Return Links Polls Remaking Best Directing, 2004 In our fifteenth and final pass of the Oscar nominees from 1997 through 2016, we take a look at the nominees for Best Directing. Each week, we’ll present a list of contenders from which you can select five to make up the Best Directing slate. There will be…
Page Revisions: (May 29, 2022) Original Release Date: July 1, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Following a catastrophe on Earth, the planet is covered in a toxic fog. The crew in the space station, must decide whether to risk their lives to get home and search for survivors, or stay safe in the station’s “algae symbiosis…
Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. Another in the long line of Bruce Willis’ final performances releases this weekend. One…
Best Director Barry Levinson’s Best Picture, Rain Man prevailed over Lawrence Kasdan’s The Accidental Tourist, Stephen Frears’ Dangerous Liaisons, Alan Parker’s Mississippi Burning and Mike Nichols’ Working Girl at the 1988 Oscars. Overlooked were Philip Kaufman’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being, David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers, and Sidney Lumet’s Running on Empty. Non-nominated Bruce Beresford’s Driving…
Page Revisions: (May 29, 2022) Original (May 21, 2023) New Trailer (#2) — New Posters (#1-#2) (July 9, 2023) New Posters (#3-#24) (July 16, 2023) New Trailer (#3) Release Date: July 14, 2023 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Seventh entry in the long-running Mission: Impossible series.” Poster Rating: C / B- / D+ (13) / C /…
There’s nothing to keep Top Gun: Maverick from maintaining the top spot. While this week’s new release is going to top itself since it has no other competition, I could also imagine it placing outside the top ten. Our Highest Rated Films: Benedcition, Eiffel Our Best Awards Ratings: None OTHER LIMITED RELEASES Dashcam (Limited) Deep…
Precursors to the Academy Awards come in many different types and they can appear all year from festivals and national awards to critics groups and other organization. Each month, we’ll take a look at all of the upcoming events that could have some small impact on the Oscars so you can plan out what to…
New This Week Flower Drum Song is the last of the filmed versions of a Rodgers & Hammerstein Broadway musical to be released on Blu-ray. Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music, as well as two versions of the made directly for the screen State Fair had been previously…