Every week, I get several press releases, screening invitations and other notifications from a handful of studio contacts. While I won’t be sharing any information regarding my screening invites, some of the press releases might be of interest to my readers, so I thought I’d start sharing them in toto with all of you. These…
Poster Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: October 25, 2013 Synopsis: From IMDb: “86-year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companion: his 8 year-old grandson, Billy.” Poster: B- (3) Review: The three posters together represent an astute marketing effort that focuses on the film’s central…
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: February 15, 2013 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Religious conspiracy collides with urban crime in a story told from multiple perspectives.” Poster: C Review: A jumbled visual mess, the design tries to pull in elements of a number of more successful (and even less successful) designs and ends up as a mostly…
Every week, we’ll take a look back 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 years into the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office that weekend historically. All data is taken from Box Office Mojo. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees…
We started over at the beginning of August 2013, but with a new, more streamlined methodology to collecting votes. Just choose one selection in each of the ten categories below. Our first few weeks will be to select winners in cases of ties or in years where multiple categories existed for each discipline. After that,…
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: October 11, 2013 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Two roommates deathly afraid of ghosts both fall in love with a girl who believes their home is haunted.” Poster: C+ Review: Trying to loosely engage the Scary Movie audience and simultaneously entice Hispanic audiences only makes for a muddied affair that has too…
Here are the results of last week’s poll. Seven Samurai (The Magnificent Seven) Lust for Life Anastasia Umberto D. Friendly Persuasion The Bad Seed Seven Samurai wins and goes into my queue.
Born April 20, 1949 in Cloquet, Minnesota to a teacher/traveling salesman and his wife, Jessica Lange was the third of four children. The future actress received an art scholarship from the University of Minnesota in 1967 where she met and began dating photographer, Paco Grande. After marrying him in 1970, Lange left college to pursue…
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