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. As a companion piece to last week’s list, I wanted to take a look…
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Born February 10, 1967 in Los Angeles, California to actors Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd, future actress Laura Dern would become the first member of her family to win an Oscar. She was raised by her mother and grandmother after her parents divorced when she was just two years old. Dern first appeared on screen…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Our Site Milestones 2010: Film Fun Friday (1)
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Page Revisions: (April 12, 2020) Original Release Date: April 24, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Tyler Rake, a fearless black market mercenary, embarks on the most deadly extraction of his career when he’s enlisted to rescue the kidnapped son of an imprisoned international crime lord.” Poster Rating: C / C+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1)…
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With the pandemic in its second month and most of the summer releases pushed off to fall or 2021 release dates, there isn’t much to see in the upcoming list of films. As such, this preview will be notably mediocre in terms of coverage. To introduce you to the upcoming films, there will be two…
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Little Women Rating Director Greta Gerwig Screenplay Greta Gerwig (Novel: Louisa May Alcott) Length 2h 15min Starring Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, Laura Dern, Timothée Chalamet, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, James Norton, Louis Garrel, Jayne Houdyshell, Chris Cooper, Meryl Streep MPAA Rating PG for thematic elements and brief smoking Original Preview Click…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Ceremonies
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Page Revisions: (April 12, 2020) Original Release Date: May 8, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The novel charts the journey of teenager Johanna Morrigan (Beanie Feldstein), who reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde: fast-talking, lady sex-adventurer, moves to London, and gets a job as music critic in the hope of saving her poverty stricken family in Wolverhampton.”…
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New This Week Little Women is the last of the nine 2019 Oscar nominees for Best Picture to make it to home video. Winner Parasite, as well as 1917, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, Jojo Rabbit, Joker, and Ford v Ferrari have all been previously released on DVD and Blu-ray. The Irishman and Marriage Story…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Ceremonies
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Page Revisions: (April 12, 2020) Original Release Date: June 12, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Early in World War II, an inexperienced U.S. Navy captain must lead an Allied convoy being stalked by Nazi U-boat wolfpacks.” Poster Rating: C / C+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1) Being Patriotic doesn’t necessarily make the film more appealing,…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Page Revisions: (April 6, 2020) Original Release Date: April 3, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A slice-of-life comedy about a woman on the edge with nowhere to go but over, Lazy Susan is a story about a spectacularly unmotivated woman for whom doing nothing is exhausting.” Poster Rating: D SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: A dull…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Ceremonies
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