Weekend Preview: Nov. 13-15, 2026
Looking at Film from Every Angle
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Poll: Remaking Best Production Design, 2007
Return Links Polls Remaking Best Production Design, 2007 In our third pass of the Oscar nominees from 1997 through 2016, we take a look at the nominees for Best Production Design. Each week, we’ll present a list of contenders from which you can select five to make up the Best Production Design slate. There will…
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Film Preview: Dolittle (2020)
Page Revisions: (October 20, 2019) Original (January 12, 2020) New Posters (#2-#12) Release Date: January 17, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A physician discovers that he can talk to animals.” Poster Rating: C+ / B- (9) / C+ / B SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1) With all of the cute animals doing the design’s heavy…
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Film Preview: Daniel Isn’t Real (2019)
Page Revisions: (October 20, 2019) Original Release Date: December 6, 2019 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A troubled college freshman, Luke, suffers a violent family trauma and resurrects his childhood imaginary friend Daniel to help him cope.” Poster Rating: C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: There’s a faint hint of 80s horror poster aesthetics here, but the…
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5 Favorites Redux #1: Inventive Horror Premises
Five years ago, we wrapped up a long-running feature where visitors submitted their five favorites in a specific category each week. While I’m not bringing back THAT particular feature, I am reviving the title for a new feature that I intend to release weekly on Thursdays. This new feature will be my list of 5…
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Oscar Profile #467: Olympia Dukakis
Born June 20, 1931 in Lowell, Massachusetts, Olympia Dukakis is the daughter of Greek immigrants. She is a first cousin of 1988 Presidential candidate Michael Dukakis (born 1933). Dukakis majored in physical therapy at Boston University, graduating with a BA. She practiced as a therapist during the polio epidemic, later returning to Boston University where…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 24 (2019)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Precursor: Australian Academy Awards Nominations (2019)
There aren’t a lot of films that qualify for these awards and it seems like the vast majority of the nominations went to just four films: The Nightingale, Hotel Mumbai, The King, and Judy & Punch. While these fils are eligible for Oscar consideration, to date only The King seems to be in the race…
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Poll: What Are You Watching? (Oct. 25-27, 2019)
Return Links Polls What Are You Watching? (Oct. 25-27, 2019)
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Film Preview: White Snake (2019)
Page Revisions: (October 20, 2019) Original (November 10, 2019) New Release Date (changed from 11/29/19) Release Date: November 15, 2019 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A love story between a snake spirit and a snake hunter.” Poster Rating: B- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: When creating a poster design that’s going to waste space, at least try…
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Trailer Watch: The Report (2019) Updated
New Trailer (#2) / New Poster (#2) The Report, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for all of the new content as well as the original.
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2019 Oscar Season Preview: November
Here we look at the upcoming month’s offerings. November 1, 2019 Arctic Dogs Premise: From IMDb: “Swifty the Arctic Fox works in the mailroom of the Arctic Blast Delivery Service but dreams of one day becoming a Top Dog (the Arctic’s star husky courier). To prove himself worthy of the Top Dog role, Swifty secretly…
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Looking at the Weekend: Oct. 25-27, 2019
It’s hard to know how the weekend will go. Maleficent had a much weaker debut than expected, but the new releases this week don’t inspire confidence in success. Black and Blue feels like the latest in a series of genre bombs while Countdown doesn’t seem to have the horror heft most of its ilk do.…
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2019 Oscar Nominations Predictions: October
The first precursors will be going out in just over a month, which means our predictions are becoming more and more solid. Although there’s still a lot of disagreement until the critics start weighing in, most of the categories differ only slightly. That is except Supporting Actress, which seems to be all over the place…
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This Day in Oscar History: October 23 (2019)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Film Preview: The Captain (2019)
Page Revisions: (October 20, 2019) Original Release Date: October 18, 2019 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Directed by Andrew Lau, the film is based on a real-life incident in May 2018, when the cockpit windshield of a Sichuan Airlines flight shattered while the plane was flying 30,000 feet above the Tibetan Plateau. The co-pilot was sucked halfway…
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