Dunkirk – The Sacred Wall

90th Academy Awards: ‘The Shape Of Water’ Wins Four, Including Best Picture

After month after grueling month of turning tides, twisting roads and multiple awards, we have finally seen the Academy Awards name The Shape of Water as the Best Picture of the Year. Guillermo del Toro’s touching fantasy fairy tale love story...

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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...

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Friday Night Dinners: Explaining The Preferential Ballot

How Does The Preferential Ballot Work? Welcome to another edition of Friday Night Dinners! This is my semi-regular segment where I try to break down some sort of Big Picture idea in the realm of pop culture. This week, we’re going to be taking a...

02/23/2018 Travis Burgess Dunkirk, Friday Night Dinners, Get Out, Lady Bird, Moonlight, Oscars, Preferential Ballot, Spotlight, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri 0 Comments

90th Academy Awards Predictions: Predicting An Unpredictable Race

The Oscars are a little over a week away. Before I post final predictions, I want to lay out a map for you all about where we are in the race. Because, quite frankly, this is the craziest, most insane year of the Oscars I have ever witnessed. Oh...

02/22/2018 Travis Burgess 90th Academy Awards, Baby Driver, Dunkirk, Final Predictions, Get Out, Lady Bird, Oscars, 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

The Top Ten Films Of 2017: A “Wednesday” Listicle

2017 has truly been a remarkable year for film. It’s really hard to put into words what we’ve just gone through without people realizing. While 2013 and 2007 were fairly remarkable, and there were one or two years from the 90s worth mentioning, I...

02/04/2018 Travis Burgess Baby Driver, Best of 2017, Blade Runner 2049, Brigsby Bear, Call Me By Your Name, Dunkirk, Get Out, I Tonya, Lady Bird, The Big Sick, The Shape of Water, Top Ten Films, Wednesday Listicles 0 Comments

90th Academy Award Nominations: Who’s In, Who’s Out, And Who Surprised

Well, nobody said this race was going to be easy. The Oscar nominations are here, and they have done their best to make this as challenging as possible, even if I managed to go a personal best 90/122 (and 5/5 in Best Actress, Original Screenplay...

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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 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...

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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...

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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...