Page Revisions: (August 6, 2017) Original (October 1, 2017) New Poster (#2) Release Date: October 20, 2017 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Stranded after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow covered mountain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous…
Page Revisions: (August 6, 2017) Original (August 13, 2017) New Trailer (#2) / New Posters (#3-#4) (September 10, 2017) New Posters (#5-#6) Release Date: September 15, 2017 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A couple’s relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.” Poster Rating: B+ / B / B+ / B…
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 Picture, 2013 In 1997, I began offering up Oscar Hopefuls, a list of contenders for each category at the Oscars. Today, we start a new series of polls that attempts to rebuild various categories based on what films were nominated, which were hopeful for nominations, and which were honored by…
Born December 5, 1890 in Vienna, Austria, Friedrich Christian Anton Lang, Fritz for short, was one of the most influential film directors of all time yet won no major awards, possibly due to his reputation as a tyrant on film sets. Although trained in Paris in 1913-14 to be a painter, Lang returned to Vienna…
Page Revisions: (August 6, 2017) Original Release Date: August 18, 2017 Synopsis: From IMDb: “In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.…
The Conjuring made a lot of money at the box office in 2013 ($137 million). Its prequel, Annabelle, made less, but still impressive amounts of money ($84 million). The first film’s sequel, The Conjuring 2, was off the original, but higher than the prequel ($102 million). Now, we have the prequel to the prequel, Annabelle:…
Some might say that the rule of the white man has returned again. Before Cheryl Boone Isaacs was elected to lead the Academy in 2013, white men had ruled the Academy for a staggering 30 year streak. Fay Kanin was the previous woman to hold the post from 1979 through 1983. Of the now 36…