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 [...]
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THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL Podcast: Episode 1 – BLACK PANTHER, Oscar Race, & More (PODCAST)
Episode 1 - THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: Conversations On Cinema http://thebadandthebeautiful.libsyn.com/the-bad-and-the-beautiful-episode-01 Black Panther, @ 1:21 Sundance Film Festival Recap, @ 22:43 The Cloverfield Paradox, @ 38:29 A Look at the Oscar race, @ 48:38 Welcome to the debut episode of The Bad and the Beautiful, a new film conversation podcast co-hosted by myself and [...]
New Film Podcast THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL Coming Soon (UPDATE)
I'm excited to announce a new podcasting venture that I'll be co-hosting and co-producing with Charles E. Elmore. It's called "The Bad and the Beautiful", and it's about to debut. A fellow member of the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle, Charles has also produced the Tulsa-based film podcast Videodrone Tulsa and curated its website. Now, as we continue [...]
MY TOP TEN LIST FOR 2017
There's belated, then there's overdue, and then waaaaaay past that there's "What's even the point?" A February 2018 publication of a 2017 Top 10 List essentially falls into the final category, but hey, what the heck. Here it is, for the record: my choices for the Best Films of 2017. It begins with the Top 10, [...]
OFCC Podcast: Episode 18 (Part 2) – Year End Blowout Ends With Slate Of Oscar Contenders (PODCAST)
Episode 18 (Part 2): This Is The End Of The Year As We Know It For this edition of The OFCC Podcast, available on iTunes, our roundtable of critics from the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle return to discuss the latest in movies for late December 2017 and early January 2018. You can also stream Episode 18 (Part 2) [...]
2017 Year In Film: Tulsa Voice Critics Recap The Year (ANALYSIS)
On the last day of the year, for the last post of the year, I'll link you to my chat at The Tulsa Voice that recaps the year in film for 2017. Lead TTV film critic Joe O'Shansky and I look back at the movies -- and moments -- that resonated, stuck out, or disappointed. For [...]
OFCC Podcast: Episode 18 (Part 1) – Year End Blowout; LAST JEDI and Oscar Contenders (PODCAST)
Episode 18 (Part 1): This Is Not Going To Go The Way You Think For this edition of The OFCC Podcast, available on iTunes, our roundtable of critics from the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle return to discuss the latest in movies for December 2017. You can also stream Episode 18 (Part 1) by clicking here. On this episode, the [...]
THE LAST JEDI: The Protestant Reformation of the Star Wars Saga (ANALYSIS)
MAJOR SPOILERS for Star Wars: The Last Jedi follow. Proceed accordingly. You can read my spoiler-free review of the movie here: Star Wars: The Last Jedi As it turns out, Luke Skywalker didn’t bring balance to the Force. In Star Wars: The Last Jedi, he nailed a revolutionary thesis to the docking bay door. In the [...]
OFCC Podcast: Episode 17 – COCO, JUSTICE LEAGUE, WONDER & More (PODCAST)
Episode 17: Justice (be)League(rd), Cozy Coco, & Tear-Jerking Wonder For this edition of The OFCC Podcast, available on iTunes, our roundtable of critics from the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle return to discuss the latest in movies for the latter half of November 2017. You can also stream Episode 17 by clicking here. On this episode, the critics include: Host Charles [...]
CASABLANCA at 75
Casablanca is a movie about fate and choices. It's fitting, then, that Casablanca's journey to the screen was a mix of fate and choices. On December 7th, 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, finally bringing the United States into the Second World War. One day later, on December 8th, a story analyst in the Warner [...]