Episode 6 - THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: Conversations On Cinema http://thebadandthebeautiful.libsyn.com/episode-06 Avengers: Infinity War, @ 01:02 Lean On Pete, @ 30:55 You Were Never Really Here, @ 36:33 Outro, @ 01:00:15 Bonus Clip, @ 01:01:16 This week, Charles Elmore and I take a look at two very different types of avengers on this episode of The Bad and [...]
SPOILER ALERT: If you have not seen Avengers: Infinity War, consider yourself warned. These predictions respond to major events that occur at the end of that film. Avengers: Infinity War has finally been unleashed onto the world in a feat of total dominance and box office records, setting a new opening weekend record of $258 [...]
Episode 5 - THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: Conversations On Cinema http://thebadandthebeautiful.libsyn.com/the-bad-and-the-beautiful-conversations-on-cinema-episode-05 Isle of Dogs, @ 0:50 Foxtrot, @ 26:15 Chappaquiddick, @ 30:30 A Quiet Place, @ 31:48 Outro/Preview, @ 56:15 It's twee and screams on this episode of The Bad and the Beautiful. You can download it on iTunes or stream Episode 5 above. E-mail [...]
Episode 4 - THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: Conversations On Cinema http://thebadandthebeautiful.libsyn.com/the-bad-and-the-beautiful-conversations-on-cinema Ready Player One, @ 1:10 Spielberg Top 5 / Jeff's bonus 10 thru 6, @ 29:23 Spielberg Top 5 / Charles' 5 through 1, @ 38:57 Spielberg Top 5 / Jeff's 5 through 1, @ 57:26 Outro, @ 01:01:15 A new film podcast [...]
Episode 3 - THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: Conversations On Cinema http://thebadandthebeautiful.libsyn.com/the-bad-and-the-beautiful-conversations-on-cinema-episode-03 Unsane, @ 0:46 Pacific Rim: Uprising, @ 19:20 I Can Only Imagine, @ 22:47 Vertigo, @ 27:36 Outro / Preview, @38:49 A new film conversation podcast co-hosted by myself and Charles Elmore. You can download it on iTunes or stream Episode 3 above. This [...]
https://youtu.be/_hTTvO50QTs?t=4m25s A movie on a movie screen is an Oscar movie. A movie on a TV screen is an Emmy movie. Why is this so hard to understand, let alone accept? Much of Film Twitter and nerdom is up in arms over Spielberg's "controversial" statement that movies which play in theaters should be up [...]
https://youtu.be/kavxsXhzD48 You'll never watch a movie the same way again, because you'll finally realize just how much the sound is affecting what you see and how you see it. That's the result of this brilliant video essay by Evan Puschak, a.k.a. The Nerdwriter. He takes a scene from Steven Spielberg's Munich and breaks down exactly [...]
Yes. And no. In the history of the Academy Awards, no film has ever received more than 14 Academy Award nominations, and that's only happened three times: All About Eve (1950), Titanic (1997), and La La Land (2016). To think that a comic book tentpole released in February could go on to set a new [...]
It’s not the Oscars. It’s you. Well, it's us really. A lot has been made of why the Academy Awards telecast has been in a steep decline over the last decade, falling this year to its lowest rated show ever. The conventional punditry has boiled that down to two reasons: more blockbusters need to be [...]
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 [...]
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