https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=69&v=425M4M3Opkk Christopher Robin is all grown up and lost his way. Oh bother. But being in the big city far away from the Hundred Acre Wood won't keep Winnie the Pooh from tracking him down. The cuddly golden bear shows up to remind his old friend of what's most important in life: family, not work. [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09M3C4VD1Fg Don’t get sidetracked by the confusing, too-clever-for-its-own-good title. The winner of the 2017 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short is a deeply moving human portrait. (Watch the full 40-minute movie above.) Mindy Alper is a 56-year-old woman who has suffered from phobias her entire life. As a child, depression, anxiety, and social triggers were compounded by [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzcaR1N0pTI Poppins popped into the Oscars last night. Disney-owned ABC gave a tease for the upcoming musical sequel to the Academy Award winning classic from 1964, but not the full teaser trailer; that debuted online (and can be seen above). Emily Blunt takes over for Julie Andrews as the magical nanny who revisits the now [...]
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. [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=DIBw9dSVKdU It's hard to believe it'll be six years by the time this sequel drops, but the belated return to this world will be a welcome one. The original Wreck-It Ralph was the first non-musical computer-animated feature from Walt Disney Animation to employ the best artistic and emotional virtues of then-new corporate cousin Pixar. Since [...]
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