Ladies and gentlemen, we are officially in the pre-season for the Oscar race. After the TIFF lineup announcement last week, we now have a lineup for the Venice Film Festival – a festival that has given us three of our last four Best Picture...
Welcome back, everyone! You may not have gone anywhere or done anything special this week, but I’m just settling in after a nice vacation. Because I’ve been gone, I haven’t had a chance to go to the movies very often. However, I did manage to see...
After months of decent, but below average films to help us get through the summer slog, we finally are on the Oscar hunt as Canada has finally brought us the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival Lineup! While most Best Picture winners in...
Of the five longest running shows in Broadway history, only one has yet to be adapted into a film (although most fans have tried to forget the Phantom of the Opera movie). That show is Cats, Andrew Lloyd Weber’s freakadelic, surrealist adaptation...
I’m home for a day or two before traveling once again, but I do have enough time to post another rousing edition of What I Watched, What You Watched! I only had a chance to see one new release this week, and that was the Ruth Bader Ginsburg...
BOW DOWN, B*TCHES! The period political drama is back in full force with the first trailer for Mary Queen of Scots, and while I have some thoughts about the trailer as a whole, there is no denying that Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie are truly...
We’re at about the halfway point for the year, so I thought now would be a good time to return to the Oscar predictions. So far, we really don’t know that much about the Oscar race. There’s some early buzz around quite a few films, a few...
We’re just past the year’s halfway point, which means it’s time for things to start picking up, at least movie-wise. That’s a good thing, because I have only seen one film that has truly blown me away, although there are quite a few that I still...
Thursday, the Television Academy announced their nominations for the 70th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards. And with Game of Thrones and Westworld back in the running, Veep ineligible, and the #MeToo movement striking down consistent favorites like...
An insider source who has commented on the weight behind both Moonlight and The Shape of Water in past years has recently revealed that buzz is growing for Yorgos Lanthimos’ newest film, The Favourite. If you’re a fan of Lanthimos, or if you’re...
It’s been a pretty good week of movie watching. I’ve seen a couple of classics and listened to a great podcast. I even managed to get to the theater to see two great films: Won’t You Be My Neighbor? And First Reformed. I won’t be reviewing Won’t...
The 2001 Ocean’s Eleven was a perfect, breezy hit, giving audiences four suave heroes and seven suave-ish cohorts and an effortless, simple plot dressed up to look smart. The 2018 all-female follow-up, Ocean’s Eight, does away with any attempt to...
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