Film Preview: Transplant (2026)
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Film Preview: The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards (2017)
Page Revisions: (October 29, 2017) Original Release Date: October 27, 2017 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Based on short stories from Robert Boswell’s collection, seven vignettes explore the difference between fantasy and reality, memory and history, and the joy and agony of the human condition.” Poster Rating: D+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: Blocky, simplistic, and filled…
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 44, 2017)
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 #223
We are currently working on the losers bracket. Here is this week’s ten (or fewer) face-offs. So, let’s get started.
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This Day in Oscar History: November 3 (2017)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Poll: Remaking Best Actor, 2005
Return Links Polls Remaking Best Actor, 2005 In our second pass of the Oscar nominees from 1997 through 2016, we take a look at the nominees for Best Actor. Each week, we’ll present a list of contenders from which you can select five to make up the Best Actor slate. There will be an “Other”…
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Film Preview: November Criminals (2017)
Page Revisions: (October 29, 2017) Original Release Date: December 8, 2017 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A teenager takes on his own investigation of a murder in Washington D.C.” Poster Rating: D SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: It seems that poster designers are crawling all over themselves to make black-white-and-yellow color schemes played out the way that…
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Oscar Profile #364: Walter Lassally
Born December 18, 1926 in Berlin, Germany to a German father and Polish mother, Walter Lassally’s father was an engineer and industrial filmmaker. Although Protestant by religion, both parents were Jewish by heritage and his father was forced to stop working when the Nazis came to power in 1932. With his father imprisoned in 1938,…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 2 (2017)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Poll: What Are You Watching? (Nov. 3-5, 2017)
Return Links Polls What Are You Watching? (Nov. 3-5, 2017)
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Film Preview: Phantom Thread (2017)
Page Revisions: (October 29, 2017) Original (December 24, 2017) New Poster (#2) Release Date: December 25, 2017 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Set in 1950’s London, Reynolds Woodcock is a renowned dressmaker whose fastidious life is disrupted by a young, strong-willed woman, Alma, who becomes his muse and lover.” Poster Rating: C+ / B- SEE ALL POSTERS…
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Looking at the Weekend: Nov. 3-5, 2017
Thor: Ragnarok will destroy its competition this weekend. The first film opened to a soft $65 million. The second film easily topped it with $85 million. Will there be a twenty-million jump again? I doubt it. I suspect the film will top its prior film for opening weekend, but not move too much further up…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 1 (2017)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Film Preview: Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built (2018)
Page Revisions: (October 29, 2017) Original (January 7, 2018) New Trailer (#2) / New Poster (#2) / Updated Title (changed form “Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built”) Release Date: February 2, 2018 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Eccentric firearm heiress believes she is haunted by the souls of people killed by the Winchester repeating rifle.” Poster Rating:…
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The DVD Report #540
New This Week The Old Dark House is a film with a fascinating history. Newly restored and presented at the 2017 Venice and New York Film Festivals, the Cohen Film Collection Blu-ray release is taken from that 4K restoration. Directed by James Whale between Frankenstein and The Invisible Man, top billing in the film’s original…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 31 (2017)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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