https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfduDq5gLnE After Toy Story 4, I didn't think we needed another Toy Story movie. I was wrong, because I didn't have the vision of two brothers who were willing to dedicate themselves to a nearly decade-long vision and see it through. Okay, so Toy Story 3 IRL is not a "new" movie. In fact, it tracks the exact audio [...]
Month: January 2020
2019 OSCAR NOMINATED SHORTS: DOCUMENTARY (Movie Review)
Released: January 31, 2020 in select theaters Runtime: 160 Minutes (5 short films) Program: Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts for 2019 (Parental Discretion advised; the final documentary short film "St. Louis Superman" has strong adult language) There’s a stretch of categories during every Oscar telecast that virtually no one has ever even heard of, let alone seen: the shorts. [...]
DEAR BASKETBALL: Kobe Bryant’s Oscar Winning Film (VIDEO)
https://vimeo.com/387857346 The sudden death of Kobe Bryant has reverberated across several cultural platforms, far beyond the arena of basketball where the man became an icon. Bryant, a 5-time NBA Champion with the Los Angeles Lakers and one of the greatest players in the history of the game, died Sunday morning January 26, 2020 when a [...]
Directors Guild Anoints 1917’s Sam Mendes As Oscar Frontrunner (AWARDS 2019)
The last major Awards Season card has been played, and it's predicting that 1917 is the movie to beat come Oscar night. After taken home Picture and Directing honors at the Golden Globes, then the top prize at the Producers Guild of America (a Best Picture equivalent), the Directors Guild of America named Sam Mendes [...]
PARASITE (Movie Review)
**** out of **** Rated R (for strong language, some violence and sexual content) Released: November 8, 2019 Runtime: 132 minutes Directed by: Bong Joon-ho Starring: Song Kang-ho, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-sik, Park So-dam, Lee Sun-kyun, Jang Hye-jin, Lee Jeong-eun, Jung Ji-so Now available to stream on Hulu. Winner of 4 Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Think [...]
Leaked Concept Art For Cancelled STAR WARS 9 Reveals Trevorrow’s Vision (IMAGES)
(Click here to read the details of Colin Trevorrow's Episode IX screenplay.) (Click here for More leaked Concept Art for Colin Trevorrow's Episode IX.) Any lingering doubts about the validity of the leaked screenplay for Colin Trevorrow's Star Wars: Duel of the Fates (i.e. the original draft for Episode IX) can finally be put to [...]
New David Lynch Short Film On Netflix Is A Birthday Surprise (FILM FUN)
It’s David Lynch’s birthday but he’s the one giving away a present. On the day he turned 74, the singularly offbeat director of films like Mulholland Drive and Blue Velvet (as well as TV’s Twin Peaks) dropped a new short film online via Netflix: What Did Jack Do?. This 17-minute avant-garde two-hander is set in [...]
No Shockers As Screen Actors Follow Awards Season Script (AWARDS 2019)
As predictable as a Hollywood formula, the Screen Actors Guild handed out acting awards to the presumptive favorites in four individual categories, and a leading Best Picture contender from their five cast nominees. Joaquin Phoenix, Renee Zellweger, Laura Dern and Brad Pitt all won their respective awards in leading and supporting categories, just as they [...]
Producers Guild Makes 1917 The Film To Beat For Best Picture (AWARDS 2019)
We officially have our Oscar frontrunner for Best Picture. In the 30 years of the Producers Guild of America Awards, 21 of their winners have gone on to grab the Best Picture prize at the Academy Awards, including 8 of the last 10. This year, director Sam Mendes' "one shot" World War I epic 1917 was [...]
Colin Trevorrow’s EPISODE IX Script Has Leaked. Here’s The Full Breakdown. (ANALYSIS)
(Click here for Leaked Concept Art for Colin Trevorrow's Episode IX.) (Click here for more leaked concept art.) It was bound to happen: the screenplay for Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly’s version of Star Wars: Episode IX has leaked. And it's true. All of it. A full draft of the script is nowhere to be downloaded (yet), but between the [...]