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Oscar News The Academy this week announced the winners of this year’s Honorary Oscar Awards: Oscar nominated actor James Earl Jones and Oscar winning makeup artist Dick Smith will win Oscars for lifetime achievement, and Oscar nominee Oprah Winfrey will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. The awards will be presented in November. The Oscars…
The classic board game with no actual plot comes to life in a film that may actually have no plot. Battleship Plot Summary: A big screen adaptation of the classic children’s game. Release Date: May 18, 2012 Poster Trailer Rating: D+ Commentary: I get that this is supposed to symbolize a sinking battleship (much like…
The Academy has lost another luminary. Gordon E. Sawyer Award and John A. Bonner Medal winner Takuo Miyagishima has died. Below is the obituary from Hollywood Reporter. Takuo ‘Tak’ Miyagishima Dies at 83 One of the most esteemed design engineers in the motion picture industry, he made first mechanical drawing for Panavision in 1954. by…
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…
Captain America: The First Avenger Rating Director Joe Johnston Screenplay Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeeley (Comics: Joe Simon, Jack Kirby) Length 124 min. Starring Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell, Sebastian Stan, Tommy Lee Jones, Hugo Weaving, Dominic Cooper, Richard Armitage, Stanley Tucci, Samuel L. Jackson, Toby Jones. MPAA Rating PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and…
A comic heist film starring Eddie Murphy and Ben Stiller. Tower Heist Plot Summary: A group of employees at a swanky penthouse apartment complex are cheated out of their pension money in a ponzi scheme. After the Feds come in and put the culprit under house arrest, a handful of the employees begin plotting to…
Ties have been abundant in recent weeks, so here are the results of last week’s vote, resulting in another tie for first place. At the very bottom of the list, in tenth place, is Six Degrees of Separation with a sad 8 points. Tied for eighth with 12 points each are A Fish Called Wanda…
Born June 30, 1906 in San Diego, California, Anthony Mann was the son of Jewish-Austrian immigrants. Although he began his career as a stage actor, Mann came to Hollywood as a casting director for David O. Selznick Productions. While working for Selznick, he directed screen tests for such films as Gone With the Wind and…