As the precursor awards continue unabated through the month of December, I’m going to be providing a weekly update highlighting the films that have won and lost momentum through the precursor awards (this will be in place of my prior weekly article “Oscar Preview”. Today, we look back at the results of the New York…
The ACE, not known for their Oscar accuracy (even when picking 16 nominees across four categories), have made a few unusual choices (like the very dramatic My Week with Marilyn for Comedy/Musical), but few of the choices are actual surprises. With this nod, The Descendants solidifies its place in the Oscar race as it wasn’t…
Welcome to The Morning After, where I share with you what I’ve seen over the past week either in film or television. On the film side, if I have written a full length review already, I will post a link to that review. Otherwise, I’ll give a brief snippet of my thoughts on the film…
So far, February isn’t looking too exciting. The only film I’m excited to see is The Woman in Black and the rest are mostly films I will never watch with a handful I’ll have to go see with friends and a few that I am curious about, but probably won’t see in the theater. February,…
The Golden Globes have now been awarded. There are some muddied waters and a lot of spread-the-word mentality. None of the award winners were especially unlikely, nor were any of them likely to give us a hint of who the Oscar winners will be. So much good this year makes for an interesting awards season,…
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…
The Golden Globe awards will be announced tonight. I’ll be live tweeting the event and updating the winners post here on Cinema Sight. Drop by and watch the updates if you can catch them live and feel free to discuss them in the comments section or in the forums. Check out Twitter if you want…
Oscar News The Directors Guild of America, traditionally one of the best precursors to the Oscars, announced their nominations this week. Their feature film honorees were Woody Allen, David Fincher, Michael Hazanavicious, Alexander Payne and Martin Scorsese. The Academy announced their shortlist for Best Makeup. The seven films that will compete for nomination are Albert Nobbs, Anonymous,…
The lack of originality in sequel titles these days is…reflective of the lack of originality in many of the sequels these days. The Expendables Plot Summary: A group of washed up mercenaries are pulled back together again in this sequel to the hit action remake. Release Date: August 17, 2012 Poster Trailer Rating: C+ Commentary:…