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23
Feb

My Dream Oscar Ballot 2019

This Oscar season has been crazy, and as I’ve covered before, there were a lot of egregious snubs this year. So here is how my nominations ballot would have looked. For the purposes of this, I’ve limited myself to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Awards, Film, Oscars | Tagged annihilation, at eternity's gate, avengers, ballad of buster scruggs, birds of passage, black panther, blindspotting, burning, can you ever forgive me, cold war, death of Stalin, eighth grade, favourite, first man, first reformed, free solo, game night, green book, hale county, hereditary, hulu, if beale street could talk, incredibles 2, infinity war, into the spider-verse, isle of dogs, leave no trace, mary queen of scots, minding the gap, mirai, mission impossible, netflix, prime, private war, quiet place, ralph breaks the internet, ready player one, roma, shoplifters, simple favor, solo, sorry to bother you, spider-man, star is born, star wars, Suspiria, three identical strangers, vice, widows, won't you be my neighbor, you were never really here | Leave a comment

22
Feb

Oscar Guide 2019

If I was confused last year, this year I’m completely and utterly lost. The only things I’m sure about are “Shallow” winning Best Original Song and Roma winning Best Foreign Language Film. Any of this year’s other frontrunners losing to another nominee wouldn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Awards, Film, Oscars, Previews | Tagged at eternity's gate, avengers, ballad of buster scruggs, black klansman, black panther, bohemian rhapsody, border, can you ever forgive me, capernaum, christopher robin, cold war, favourite, first man, free solo, green book, hale county, hulu, if beale street could talk, incredibles 2, infinity war, into the spider-verse, isle of dogs, mary poppins returns, mary queen of scots, minding the gap, mirai, netflix, never look away, of fathers and sons, quiet place, ralph breaks the internet, rbg, ready player one, roma, shoplifters, solo, spider-man, star is born, star wars, vice, wife | Leave a comment

10
Jan

2018 in Review: Box Office Report

SURE-FIRE HITS – The Kings of the Box Office Black Panther ($700 million) Avengers: Infinity War ($678.8 million) Incredibles 2 ($608.5 million) Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom ($416.7 million) SURPRISE SUCCESSES – They got there through word-of-mouth or succeeded where others … Continue reading →

Posted in Best Of, Film | Tagged annihilation, avengers, black panther, book club, breaking in, crazy rich asians, death wish, detective chinatown 2, fantastic beasts, girl in the spider's web, halloween, i can only imagine, incredibles 2, infinity war, jurassic world, mortal engines, nutcracker, pacific rim uprising, paddington 2, predator, quiet place, ready player one, skyscraper, solo, star wars, tomb raider, truth or dare, won't you be my neighbor | Leave a comment

1
Jun

Streaming Picks: June 2018

FILMS Top Picks The Age of Innocence – Amazon 6/1 Blue Like Jazz – Amazon and Hulu 6/1 Star Wars: The Last Jedi – Netflix 6/26 Three for you this month, one on each of the major services. The first … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Previews, Television | Tagged 10 by 10, age of innocence, agents of shield, alex strangelove, ali's wedding, all or nothing, allure, babylon 5, blue like jazz, boots on the ground, brain on fire, braven, busted, churchill's secret agents, club de cuervos, cooking on high, derren brown, eurotrump, fate extra, gintama, glow, goliath, grey's anatomy, hannah gadsby, harvey street kids, heavy rescue, hollow, hotel transylvania, house october built, huntsville, hyori's bed and breakfast, if you give a mouse a cookie, la foret, lady bird, lost in oz, luke cage, lust stories, maktub, marcella, marlon, max, michelle wolf, nailed it, night shift, nostalgia, november 13, other guy, paquita salas, portlandia, precious, ranch, recovery boys, rescue me, rick and morty, secret city, sense8, set it up, staircase, star wars, suits, sunday's illness, tau, thor, to each her own, transformers, treehouse detectives, true, us and them, very english scandal, voltron, w kamau bell, waltons, we blew it, where the skin lies, wonder wheel, wynonna earp | Leave a comment

3
Mar

My Dream Oscar Ballot 2018

For the first time ever, I’d seen every nominee in all eight major categories by the time of awards ceremony. But as per usual, I was way behind on documentaries, foreign language films and animated features (not to mention shorts), … Continue reading →

Posted in Awards, Film, Oscars | Tagged baby driver, big sick, blade runner 2049, call me by your name, darkest hour, disaster artist, dunkirk, florida project, get out, good time, greatest showman, guardians of the galaxy, i tonya, kong skull island, lady bird, logan, lost city of z, molly's game, mother, mudbound, patti cakes, phantom thread, post, shape of water, star wars, three billboards outside ebbing missouri, victoria and abdul, war for the planet of the apes, wonder woman, wonderstruck | Leave a comment

2
Mar

Oscar Guide 2018

Guys, I just don’t know. With a real lack of consensus around this year’s crop of nominees, there’s no one film you can point to and say: “That’s the one to beat.” So what’s going to happen Sunday night? Sure, … Continue reading →

Posted in Awards, Film, Oscars, Previews | Tagged abacus, all the money in the world, beauty and the beast, big sick, blade runner 2049, boss baby, breadwinner, call me by your name, coco, darkest hour, disaster artist, dunkirk, faces places, fantastic woman, ferdinand, florida project, get out, greatest showman, guardians of the galaxy, i tonya, icarus, insult, kong skull island, lady bird, last men in aleppo, logan, loveless, loving vincent, marshall, molly's game, mudbound, on body and soul, phantom thread, post, roman j israel esq, shape of water, square, star wars, strong island, three billboards outside ebbing missouri, victoria and abdul, war for the planet of the apes, wonder | Leave a comment

19
Jan

Final Oscar Picks 2018

It’s been a crazy year in every regard, but especially in awards season. There’s really been no consensus on the best movie of the year from the critics’ groups or guilds. That’s kind of exciting, but makes this guesswork particularly … Continue reading →

Posted in Awards, Film, Oscars, Previews | Tagged baby driver, beauty and the beast, beguiled, big sick, blade runner 2049, boss baby, breadwinner, call me by your name, chasing coral, city of ghosts, coco, darkest hour, disaster artist, downsizing, dunkirk, fantastic woman, fifty shades of grey, florida project, foxtrot, get out, greatest showman, i tonya, icarus, in the fade, jane, lady bird, lego batman, loveless, loving vincent, marshall, molly's game, mudbound, murder on the orient express, phantom thread, post, shape of water, star wars, strong island, three billboards outside ebbing missouri, victoria and abdul, war for the planet of the apes, wonder, wound | Leave a comment

12
Jan

2017 in Review: Box Office Report

Another year, a few more record-setting films and still fewer tickets sold than any time since the 1990s. It’s only going to get worse, but it seems audiences may finally be wising up: rejecting some tired franchises and championing original … Continue reading →

Posted in Best Of, Film | Tagged alien, annabelle, baby driver, beauty and the beast, big sick, despicable me 3, emoji movie, get out, ghost in the shell, girls trip, great wall, happy death day, it, justice league, king arthur, mummy, pirates of the caribbean, star wars, transformers, valerian, war for the planet of the apes, wind river, wolf warrior 2, wonder, wonder woman | Leave a comment

10
Jan

2017 in Review: The Best and Worst Movies

It’s no surprise that in a year as polarizing as 2017, the movies this year would be just as divisive. While there was rapturous agreement about my No. 9 and No. 6 picks, people had passionate, disparate reactions to my … Continue reading →

Posted in Best Of, Film | Tagged baby driver, big sick, blade runner 2049, call me by your name, dunkirk, florida project, get out, lady bird, last flag flying, lego batman, logan, lost city of z, meyerowitz stories, molly's game, mother, mudbound, post, princess cyd, ragnarok, shape of water, star wars, thor, three billboards outside ebbing missouri, war for the planet of the apes, wind river, wonder woman | Leave a comment

20
Jan

Final Oscar Picks 2017

Just like 2016 was a year of unease, I am not very uneasy about these picks. Several of these picks haven’t picked up the precursor nods that would typically foretell a sure-fire Oscar nomination. This is likely to be a … Continue reading →

Posted in Awards, Film, Oscars, Previews | Tagged 20th century women, arrival, cameraperson, captain america, captain fantastic, civil war, deepwater horizon, doctor strange, dressmaker, elle, fences, finding dory, fire at sea, florence foster jenkins, hacksaw ridge, hell or high water, hidden figures, i am not your negro, jackie, jungle book, kubo and the two strings, la la land, land of mine, lion, lobster, man called ove, manchester by the sea, moana, moonlight, my life as a zucchini, nocturnal animals, oj simpson, paradise, rogue one, salesman, silence, sing street, star trek, star trek beyond, star wars, toni erdmann, weiner, zootopia | Leave a comment