On Sundays, we list the weekend’s upcoming films along with previews of trailers and posters. On Wednesdays, we preview all of the upcoming new wide and limited releases hitting the theaters the coming weekend. On Fridays, we’ll now tell you what you should see. We pose two questions each week to our contributors and their…
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Time for another week of the Friday Face-Off. It’s a simple affair in which you are given a choice between two Oscar winners in specific categories. You choose which of the two is best. When the game concludes, we’ll have the ultimate winner in each category. For example: If you were to choose between Oscar…
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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…
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Nothing major occurred (yes, they are still sticking to their convoluted Best Picture rules) with yesterday’s announcement of the rules changes for the 85th Academy Awards. The biggest news is that hairstylists will finally be given credit in the Makeup category, which will be renamed Best Makeup and Hairstyling. This is what the British Academy…
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Return Links Best Visual Effects Poll Archive Best Visual Effects Poll: 1968 – 1972 Cinema Sight Asks: Which Best Visual Effects winner is best? Public OpinionPoll Results
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Bradley Cooper in dreads? Whose bright idea was that? Hit & Run Plot Summary: A bank robbing wheelman in witness protection is located by the men he turned states evidence on and must escape their clutches or end up dead. Release Date: August 24, 2012 Poster Trailer Rating: D+ Commentary: This isn’t Kerouac, though this…
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Here are the results of last week’s poll. Hud (1963) Anatomy of a Murder (1959) Becket (1964) The Defiant Ones (1958) Divorce-Italian Style (1962) The Pawnbroker (1965) Alfie (1966) Lilies of the Field (1963) Hud wins and goes into my queue.
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Born May 29, 1904 in Charleston, Illinois, the only child of Frank and Jennie Toland, Gregg Toland would grow up to become the first cinematographer whose name was well known by the public. Both John Ford (with The Long Voyage Home) and Orson Welles (with Citizen Kane) would insist that he be given credit on…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Our Site Milestones 2010: The Morning After (2)
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Return Links What Are You Watching? Poll Archive What Are You Watching? (Jun. 29-Jul. 2, 2012) Cinema Sight Asks: What are you watching? (Jun. 29-Jul. 2, 2012) Public OpinionPoll Results
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Thankfully, this is the sunset of this franchise. Breaking Dawn, Part 2 (trailer #2) Plot Summary: The final chapter in The Twilight Saga finds Bella testing out her new vampire powers and learning what it’s like to live life as she decided. Release Date: November 16, 2012 Poster Trailer Rating: None Commentary: Poster was a…
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For a full list of rules, click here: 2012 Summer Box Office Predictions Game Rules. Submit Your Predictions for This Week Top Ten Films at the U.S. Box Office of the week in order from most money to least. Individual monetary predictions for each film. Final box office tally for all new wide releases. Awards…
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This weekend should prove which force is strongest at the box office. Toss aside People Like Us, which will appeal to the same target audience as the weekend’s wider release Magic Mike. Mike will test the mettle of women moviegoers; Madea’s Witness Protection will test the perseverance of Tyler Perry’s fans; and Ted will test…
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