Oscar History: November 8 (2026)
Looking at Film from Every Angle
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5 Favorites #102: The Crew of Dune
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. In the 100-plus 5 Favorites posts I’ve done, I’ve focused primarily on actors, rarely…
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Precursor: 31st Gotham Awards Nominations (2021)
The Gotham Awards announce earlier and earlier every year and for little reason. Sure, they get the drop on other groups, but their selections are often so far out of the mainstream that they don’t generally translate into Oscar nominations or even other precursor consideration. This is also only one of two groups that I’m…
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Oscar Profile #570: Karl Freund
Born January `16, 1890 in Königinhof, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary, now Dvur Kralove, Czech Republic, future Oscar winner Karl Freund moved with his family to Berlin when he was 11. In 1905, when he was 15, he went to work as a projectionist. Two years later he was a newsreel photographer. He was then drafted into the…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 21 (2021)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Our Site Milestones 2011: Oscar in Box Office History (10)
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Poll: What Are You Watching? (Oct. 22-24, 2021)
Return Links Polls What Are You Watching? (Oct. 22-24, 2021)
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Film Preview: Who You Think I Am (2021)
Page Revisions: (October 17, 2021) Original Release Date: September 3, 2021 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Claire, a 50-year-old divorced teacher, creates a fake Facebook profile of a 24-year-old woman. She finds a photo of a pretty young blonde and uses it. She has created an entirely fictional character, but why?” Poster Rating: C / C- /…
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Film Preview: After We Fell (2021)
Page Revisions: (October 17, 2021) Original Release Date: September 30, 2021 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Just as Tessa makes the biggest decision of her life, everything changes. Revelations about her family, and then Hardin’s, throw everything they knew before in doubt and makes their hard-won future together more difficult to claim.” Poster Rating: C- / C+…
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2021 Oscar Season Box Office Preview: November
Here we look at the upcoming month’s offerings. November 5, 2021 Eternals Premise: From IMDb: “The saga of the Eternals, a race of immortal beings who lived on Earth and shaped its history and civilizations.” Box Office Prospects: $200 M Expectations: Excellent. With the box office starting to rebound, Disney has done tremendously well getting…
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Looking at the Weekend: Oct. 22-24, 2021
This weekend, we have a battle of two types of audiences. The first film is likely to draw a lot of fans of Frank Herbert’s seminal sci-fi classic. The other film is likely to appeal to families who haven’t had as much to see at theaters recently. Ultimately, the expansive epic is more likely to…
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Review: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
2001: A Space Odyssey Rating Director Stanley Kubrick Screenplay Stanley Kubrick & Arthur C. Clarke (Short Story: Arthur C. Clarke) Length 2h 29m Starring Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Leonard Rossiter, Margaret Tyzack, Robert Beatty, Sean Sullivan, Douglas Rain MPAA Rating G
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2021 Oscar Nominations Predictions: Post-Festival
As is our tradition, May begins our first predictive look at the year’s Oscar hopefuls. A lot of factors will play into how well our guesses hold up. Expect many of them to fall by the wayside as the year progresses and new contenders to rise into their places. With the festival circuit having run…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 20 (2021)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Trailer Watch: Needle in a Timestack (2021) Updated
New Trailer (#2) Needle in a Timestack, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for all of the new content as well as the original.
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Film Preview: Scream (2022)
Page Revisions: (October 17, 2021) Original (December 19, 2021) Revised Summary (January 9, 2022) New Posters (#3-#19) (January 16, 2022) New Trailer (#2) — New Posters (#20-#22) Release Date: January 14, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Twenty-five years after the original series of murders in Woodsboro, a new killer emerges, and Sidney Prescott must return to…
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The DVD Report #747
New This Week The Criterion Collection has released a content-loaded two-disc 4K digital restoration of Raoul Walsh’s seminal 1941 actioner High Sierra on Blu-ray. Marking the moment when the gritty gangster films of the 1930s began giving way to the romantic fatalism of 1940s film noir, to quote the notes on the Blu-ray case’s back…
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