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…
Return Links Polls Remaking Best Actress, 2011 In our third pass of the Oscar nominees from 1997 through 2016, we take a look at the nominees for Best Actress. Each week, we’ll present a list of contenders from which you can select five to make up the Best Actress slate. There will be an “Other”…
Born February 17, 1934 in Derbyshire, England, Alan Bates was the eldest of three sons of an insurance broker and a housewife. Wanting to be an actor from the age of 11, he won a scholarship to RADA (the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts) where his classmates included Albert Finney and Peter O’Toole. After…
New Trailer (#2) / New Posters (#3-#8) Teen Titans Go! To the Movies, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for all of the new content as well as the original.
Melissa McCarthy shows up at the box office in the wake of the third weekend of Avengers: Infinity War. While Warner Bros. might have thought it was valid counter-programming, the latest McCarthy effort doesn’t look like it will hold its own very well against Avengers and will further decrease her ability to be sold as…
Page Revisions: (May 6, 2018) Original (September 9, 2018) New Posters (#3-#8) Release Date: September 14, 2018 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A SIMPLE FAVOR, directed by Paul Feig, centers around Stephanie (Anna Kendrick), a mommy vlogger who seeks to uncover the truth behind her best friend Emily’s (Blake Lively) sudden disappearance from their small town. Stephanie…
Faces Places (Netflix) Faces Places is co-directed by the legendary nonagenarian Agnes Varda and photographer JR, some six decades younger than her. The film is all the better because you feel both of their ages seeping through at every corner: it has the energy of a debut filmmaker and the grace of a great filmmaker’s…
New This Week Winchester from the Spierig Brothers, German born Australia-based directors Michael and Peter Spierig, despite my initial misgivings is an interesting suspense thriller based on an episode in the life of eccentric heiress Sarah Winchester. It’s 1906, and 66-year-old Winchester, played by the enigmatic Helen Mirren, is the subject of a psychiatric examination…