On the day the Oscar nominations were announced back on January 23rd, I tweeted this: I'll take 8 for 9. But the one I missed was the big one: The Shape of Water. The year's nomination leader with 13 went on to win Best Picture of the Year at the 90th Annual Academy Awards. It [...]
Below are links to my reviews of all nine Best Picture nominees for the 90th Annual Academy Awards, listed in alphabetical order. To read my Oscar predictions, click here. Academy Award Nominees for BEST PICTURE 2017 Call Me By Your Name *** out of **** (4 Nominations) A sexy gay romance, the lush and lavish [...]
Episode 2 - THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: Conversations On Cinema http://thebadandthebeautiful.libsyn.com/the-bad-and-the-beautiful-conversations-on-cinema-episode-02 Annihilation, @ 1:40 The Breadwinner, @ 27:00 Spielberg: Underrated and Overrated, @ 37:30 Final Oscar Predictions, @ 01:01:25 Welcome to the second episode of The Bad and the Beautiful, a new film conversation podcast co-hosted by myself and Charles Elmore. You can download it [...]
Below are my predictions for the 2017 Academy Awards, in all 24 categories. The list has some commentary in the major categories, and then simple “Will Win” predictions for the undercard choices along with “Should Win” opinions. In a night that won't see any one film dominate, the year's big winner will be Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri with 4 Academy Awards, including [...]
Between Netflix, Amazon Prime, and YouTube, there are 12 Oscar nominees you can stream right now. Most are in the Documentary Feature and Short categories. Not only would watching them give you a better gauge on some of the harder categories in your Oscar pool, but the Documentaries this year (feature length and shorts both) [...]
*** out of **** Rated R (for some disturbing images, drug use, and strong language including sexual references) Released: December 27, 2017 limited; expands February/March 2018 Runtime: 106 minutes Directed by: Fatih Akin Starring: Diane Kruger, Denis Moschitto, Numan Acar, Johannes Krisch, Ulrich Brandhoff, Hanna Hilsdorf, Ulrich Tukur My review of In the Fade, for The Tulsa Voice. [...]
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