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 #30
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 6 (2020)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Our Site Milestones Born Died Released Our Site Milestones 2011: Weekend Preview (9)
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Poll: Remaking Best Supporting Actress, 2006
Return Links Polls Remaking Best Supporting Actress, 2006 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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Film Preview: Charm City Kings (2020)
Page Revisions: (March 1, 2020) Original Release Date: April 10, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Fourteen-year-old Mouse desperately wants to join the Midnight Clique, an infamous group of Baltimore dirt-bike riders who rule the summertime streets.” Poster Rating: C+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: The color scheme is overbearing and the structure is unimpressive, but it…
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5 Favorites Redux #19: Favorite Pixar Films
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. Over time, doing duplicate lists will be a challenge, especially how frequently Pixar and…
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Oscar Profile #486: William Goldman
Born August 12, 1931 in Chicago, Illinois, William Goldman was the son of Marion and businessman Maurice Goldman. He was the younger brother of fellow writer James Goldman (1927-1998), best known as the Oscar winning writer of The Lion in Winter. Goldman, received a B.A. degree from Oberlin College in 1952, and was drafted into…
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This Day in Oscar History: March 5 (2020)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Ceremonies
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Poll: What Are You Watching? (Mar. 6-8, 2020)
Return Links Polls What Are You Watching? (Mar. 6-8, 2020)
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Film Preview: Resistance (2020)
Page Revisions: (March 1, 2020) Original Release Date: March 27, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The story of a group of Jewish Boy Scouts who worked with the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.” Poster Rating: – Review: There was no poster immediately available for my review. Should…
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2019 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 4, 2019 Joker Oscar Prospects: What I said: “Good. There’s talk of Joaquin Phoenix being an Oscar contender for this role. He would be the second…
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Looking at the Weekend: Mar. 6-8, 2020
There will be nothing stopping the latest Pixar effort from topping this week’s box office chart and the year’s biggest opening to date is likely. Our Highest Rated Films: Onward, Sorry We Missed You Our Best Awards Ratings: Onward (Oscars) OTHER LIMITED RELEASES Baaghi 3 (Limited) Bacurau (Limited) The Booksellers (Limited) The Burnt Orange Heresy…
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Review: Missing Link (2019)
Missing Link Rating Director Chris Butler Screenplay Chris Butler Length 1h 33m Starring Hugh Jackman, David Walliams, Stephen Fry, Matt Lucas, Zach Galifanakis, Timothy Olymphant, Zoe Saldana, Amrita Acharia, Ching Valdes-Aran, Emma Thompson MPAA Rating PG for action/peril and some mild rude humor Original Preview Click Here
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This Day in Oscar History: March 4 (2020)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
