Oscar News The Artist was the big winner at the 84th Academy Awards, taking the top prizes of Best Picture and Best Director. It tied with Hugo for most awards won with 5 apiece. The acting awards went to Jean Dujardin, Meryl Streep, Christopher Plummer and Ocatavia Spencer. Ratings for the Oscar telecast were up 4% from…
I’m hoping the movie is a satisfying sequel, but can we stop pretending these little yellow henchmen are funny? Despicable Me 2 Plot Summary: The sequel to the popular 2010 Steve Carell villainous computer animation film. Release Date: July 3, 2013 Poster Trailer Rating: C Commentary: It doesn’t take much to sell this film since…
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…
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…
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…
There will never again be another Stand and Deliver. But they keep trying…even in other countries. Monsieur Lazhar Plot Summary: A school teacher returning from Algeria finds students ready to be molded, but struggles to find his center after an event in North Africa that left him broken. Release Date: April 13, 2012 Poster Trailer…
Born April 2, 1914 in London, England, Alec Guinness worked in advertising before achieving success as an actor. While studying acting at actress Fay Compton’s school he had a part as extra in 1934’s Evensong but spent the remainder of the decade on stage. A commissioned officer in the Royal Navy during World War II,…
It will never stop. Finding Nemo 3D Plot Summary: The Pixar box office smash returns to the big screen in Disney’s latest post-production conversion and re-release in 3D. Release Date: September 14, 2012 Poster Trailer Rating: None Commentary: Poster was a placeholder at the time this post was written. Rating: C Commentary: Not everyone who…