Film Preview: Transplant (2026)
Looking at Film from Every Angle
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Precursor: 55th American Cinema Editors Nominations (2015)
The American Cinema Editors have announced their nominees for the best edited films of the year. Once again, small, deliberately paced films are largely forgotten while big action spectacles are given prominent placement. They split out comedy editing because of the different constraints. Maybe it’s time to pull action films out into their own category.…
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88th Oscars: Hopefuls Update, Pre-Guild – Part 1
The first guild to announce every year is the Screen Actors Guild, which now reveals their nominees in early December (this year it was on Dec. 9, 2015). Their reasoning is that with the nominees in place, work can begin on preparing their annual telecast. This is a perfectly understandable decision, but it does create…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 4 (2016)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died
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Precursor: 50th National Society of Film Critics Awards (2015)
Another award for Spotlight carried without its director, who almost won the balloting, but failed to appear on a majority of ballots. Other than that, this group’s appreciation for Creed is a bit surprising and the closeness of the races is evinced by the fact that only three categories had a hefty number of points…
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Film Preview: Ice Age: Collison Course (2016)
Page Revisions: (January 3, 2016) Original (March 27, 2016) New Trailers (#2 & #3) / New Posters (#3-#6) (July 3, 2016) New Trailer (#4) / New Posters (#7-#12) (July 17, 2016) New Poster (#13) Release Date: July 26, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Scrat’s epic pursuit of his elusive acorn catapults him outside of Earth, where…
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Film Preview: Wazir (2016)
Page Revisions: (January 3, 2016) Original Release Date: January 8, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “‘Wazir’ is a tale of two unlikely friends, a wheelchair-bound chess grandmaster and a brave ATS officer. Brought together by grief and a strange twist of fate, the two men decide to help each other win the biggest games of their…
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Film Preview: The Treasure (2016)
Page Revisions: (January 3, 2016) Original Release Date: January 8, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Costi leads a peaceful life. At night he likes to read his 6-year-old son stories, to help him sleep. Their favourite is Robin Hood. Costi sees himself as the hero – righter of wrongs and defender of the oppressed. One evening,…
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Film Preview: Anesthesia (2016)
Page Revisions: (January 3, 2016) Original Release Date: January 8, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor.” Poster Rating: C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: Simple design that’s visually appealing, but contextually and constructively unoriginal. Trailer Rating: C+ SEE ALL TRAILERS BELOW…
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Film Preview: The Masked Saint (2016)
Page Revisions: (January 3, 2016) Original Release Date: January 8, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “”The Masked Saint” is based on a true story about one pastor’s mission to help his community by risking his identity and returns to his former life as a wrestler. The triumphant story follows one man’s journey and struggle between helping…
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Film Preview: The Forest (2016)
Page Revisions: (January 3, 2016) Original Release Date: January 8, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A young woman searches for her twin sister in a Japanese forest only to find herself surrounded by paranormal forces.” Poster Rating: B+ / C- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1) This is one of the more interesting designs for a…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 3 (2016)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died
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Film Preview: Some Kind of Beautiful (2015)
Page Revisions: (December 27, 2015) Original Release Date: August 21, 2015 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A drama about a Cambridge poetry professor who begins to re-evaluate his life of Byronic excess.” Poster Rating: D / D+ / D / F SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1-#4) There’s little point going into detail about these execrable designs,…
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Eyeing the Truth: Jan. 2016
Best of Enemies (Netflix) It goes without saying that the Buckley/Vidal debates of 1968, which are the subject of Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon’s documentary Best of Enemies, have gone largely forgotten today. This is shocking because the debates, as this film so gracefully argues, were a major turning point in American political rhetoric. This…
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