I recently had a discussion with someone I know about the way cinema handles the complexities of Catholicism. They were firmly of the belief that Hollywood hates religion, and the only films you will see from the current system are those bashing...
IT’S FESTIVAL SEASON, FOLKS! That’s right, we’ve waited six months for it, and now awards season is finally upon us! Because I’ve been so carefully following the awards race, as well as attending a football game on a prime movie day, I haven’t...
Last year, we witnessed one of modern award predicting’s longest stats fall flat on its face. After ten years, a non-Telluride premiere won Best Picture. And while there’s all sorts of reasons Green Book managed to undo history and math to claim...
Far and away, my favorite categories every year happen to be the Screenplay awards. Maybe it’s the writer in me, maybe it’s because these are the spots where creativity truly shines, but I love seeing credit being given to the brains behind our...
Richard Linklater is far and away my favorite working director. Possessing an honest, funny sensibility in the way he writes and directs, Linklater has a laid back eye for acting and dialogue that make even his simplest films shine brightly. From...
It was all supposed to be so easy. I had a solid list of five actresses ready to take on the Best Supporting Actress category, and for once in my life, they weren’t going to be Supportive Wives! Alas, fate had other plans, and two of my original...
Who’s your favorite working actor? Have they won an Oscar yet? Have they been nominated? If the answer is yes to either of those two questions, it’s probably because of the Best Supporting Actor category. Best Supporting Actor has transformed...
It’s the lull of the season, ladies and gents, where studios just try to get by until the Fall Festivals. I haven’t had a chance to get to the theater a whole lot the past few weeks – I do have some screenings scheduled this week, however. But...
So…Motherless Brooklyn. Here we go. Listen, I love Edward Norton. He gave two of the greatest performances of all time back to back, in Primal Fear and American History X. He’s a phenomenal actor. And I admire him greatly. But this…this is going...
The one thing most Oscar pundits (myself included) fail to take into account is the “under the radar” factor. While most prognosticators tend to look at the big, obvious films duking it out for Best Picture (Roma, Dunkirk, La La Land, The...
Every comedy director secretly has dreams of becoming a dramatist. Adam McKay turned his humorous lens to politics with the excellent Big Short and the insufferable Vice. Peter Farrelly tried to solve racism with Green Book (to mixed results)...
Well, it always was too good to be true. While I usually try to avoid posting gossip and backroom dealings on this site, this info seems pretty solid, and it marks a major shift in the current studio system. After five films, including two solo...
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