To Academy CEO Bill Kramer and President Janet Yang. What’s more exciting? An actual Best Performance acting race between Michelle Yeoh and Cate Blanchett which Yeoh deservingly won? Or the Academy door prize prematurely celebrating whose career is more over between Jamie Lee Curtis and Angela Bassett? It’s ridiculous because that’s what it feels like…
Tag: Oscars
In ‘The Fabelmans’, Spielberg Succeeds at Making His Own Myth and One of the Best Movies of the Year
Revisiting the coming of age genre for the first time since ‘Catch Me If You Can’ Spielberg crafts his most satisfying film since. Director: Steven Spielberg (West Side Story, Ready Player One, The Post) Writer: Steven Spielberg (A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Poltergeist, Close Encounters of the Third Kind) Tony Kushner (West Side Story, Lincoln, Munich) Producer Kristie…
2020 Oscar Nominations & Narratives
2020 Oscar Small Talk Conversation Pieces
Lost Review Case 102:”Gravity”
A previous post I never finished.
The 2018 Oscars That Were
The 90th Academy Awards marked change in the air, but the Academy of old suitably shouted ‘This Is Me’. By: William Hume [To every young filmmaker] This is the door. Kick it open and come in. – Guillermo del Toro, Academy Award Winning Director/ Producer of The Shape of Water Watching this year’s Academy Awards, I…
The 5 Most Heartbreaking Oscar Speeches of the 21st Century
The 90th Academy Awards are this Sunday at 8 PM EST on Disney’s ABC and it’s my favourite award show of the year because it’s the one people make the most fuss about. The pre-show Red Carpet looks are as stunning as the performances, everything and everyone is at the top of their game, except…
‘Rogue One’ Won’t be Great: 3 Reasons
1. Director 2. Nostalgia 3. Reshoots
Director’s Actors and Total Bulls**t – ‘American Hustle’ Review and Analysis
“Riotously funny and impeccably cast, American Hustle compensates for its flaws with unbridled energy and some of David O. Russell’s most irrepressibly vibrant direction.” – Rotten Tomatoes 94% on American Hustle It isn’t too often I completely disagree with the consensus on a film. Perhaps my taste is maturing but I found 90% of American Hustle…
2013’s Oscar tribute’s are to be reaped from the existing pool of victors
I guess I’ll be the first to get the ball rolling on oscar season discussions. Even if I’m not completely finished writing this article yet. I don’t know if my followers want immediacy or detail. Every year something is left out, every year people complain; some movies needed more thought or attention. Well I will…
The Efficient Procedural; Prisoners Review
Director: Dennis Villeneuve (Incendies, Polytechnique) Writer: Aaron Guzkowski (Contraband) Cinematographer: Roger Deakins (Skyfall) Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures Production Budget: $46 million Release Date: Friday, September 20th, 2013 Running Time: 2 hours and 26 minutes Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Hugh Jackman, Terrence Howard, Viola Davis, Maria Bello, Paul Dano, and Melissa Leo Plot: Two children go missing…
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