Looking at the Weekend: Nov. 6-8, 2026
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Oscar History: January 7 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1873: Adolph Zukor (103 at death) {0 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Win: Special/Honorary 1906: Herb Magidson (79 at death) {3 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Original Song Oscar Win: Original Song 1908: Eliot Daniel (89 at death) {2 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Original Song 1910: Frank…
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Eligible Films for 97th Oscars
Interesting that despite recent branding, they are calling them the “Academy Awards” still in the press release. That’s neither here nor there. What’s interesting is which of the 323 films didn’t meet Best Picture eligibility requirements. All of this year’s Best Picture contenders are there, so there’s no concern of anything major missing out. 323…
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Film Preview: Queen of the Ring (2025)
Page Revisions: (January 5, 2025) Original (February 2, 2025) New Trailer (#2) — New Poster (#1) Release Date: March 7, 2025 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The biopic of Mildred Burke, the first ever million dollar female athlete and champion pro-wrestler who pioneered the sport in a time when all girl wrestling was banned in most of…
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72nd Sound Editors Guild Nominations
With two films earning 3 nominations and six earning two, we can clearly see where the excitement is. While the Motion Picture Sound Editors no longer have a forecast for the Sound Editing category that the Academy got rid of, they still give us an idea of how the sound community feels ahead of the…
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Rating the Nominees, Group 1, #10
Over the next several weeks, we’ll be looking at the quality of the Oscar nominees. In most of the major categories, you’ll be asked to rank the nominees in a specific category on a scale from 1 to 10 with ten being best, 1 being worst. Even if you don’t like a movie, please be…
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Rating the Nominees, Group 1, #10
Over the next several weeks, we’ll be looking at the quality of the Oscar nominees. In most of the major categories, you’ll be asked to rank the nominees in a specific category on a scale from 1 to 10 with ten being best, 1 being worst. Even if you don’t like a movie, please be…
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7th Greater WNY Critics Awards
Going way out on a limb with their love of Challengers, this group avoided most of the other consensus picks by other orgs. Awards Tallies (4) Challengers (3) Sing Sing (2) A Real Pain (1) Hard Truths, His Three Daughters, Nickel Boys, Nosferatu, The Wild Robot The Awards Best Picture Challengers Best Animated Feature The…
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Box Office History (Week 1, 2025)
Every week, we’ll take a look back at how Oscar-nominated films performed at the box office. Due to the lack of data prior to 1980, some of these early years may have minimal information. From the mid-1990s back to 1980, the data exists, but is sometimes spotty. Everything after that should be accurate. We’ll look…
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Weekend Preview: Jan. 10-12, 2025
Below are seven previews for films opening next weekend. Den of Thieves 2: Pantera (Wide) Cinema Sight Preview Better Man (Expanding) Cinema Sight Preview Hard Truths (Expanding) Cinema Sight Preview The Last Showgirl (Expanding) Cinema Sight Preview Black Diamond (Limited) Cinema Sight Preview Extremely Unique Dynamic (Limited) Cinema Sight…
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Poll: Now That You’ve Seen 2024’s Major Releases
Return Links Polls Now That You’ve Seen 2024’s Major Releases…?
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Oscar History: January 6 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1891: Rochus Gliese (87 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Art Direction/Production Design 1913: Jack Leonard (41 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Motion Picture Story 1913: Loretta Young (87 at death) {2 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Actress Oscar Win: Actress 1918:…
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82nd Golden Globe Awards
It was a big day for films from foreign nations. Emilia Pérez, Flow, and I’m Still Here won big prizes while The Brutalist led the English-language fare. There were no huge surprises, though we all thought things might go differently on the comedy side. This definitely indicates a changed Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The influx…
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Contender: Evil Does Not Exist (2025)
CLICK HERE for more details about the Contenders series. CLICK HERE to see a list of other films in the 2024 Contenders series. Exhibiting Forgiveness was added to this list based on the following criteria: 80+ MetaCritic Type of Contender: Narrow Contender Factor: 70.8 out of 100 (Stage 5 of 5 complete) Stage 1 –…
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Rating the Nominees, Group 7, #9
Over the next several weeks, we’ll be looking at the quality of the Oscar nominees. In most of the major categories, you’ll be asked to rank the nominees in a specific category on a scale from 1 to 10 with ten being best, 1 being worst. Even if you don’t like a movie, please be…
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Rating the Nominees, Group 7, #9
Over the next several weeks, we’ll be looking at the quality of the Oscar nominees. In most of the major categories, you’ll be asked to rank the nominees in a specific category on a scale from 1 to 10 with ten being best, 1 being worst. Even if you don’t like a movie, please be…
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