It’s Halloween, time for a ghost story. The Criterion Collection obliges with a first-rate 4K UHD upgrade of Alejandro Amenabar’s 2001 horror classic, The Others. Reminiscent of Jack Clayton’s The Innocents of forty years earlier, based on Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw, as well as Robert Wise’s 1963 version of Shirley Jackson’s The…
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…
Page Revisions: (October 22, 2023) Original Release Date: November 17, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Two lonely people who meet each other by chance in the Helsinki night and try to find the first love of their lives.” Poster Rating: C / C / C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1) The giant lettering is oppressive…
Page Revisions: (October 22, 2023) Original (November 19, 2023) New Poster (#1) Release Date: November 24, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “An attorney with a military past hunts down the gang who killed his wife and brother and took his daughter.” Poster Rating: C+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: The poster has a lot of empty…
Page Revisions: (October 29, 2023) Original Release Date: November 4, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Seire is the period of twenty-one days in which people are supposed to take utmost care in their behaviors and strangers are not allowed to visit to protect a newborn baby from bad luck. The film SEIRE takes an idea from…
Page Revisions: (October 29, 2023) Original Release Date: November 3, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A decades-spanning exploration of a woman’s life in Mississippi and an ode to the generations of people, places, and ineffable moments that shape us.” Poster Rating: C- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: There isn’t enough context in the trailer to explain…
Page Revisions: (October 22, 2023) Original Release Date: December 1, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A young Iranian mother and her six-year-old daughter find refuge in an Australian women’s shelter during the two weeks of the Iranian New Year (Nowruz).” Poster Rating: C- / C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1) The background is dull and…