Darkest Hour – The Sacred Wall

What I Watched, What You Watched #61

I held off on this list until after the Oscars, to focus my attention on the festivities. This also meant I watched fourteen films in a one week period, in order to officially see EVERY SINGLE NOMINEE FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER!

03/06/2018 Travis Burgess A Fantastic Woman, Abacus: Small Enough to Jail, Another Year, Atlanta, Black Mirror, Coco, Darkest Hour, Dirty Harry, Happy Death Day, Loveless, Modern Family, On Body and Soul, Shaun of the Dead, Sid and Nancy, Speechless, The Breadwinner, The Middle, The Office, The People vs. Larry Flynt, The Sauce, The Visitor, What I Watched, What I Watched What You Watched, What You Watched 0 Comments

Friday Night Dinners: An Oscar-Inspired Meal

What To Serve For An Oscar-Inspired Meal? The Oscars are this Sunday, and I’m sure you’re all asking yourself one question (after “What’s going to win Best Picture?” of course): what should I serve at my Oscar party? Well, lucky for you, I have...

03/02/2018 Travis Burgess Call Me By Your Name, Darkest Hour, Dunkirk, Friday Night Dinners, Get Out, Lady Bird, Oscar Meal, Oscars, Phantom Thread, The Post, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri 0 Comments

90th Academy Award Final Predictions

God, I am both so ready and so unready for this season to end. On the one hand, this has been one of the most unpredictable races in years, completely unpredictable and unique. No matter what film wins, history will be made. However, on the other...

03/02/2018 Travis Burgess 90th Academy Awards, Baby Driver, Blade Runner 2049, Darkest Hour, Dunkirk, Get Out, Oscars, Predictions, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri 0 Comments

The 2017 Sacred Wall Awards: A Wednesday Listicle

Welcome to the Second Annual Sacred Wall Awards! After spending the last few weeks looking at the worst of the worst and the best of the best, it’s time to break these films down to their base components, determining who were the best performers...

02/21/2018 Travis Burgess Baby Driver, Best of 2017, Blade Runner 2049, Call Me By Your Name, Coco, Darkest Hour, Dunkirk, Get Out, Lady Bird, The Sacred Wall Awards, Wednesday Listicles 0 Comments

‘Three Billboards’ Wins Big At The 24th Screen Actors Guild Awards

The best way to sum up the 24th Screen Actors Guild Awards is “Well, at least TV mixed things up a bit.” Because while the choices for each of the awards were highly deserving, there were few surprises to be found as Three Billboards took home...

01/22/2018 Travis Burgess 24th Screen Actors Guild Awards, Allison Janney, Big Little Lies, Darkest Hour, Frances McDormand, Gary Oldman, I Tonya, Sam Rockwell, Screen Actors Guild, This Is Us, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Veep 0 Comments

24th Screen Actors Guild Award Final Predictions

We’re getting closer and closer to the actual Oscar race, which means that events like the Screen Actors Guild awards are destined to come along and shake up the race in events we can’t foresee. With the Golden Globes and the Critics Choice...

01/20/2018 Travis Burgess 24th Screen Actors Guild Awards, Darkest Hour, Feud, GLOW, Lady Bird, Predictions, Screen Actors Guild, The Florida Project, The Handmaid's Tale, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri 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

The Academy Shortlists: Snubs And Shocks Below The Line

As we get closer to the Oscar nominations, we’re going to be hearing more and more about the shortlists that the branches have released. You see, while certain fields (Picture, Actor, Music) allow everything that is eligible to compete for the...

12/31/2017 Travis Burgess 90th Academy Awards, A Fantastic Woman, Academy Shortlists, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, BPM, Bright, Darkest Hour, Dear Basketball, Dunkirk, Faces Places, Foxtrot, I Tonya, In A Heartbeat, Jane, Last Men In Aleppo, Okja, Oscars, Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi, Strong Island, The Shape of Water, The Square, War for the Planet of the Apes 0 Comments

What I Watched, What You Watched #51

Man, have I been busy this week. Not only is this the busiest time of the year for work, but it’s also the start of awards season, when everyone and their mother drops a Top Ten list, a critics guild, or, starting this week, announces their major...

12/10/2017 Travis Burgess 25th Hour, A Separation, Broad City, Darkest Hour, Finding Frances, I Am Heath Ledger, Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond, Nathan For You, Psych: The Movie, South Park, The Square, What I Watched, What I Watched What You Watched, What You Watched 0 Comments

‘Darkest Hour’ Review

The biopic genre, from this point forward, is going to have a difficult uphill climb. Unlike, say, the romance, the horror, or the comedy, there are only so many ways you can tell a person’s life story: you can tell the entire life’s story, like...

12/08/2017 Travis Burgess Darkest Hour, Gary Oldman, Joe Wright, Reviews 0 Comments

A 90th Oscar Predictions Update

There is something strange brewing on the horizon. Can you feel it? It’s in the winds of this Oscar season, and I’m not sure how many casual viewers are aware of it. Let me paint the picture for you so you can understand. We have just completed...

09/27/2017 Travis Burgess 90th Academy Awards, Allison Janney, Darkest Hour, Dunkirk, Frances McDormand, Gary Oldman, Lady Bird, Oscars, Sally Hawkins, Sam Rockwell, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Willem Dafoe 0 Comments

A Telluride And Venice Update: Nothing But Winners Abound

As the biggest Festival weekend of the year comes to a close, we finally have an idea of how the awards season will shape up. We’ve seen several shocks, surprises, and disappointments, including both the rise of Downsizing at Venice and its...