It started with a comeback. Now it ends with a reveal. Here's Part 2 of my return to Nick Flora's All Time Favorite podcast, where we have fun talking about our picks for the Best / Favorite Films of 2018. In this conclusion, we complete our Top 10 lists, counting up from 5 to 1. (To hear [...]
Episode 18 - THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: Conversations On Cinema http://thebadandthebeautiful.libsyn.com/the-bad-and-the-beautiful-episode-18-alita-battle-angel-httyd3-lego-movie-2-cold-war-oscars-2019-predictions Alita: Battle Angel, @ 0:50 How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, @ 10:49 The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, @ 14:36 Cold War, @ 15:40 Academy Awards Preview: Awards Season analysis & Oscar Predix, @ 21:38 Outro, @ 46:39 On [...]
Field of Vision - A Night at the Garden from Field of Vision on Vimeo. February 20, 1939. Eighty years ago. A banner of George Washington, flanked by swastikas. In America. As Hitler's Third Reich amassed its power, 20,000 Nazi sympathizers packed into Madison Square Garden in New York City to champion their fascist creeds [...]
Don't call it a comeback. Okay, call it a comeback. Technically, that's exactly what it is. Like a fact. Or science. Or whatever. After skipping a year because of LIFE!, I return to Nick Flora's All Time Favorite podcast for our traditional "Best Films of the Year" two-part podcast event. Yes, it's an event! (...self-declared though it [...]
Episode 17 - THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: Conversations On Cinema http://thebadandthebeautiful.libsyn.com/the-bad-and-the-beautiful-episode-17 Top 10 Lists, 10 to 6, @ 1:11 Glass, @ 22:17 Burning, @ 33:45 Top 10 Lists, 5 to 1, @ 37:57 Outro, @ 01:02:23 On this first episode for 2019 of The Bad and the Beautiful, Charles and Jeff reveal their choices [...]
Well that took long enough. Yes, I'm a Top 10 straggler, but I'd rather be sure than second-guess myself down the road. Rushing out a list during the onslaught of screening season, simply to meet the obligatory date of December 31st, just doesn't allow that. Not for me, anyway. Instead, I like to let my [...]
Warning: this essay contains major spoilers for the 2000 film Unbreakable. Unbreakable is a masterpiece of pop cinema. Pre-dating the Marvel Cinematic Universe by nearly a decade and even the original Sam Raimi Spider-Man by two years, M. Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable was ahead its time – and that’s an understatement. It’s also a crucial point [...]
A decade-low viewership for the Golden Globes reveals a reality that the Oscars should finally accept: Your ratings aren’t coming back. You couldn’t have had a better case study, actually, than this year’s Globes because it had everything going for it. Not only did it boast coveted popular nominees like Black Panther, Crazy Rich Asians, [...]
This article contains major spoilers for A Star Is Born At the center of that awards season maelstrom is A Star Is Born, the fourth film version about the rise to stardom of an unknown artist (played here by Lady Gaga) after she’s discovered by an industry legend who’s struggling with alcohol and drug addiction [...]
For the final 2018 issue of The Tulsa Voice, my fellow film critic Charles Elmore and I look back on the year in film. This is a conversation, not Top 10 Lists, as we reflect on what defined the cinematic experience of 2018, citing a wide variety of movies - both big and small - [...]
I Can't Unsee That Movie: film news and reviews by Jeff Huston 