Travis Burgess

The Best TV Episodes And Moments Of 2017: A Wednesday Listicle

2017 has come and gone, and my God was it a wonderful year for television. Every channel seemed to be on point, from the old guard of ABC and NBC to the cable giants HBO and FX to the new vanguard of Netflix and Hulu. This is the year where we...

01/14/2018 Travis Burgess Best of 2017, Black Mirror, black-ish, Brockmire, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Game of Thrones, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Master of None, Nathan For You, Rick and Morty, Saturday Night Live, South Park, The Good Place, The Handmaid's Tale, Twin Peaks: The Return, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Veep, Wednesday Listicles 0 Comments

‘The Square’ Review

It’s always entertaining when the Europeans make satire. They are always bombastic, surreal, and creative in a way few American directors would ever dream of being. That is certainly the case with Ruben Östlund’s The Square, a critique of the...

01/09/2018 Travis Burgess Reviews, Ruben Östlund, Sweden, The Square 0 Comments

71st BAFTA Award Nominations

Well, one thing’s for sure, the Brits love fellow Brits (and Irish). The 71st BAFTA nominations rolled in last night at 2:30 am EST (ugh), and while The Shape of Water came away with 12 nominations, Darkest Hour (about a Brit) and Three...

01/09/2018 Travis Burgess 71st BAFTA Awards, BAFTA, Blade Runner 2049, Call Me By Your Name, Darkest Hour, Dunkirk, Paddington 2, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri 0 Comments

‘Call Me By Your Name’ Review

They really don’t make films like Call Me By Your Name anymore. Watching it legitimately feels like you are seeing a classic being born. I’m not sure the last time I saw a film with this level of mastery over storytelling, acting and more –...

01/08/2018 Travis Burgess Armie Hammer, Call Me By Your Name, Luca Guadagnino, Reviews, Timothée Chalamet 0 Comments

‘Three Billboards’ And ‘Lady Bird’ Win At The Globes

I’m writing this Golden Globes write-up only a few minutes after the show ended, so pardon any typos that appear here. I’m still shook by Oprah. That was an inspirational, powerful speech that had everyone in that room, regardless of race, creed...

01/08/2018 Travis Burgess 75th Golden Globes, Big Little Lies, Golden Globes, Lady Bird, Oprah Winfrey, The Handmaid's Tale, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Winners 0 Comments

75th Golden Globe Awards LIVE!

We’ve finally reached the first major award show of the season: the Golden Globes! As I write this, the stars are arriving, dressed in black and standing as one, and we are about an hour away from the show’s premiere. I will be...

01/07/2018 Travis Burgess 75th Golden Globes, Get Out, Golden Globes, Lady Bird, Live Results, Seth Meyers, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri 0 Comments

What I Watched, What You Watched #54

I cannot get over how great a year 2017 has been for pop culture. I mean, I saw three films in theaters this week that would be my Top Three of any other year, and yet at the moment, only one is in the Top Three, another is in my Top Ten, and...

01/07/2018 Travis Burgess Beatriz At Dinner, Black Mirror, Call Me By Your Name, CHIPs, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Girls, GLOW, Hostiles, I Tonya, Master of None, The Handmaid's Tale, What I Watched, What I Watched What You Watched, What You Watched 0 Comments

The Producers And Writers Guild Nominations Solidify The Oscar Race

Man, things are really heating up this week with the awards race. The past two days, we’ve seen some of the biggest guilds give out their awards for the best of the year: the Producers Guild (one of the biggest indicators of Best Picture) and the...

01/05/2018 Travis Burgess Call Me By Your Name, Dunkirk, Get Out, I Tonya, Lady Bird, Logan, Molly's Game, Mudbound, Producers Guild Awards, The Big Sick, The Disaster Artist, The Post, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, WGA Awards, Wonder Woman 0 Comments

Golden Globes Predictions: The Sacred Wall’s Beat The Guru Golden Globes Competition

Break out the copious amounts of booze and slur the names of winners, it’s time for the 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards! This Sunday, Seth Meyers will be leading us through the first major award of the season, which means that it’s time for the...

01/05/2018 Travis Burgess 75th Golden Globes, Beat the Guru, Big Little Lies, Dunkirk, Get Out, I Tonya, Lady Bird, Lena Smith, Stranger Things, The Disaster Artist, The Handmaid's Tale, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Post, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri 0 Comments

2017 ACE Eddie Award Nominations

Well guys, it’s time. The American Cinema Editors’ Awards (ACE) have announced their nominees for 2017, meaning the guilds are weighing in and we’re finally in the home stretch of the season. And quite frankly, they’re keeping things just as...

01/04/2018 Travis Burgess ACE Eddie Awards, ACE Editors Guild, Baby Driver, black-ish, Blade Runner 2049, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Dunkirk Molly's Game, Get Out, I Tonya, Lady Bird, The Handmaid's Tale, The Post, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri 0 Comments

Wednesday Listicle: Top Ten Most Anticipated Films Of 2018

First off, let me wish you all a Happy New Year! 2017 was certainly a great year for film, and I’m looking forward to sharing my thoughts with you all in the coming weeks. However, for today, we have a more pressing issue: what films we’re...

01/04/2018 Travis Burgess A Star Is Born, A Wrinkle in Time, Avengers: Infinity War, Best of 2017, Black Panther, First Man, Halloween (2018), If Beale Street Could Talk, Lists, Mary Queen of Scots, Ocean's 8, The Favorite, Wednesday Listicles 0 Comments

Complete 90th Academy Award Predictions

We have only a few weeks left before the 90th Oscar nominations are announced, and it suddenly dawned on me that I haven’t posted a fully contemplative list of my predictions. So, in response to the list of shortlists I posted on Sunday, and...