Poll: Best of Jun. 2025, Limited
Looking at Film from Every Angle
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Film Preview: Shelby Oaks (2025)
Page Revisions: (August 10, 2025) Original (October 19, 2025) New Posters (#2-#7) Release Date: October 3, 2025 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A woman’s desperate search for her long-lost sister falls into obsession upon realizing that the imaginary demon from their childhood may have been real.” Poster Rating: C / C+ (5) / C SEE ALL POSTERS…
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Contender: The Bad Guys 2 (2025)
CLICK HERE for more details about the Contenders series. CLICK HERE to see a list of other films in the 2025 Contenders series. The Bad Guys 2 was added to this list based on the following criteria: Pre-Release Buzz Type of Contender: Animation Contender Factor: 69.79 out of 100 (Stage 5 of 5 complete) Stage…
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Film Preview: Plainclothes (2025)
Page Revisions: (August 10, 2025) Original (August 17, 2025) New Trailer (#2) — New Poster (#1) Release Date: September 19, 2025 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A promising undercover agent assigned to lure and arrest gay men defies professional orders when he falls in love with a target.” Poster Rating: C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1,…
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Rating the Nominees, Group 5, #41
Over the next several weeks, we’ll be looking at the quality of the Oscar nominees. In most of the major categories, you’ll be asked to rank the nominees in a specific category on a scale from 1 to 10 with ten being best, 1 being worst. Even if you don’t like a movie, please be…
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Rating the Nominees, Group 5, #41
Over the next several weeks, we’ll be looking at the quality of the Oscar nominees. In most of the major categories, you’ll be asked to rank the nominees in a specific category on a scale from 1 to 10 with ten being best, 1 being worst. Even if you don’t like a movie, please be…
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Oscar History: August 15 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1879: Ethel Barrymore (79 at death) {4 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Supporting Actress Oscar Win: Supporting Actress 1901: John B. Goodman (89 at death) {4 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Art Direction/Production Design, Art Direction/Production Design (Black-and-White), Art Direction/Production Design (Color) Oscar Win: Art Direction/Production Design…
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Film Preview: Traumatika (2025)
Page Revisions: (August 10, 2025) Original (August 17, 2025) New Trailer (#2) Release Date: September 12, 2025 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Mikey’s night terrors become reality when his mother begins showing signs of demonic possession. What he’s about to experience will haunt him for the rest of his life and claim countless lives across generations.” Poster…
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Film Preview: Rental Family (2025)
Page Revisions: (August 10, 2025) Original (November 16, 2025) New Posters (#1-#3) Release Date: November 21, 2025 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A lonely American actor living in Tokyo starts working for a Japanese “rental family” company to play stand-in roles in other people’s lives. Along the way, he finds surprising connections and unexpected joys within his…
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Contender: Ricky (2025)
CLICK HERE for more details about the Contenders series. CLICK HERE to see a list of other films in the 2025 Contenders series. Ricky was added to this list based on the following criteria: Festival Award (Sundance, Directing Award) Type of Contender: Limited Contender Factor: out of 10 (Stage 1 of 5 complete) Stage 1…
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Film Preview: Preparation for the Next Life (2025)
Page Revisions: (August 10, 2025) Original Release Date: September 5, 2025 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A Uyghur woman, trained by her military father, migrates to NYC where she finds herself laboring in Chinatown’s underground kitchens. She fatefully encounters a young American soldier who just returned from three tours in the Middle East.” Poster Rating: C SEE…
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Rating the Nominees, Group 4, #41
Over the next several weeks, we’ll be looking at the quality of the Oscar nominees. In most of the major categories, you’ll be asked to rank the nominees in a specific category on a scale from 1 to 10 with ten being best, 1 being worst. Even if you don’t like a movie, please be…
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Rating the Nominees, Group 4, #41
Over the next several weeks, we’ll be looking at the quality of the Oscar nominees. In most of the major categories, you’ll be asked to rank the nominees in a specific category on a scale from 1 to 10 with ten being best, 1 being worst. Even if you don’t like a movie, please be…
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Review: 9 to 5 (1980)
9 to 5 Rating Director Colin Higgins Screenplay Patricia Resnick, Colin Higgins Length 1h 49m Starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, Dabney Coleman, Sterling Hayden, Elizabeth Wilson, Henry Jones, Lawrence Pressman, Marian Mercer, Ren Woods MPAA Rating PG Review When you take two of the greatest working actors and put them together with a…
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Oscar Profile: Mike Nichols
Born Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky November 6, 1931 to wealthy Russian-Jewish parents in Berlin, Germany, the future Mike Nichols lost his hair at the age of four due to a bad reaction to an allergic reaction to a Whooping Cough inoculation and wore wigs and false eyebrows in adulthood to hide his baldness. At the age…
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Poll: Re-Awarding Best Actress, 2016
Return Links Polls Re-Awarding Best Actress, 2016 Now that we’ve finished rebuilding the nomination slate between 1997 and 2016 (we’ll do subsequent years after this series has completed), we will take those rebuilt slates and pick a new winner from among the nominees. In our ninth pass, we take a look at the new nominees…
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