• Film Preview: Demon Slayer: Kimtesu no Yaiba – To the Hashira Training (2024)

    Film Preview: Demon Slayer: Kimtesu no Yaiba – To the Hashira Training (2024)

    Page Revisions: (January 28, 2024) Original Release Date: February 23, 2024 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Tanjiro undergoes rigorous training with the Stone Hashira, Himejima, in his quest to become a Hashira. Meanwhile, Muzan continues to search for Nezuko and Ubuyashiki.” Poster Rating: C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1, C) A chaos of characters who will…

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  • Oscar History: February 3 (2024)

    Oscar History: February 3 (2024)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1909: Dorothy Spencer (93 at death)   {4 Noms, 0 Wins}      Oscar Nominations: Editing 1932: Peggy Ann Garner (52 at death)   {0 Noms, 1 Win}      Oscar Win: Special/Honorary 1936: James Bridges (57 at death)   {2 Noms, 0 Wins}      Oscar Nominations: Original Screenplay, Adapted Screenplay 1938: Victor Buono (43…

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  • Film Preview: Hit Man (2024)

    Film Preview: Hit Man (2024)

    Page Revisions: (January 28, 2024) Original (April 28, 2024) New Trailer (#2) — New Poster (#1) (May 19, 2024) New Posters (#2-#3) Release Date: June 7, 2024 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A professor moonlighting as a hit man of sorts for his city police department, descends into dangerous, dubious territory when he finds himself attracted to…

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  • The Friday Face-Off, The Ultimate List – Week #86

    The Friday Face-Off, The Ultimate List – Week #86

    The Ultimate List Face-Off event has now begun. We will be using Google Forms to process these polls due to their extensiveness and the ease of creating the polls. For more information on how the game works, click here. Here are this week’s batch: GOOGLE POLL. Loading…

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  • The Ultimate List Poll #86

    The Ultimate List Poll #86

    We’re looking back at all of the Oscar winners and selecting what films and performances and comparing them to one another. The most effective way to do that is pit each winner against each other winner. This long-running series will ultimately result in a final ranking of every winner in every category (except the documentary…

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  • Oscar History: February 2 (2024)

    Oscar History: February 2 (2024)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1882: Anne Bauchens (85 at death)   {4 Noms, 1 Win}      Oscar Nominations: Editing      Oscar Win: Editing 1886: Frank Lloyd (74 at death)   {4 Noms, 2 Wins}      Oscar Nominations: Directing      Oscar Wins: Directing      Academy President #6: 1934-35, 1 term 1902: Wallace Kelley (80 at death)   {1 Nom, 0…

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  • Film Preview: Cabrini (2024)

    Film Preview: Cabrini (2024)

    Page Revisions: (January 28, 2024) Original Release Date: March 8, 2024 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Cabrini charts the rise of a poor audacious woman who became one of the great entrepreneurs of the 19th Century – Through her willpower, courage and business skill, overcame sexism and violent anti-Italian bigotry in 19th century New York.” Poster Rating:…

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  • Oscar Profile: Alexander Payne

    Oscar Profile: Alexander Payne

    Born February 10, 1961in Omaha, Nebraska, Alexander Constantine Papadopoulos, known professionally as Alexander Payne, is the son of the owners of Omaha’s legendary Virginia Café, a popular restaurant founded by his paternal grandfather.  He is the youngest of three brothers. Payne was educated at the prestigious Brownell-Talbot Elementary School, Lewis and Clark Junior High, Creighton…

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  • Calendar Preview: February

    Calendar Preview: February

    Precursors to the Academy Awards come in many different forms and they can appear all year from festivals and national awards to critics groups and other organizations. Here’s what’s coming up this month. FEBRUARY Festivals Thursday, Feb. 15 – Berlin Film Festival (Festival) (Official) Nominations Thursday, Feb. 1 – ASCAP (Nominations) (Unconfirmed) Sunday, Feb. 4…

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  • Review: All of Us Strangers (2023)

    Review: All of Us Strangers (2023)

    All of Us Strangers Rating Director Andrew Haigh Screenplay Andrew Haigh Length 1h 45m Starring Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Carter John Grout, Jamie Bell, Claire Foy MPAA Rating R Original Preview Click Here Review Grief can be a powerful emotion that lingers long after the loss that spawned it. All of Us Strangers explores how…

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  • Poll: Re-Awarding Best Visual Effects, 2011

    Poll: Re-Awarding Best Visual Effects, 2011

    Return Links Polls Re-Awarding Best Visual Effects, 2011 Now that we’ve finished rebuilding the nomination slate between 1997 and 2016 (we’ll do subsequent years after this series has completed), we will take those rebuilt slates and pick a new winner from among the nominees. In our fifth pass, we take a look at the new…

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  • Oscar History: February 1 (2024)

    Oscar History: February 1 (2024)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1893: David Boehm (69 at death)   {1 Nom, 0 Wins}      Oscar Nomination: Motion Picture Story 1894: John Ford (79 at death)   {6 Noms, 4 Wins}      Oscar Nominations: Picture, Directing      Oscar Wins: Directing 1901: Clark Gable (59 at death)   {3 Noms, 1 Win}      Oscar Nominations: Actor      Oscar Win:…

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  • Film Preview: Stopmotion (2024)

    Film Preview: Stopmotion (2024)

    Page Revisions: (January 28, 2024) Original (February 18, 2024) New Poster (#1) Release Date: February 23, 2024 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A stop-motion animator struggles to control her demons after the loss of her overbearing mother.” Poster Rating: B- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1, B-) The figure of the trailer living in a hallowed-out shell…

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  • 2024 Sundance Film Festival: Schedule

    2024 Sundance Film Festival: Schedule

    We’re going to try do do a bit more general festival coverage here, starting with the revelation of this year’s Sundance Film Festival entries. Below is their official press release, far later than is relevant since the festival just wrapped up on Sunday. Still, it’s interesting to see what films are in competition as they…

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  • Looking at the Weekend: Feb. 2-4, 2024

    Looking at the Weekend: Feb. 2-4, 2024

    Argylle should break the recent spate of poor opening weekends. OTHER RELEASES We are only looking at films that have had trailers released on Rotten Tomatoes’ trailer YouTube Channels. Below are some other films that are releasing this weekend that we haven’t considered. Bushman (Limited) Daytime Nightmare (Limited) Departing Seniors (Limited) Disco Boy (Limited) The…

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