• The Contenders: June Retrospective/August Forecast

    The Contenders: June Retrospective/August Forecast

    We’re looking at Oscar contenders as they release and trying to determine which films have potential and which have wasted it. Let’s look back at the month of June and see what films succeeded and faltered. Then we’ll look forward to August and see what has some potential. Wesley Lovell’s Thoughts June Retrospective With June…

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  • Poll: What Are You Watching? (Jul. 19-21, 2024)

    Poll: What Are You Watching? (Jul. 19-21, 2024)

    Return Links Polls What Are You Watching? Jul. 19-21, 2024)

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  • Oscar History: July 17 (2024)

    Oscar History: July 17 (2024)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1898: Osmond Borradaile (100 at death)   {0 Noms, 0 Wins} 1899: James Cagney (86 at death)   {3 Noms, 1 Win}      Oscar Nominations: Actor      Oscar Win: Actor 1905: William Gargan (73 at death)   {1 Nom, 0 Wins}      Oscar Nomination: Supporting Actor 1909: James W. Sullivan (65 at death)…

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  • Film Preview: We Live in Time (2024)

    Film Preview: We Live in Time (2024)

    Page Revisions: (July 14, 2024) Original (October 6, 2024) New Poster (#1) — Title Change (was “We Live in a Time”) Release Date: October 11, 2024 Synopsis: From IMDb: “An up-and-coming chef and a recent divorcée find their lives forever changed when a chance encounter brings them together, in a decade-spanning, deeply moving romance.” Poster…

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  • Film Preview: Duchess (2024)

    Film Preview: Duchess (2024)

    Page Revisions: (July 14, 2024) Original Release Date: August 9, 2024 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Follows a tough, working-class, petty criminal who morphs into an anti-heroine to be reckoned with in a murky underworld, in the treacherous world of diamond smuggling.” Poster Rating: – SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: There was no poster immediately available for…

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  • Home Viewing with Peter #889

    Home Viewing with Peter #889

    Warner Home Video has released a 4K UHD upgrade of Jan de Bont’s 1996 disaster film, Twister. The film opens in 1969 during a devastating tornado that destroys a small Oklahoma town culminating in the death of the father of a young girl as he is sucked out of the family’s storm cellar. The girl…

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  • Oscar History: July 16 (2024)

    Oscar History: July 16 (2024)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1901: Leon Shamroy (72 at death)   {18 Noms, 4 Wins}      Oscar Nominations: Cinematography, Cinematography (Black-and-White), Cinematography (Color)      Oscar Wins: Cinematography (Color) 1902: Andrew L. Stone (96 at death)   {1 Nom, 0 Wins}      Oscar Nomination: Original Screenplay 1907: Barbara Stanwyck (82 at death)   {4 Noms, 1 Win}      Oscar…

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  • Film Preview: Mothers’ Instinct (2024)

    Film Preview: Mothers’ Instinct (2024)

    Page Revisions: (July 14, 2024) Original (July 21, 2024) New Release Date (changed from 8.13.2024) Release Date: July 26, 2024 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Alice and Celine live a traditional lifestyle with successful husbands and sons of the same age. Life’s perfect harmony is suddenly shattered after a tragic accident. Guilt, suspicion and paranoia combine to…

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  • Film Preview: Gladiator II (2024)

    Film Preview: Gladiator II (2024)

    Page Revisions: (July 14, 2024) Original (September 29, 2024) New Trailer (#2) — New Posters (#8-#11) (November 17, 2024) New Posters (#12-#22) (November 24, 2024) New Trailer (#3) — New Poster (#23) Release Date: November 22, 2024 Synopsis: From IMDb: “After his home is conquered by the tyrannical Emperors who now lead Rome, Lucius is…

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  • Box Office History (Week 28, 2024)

    Box Office History (Week 28, 2024)

    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: Jul. 19-21, 2024

    Weekend Preview: Jul. 19-21, 2024

    Below are five previews for films opening next weekend.   Oddity (Wide) Cinema Sight Preview     Twisters (Wide) Cinema Sight Preview     Before Dawn (Limited) Cinema Sight Preview     Crossing (Limited) Cinema Sight Preview     Widow Clicquot (Limited) Cinema Sight Preview  

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  • Poll: Now That You’ve Seen “Fly Me to the Moon”

    Poll: Now That You’ve Seen “Fly Me to the Moon”

    Return Links Polls Now That You’ve Seen Fly Me to the Moon…?

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  • Oscar History: July 15 (2024)

    Oscar History: July 15 (2024)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1888: Nathan Levinson (64 at death)   {24 Noms, 4 Wins}      Oscar Nominations: Sound/Sound Mixing, Special Effects      Oscar Wins: Sound/Sound Mixing, Special/Honorary, Sci-Tech Award – Type III (Certificate) 1889: Marjorie Rambeau (80 at death)   {2 Noms, 0 Wins}      Oscar Nominations: Supporting Actress 1893: William Dieterle (79 at death)…

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  • Film Preview: Widow Clicquot (2024)

    Film Preview: Widow Clicquot (2024)

    Page Revisions: (July 14, 2024) Original Release Date: July 19, 2024 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The story behind the Veuve Clicquot champagne family and business that began in the late 18th century.” Poster Rating: C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1, C) The yellow fabric fluttering in the wind is dynamic but uninteresting while the simply-dressed…

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  • Film Preview: Before Dawn (2024)

    Film Preview: Before Dawn (2024)

    Page Revisions: (July 14, 2024) Original Release Date: July 19, 2024 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The journey of fictional WA outback kid Jim Collins and his battalion on the Western Front.” Poster Rating: C+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1, C+) While it does put the action in a battlefield and the central figure sets the…

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