As always, we wrap up our look at the acting nominees with Best Supporting Actress. While it usually doesn’t play a major role in the Best Picture race, a strong Supporting Actress – be it a supportive wife or mother, a spunky ingenue, or a...
The largest category of every year, by far, is Best Supporting Actor. With most films still dominated by men, and the definition of “Supporting” ranging from “has one really good scene” to “Wait, they’re top billed, how are they not a Lead?” this...
I’m not sure there’s any director around who understands “spectacle” quite like Jordan Peele. He’s already made one perfect film in Get Out, and he followed it up with arguably the smartest (perhaps too smart? Debatable) horror film in decades...
While the Oscar race is still predominantly dominated by male actors in male-driven stories, the last five years has seen a major push on the Academy’s part for female-led pictures. The Shape of Water, Nomadland, and CODA all had female leads...
No matter how much progress is made in diversifying the Oscars, some things will always remain the same. In this case, it’s that the best way to get a Best Picture nomination is make a film with a Best Actor nominee. In the last 12 years, every...
Once upon a time, action movies had soul. Sure, most of them weren’t good – they were shoestring plots with bad acting covered up with visceral action setpieces created through a blend of special effects and technical prowess. In the last year...
We’re only in July, and already the Oscar race has gone through so much turmoil. Films like Next Goal Wins and The Maestro have been pushed to 2023, others like The Stars At Noon and Three Thousand Years of Longing had muted (or outright bad)...
Sometimes you can just watch the first five minutes of a film and know exactly what you’re going to get. I had a feeling I knew the plot of Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris before I watched a single frame – I went in completely blind, never having seen...
From the 1990s through the 2000s, a popular subgenre emerged: popular beach lit adaptations. It was a simple, effective formula: find those books everyone was taking to the beach in the summer (usually not very good but very easy to read), get a...
Yesterday, the Television Academy announced their nominees for the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards. And they confirmed one thing in their nominations: in a banner year for television, voters ended up watching the same five...
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is in a freefall at the moment. You may not notice it looking solely at box office receipts – after all, just shy of a billion dollars each outing is nothing to sneeze at. But with the rise of Disney+ and an...
The greatest feat a documentary can perform is immersing you into a new, frightening, and dazzling world. Some do it on a human scale, exploring the human psychoses in both positive and negative ways. Some do it on a natural scale, capturing the...
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