The bar for The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part was unexpectedly high. Due to the enormous success, both commercially and artistically, of the first entry in the series, a litany of spin-offs both great (LEGO Batman) and meh (LEGO Ninjago, which...
The big Oscar follow-up is a time-honored tradition. Whenever someone wins their first Oscar, be they an aging veteran or a rising up-and-comer, their next film (oftentimes a passion project) is green lit straight away, and it soon becomes a hot...
Thank God, it’s finally over. What a long, confusing, painful Oscar season this was. Between the Popular Oscar, the Category/Commercial debacle, the Original Song controversy, the lack of a host, and the general melee surrounding the road to the...
Tonight’s the night we’ve all been waiting for! Who will win Best Picture? Will there be any acting surprises? And how will the show fare without a host? I’ll have a breakdown for you all tomorrow morning, and in the meantime...
After a long Oscar slog, the wait is finally (almost) over. Tonight, twenty actors and actresses will be entering the Dolby Theater to see who will win, who will lose, and who will break a long-standing Oscar losing streak. However, while most of...
Well everyone, it’s finally time. After the longest, most unpleasant Oscar season yet, the 91st Academy Awards will finally be presented in the most unpredictable race ever. Who will win? Who will lose? Will Glenn Close, Spike Lee, and Ruth E...
Man, what an eclectic week of movie watching I’ve had. From Best Picture winners to favorites of the past to the best of 2018, I’ve seen it all. I even managed to see two foreign language contenders and my last “normie” Oscar contender, thanks to...
It’s time for every superfan between ten and thirty to get excited and for every parent to start crying, because the first trailer for Frozen 2 is finally here! That’s right, after the unprecedented success of Frozen, which broke the record for...
It was only on the list for a brief amount of time, but I consider the 1971 classic Shaft to be one of the greatest films of all time. Taking classic noir/action tropes and revitalizing them with a then-unique angle, Shaft gave the...
I was so looking forward to Serenity when the first trailer came out. As a fan of the film noir genre, and especially the neo-noir subgenre, the promise of a sexy noir thriller starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway, written and directed...
I used to be so good at predicting the Academy Awards. From The King’s Speech through Birdman, I would get all of the top awards right, especially Best Picture. However, as the Academy started changing up its membership, doubling down on the...
If you remember back at the beginning of the year, I named the then-untitled Danny Boyle-Richard Curtis romantic musical comedy Yesterday as my #2 most anticipated of 2019. Between the interesting premise, the great creative team, and the promise...
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