Category Archives: Film

15
Jan

Final Oscar Picks 2019

BEST PICTURE Black Klansman Black Panther Bohemian Rhapsody The Favourite Green Book Roma A Star Is Born Vice Dark Horse: Crazy Rich Asians Long Shot: First Man Total Shock: If Beale Street Could Talk The skinny: This season has been … Continue reading →

Posted in Awards, Film, Oscars, Previews | Tagged avengers, ballad of buster scruggs, beautiful boy, black klansman, black panther, bohemian rhapsody, can you ever forgive me, capernaum, cold war, dumplin, eighth grade, fantastic beasts, favourite, first man, first reformed, free solo, green book, 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, mission impossible, never look away, nutcracker, quiet place, ralph breaks the internet, rbg, ready player one, roma, shoplifters, spiderman, stan and ollie, star is born, three identical strangers, vice, wife, won't you be my neighbor | Comments Off

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 | Comments Off

9
Jan

2018 in Review: The Best Performances – Film

Last year had few all-time great performances. This year, there’s an abundance. The choices in the drama categories are especially staggering. 2018 also featured my favorite comedy performance of recent times, an absolutely perfect deadpan turn from Jesse Plemons in … Continue reading →

Posted in Best Of, Film | Tagged burning, eighth grade, favourite, first reformed, game night, if beale street could talk, private war, vice, widows | Comments Off

8
Jan

2018 in Review: The Best and Worst Movies

Another incredible year for film, even if there’s a lot more “very good” and less “great” than years past. If there was an overarching theme in 2018’s movies, it was the struggle to hold onto one’s identity. Your surroundings might … Continue reading →

Posted in Best Of, Film | Tagged annihilation, ballad of buster scruggs, black klansman, black panther, blindspotting, burning, can you ever, deadpool 2, death of Stalin, eighth grade, favourite, first man, first reformed, game night, hate u give, hereditary, hulu, if beale street could talk, incredibles 2, into the spider-verse, isle of dogs, leave no trace, Mandy, minding the gap, mission impossible, netflix, old man and the gun, private war, roma, sorry to bother you, spider-man, star is born, support the girls, Suspiria, three identical strangers, tully, widows, won't you be my neighbor, you were never really here | Comments Off

1
Jan

Streaming Picks: January 2019

FILMS Top Picks Across the Universe – Netflix 1/1 Annihilation – Hulu 1/5 Eighth Grade – Prime 1/13 Across the Universe is the unjustly maligned Beatles musical from 2007. Plot-wise, well, it’s best not to think about it. But Julie … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Previews, Television | Tagged across the universe, adventures of rocky and bullwinkle, alright now, amazon, american crime story, and breathe normally, animas, annihilation, another time, ant-man and the wasp, art of the shine, atlanta, bad reputation, beautiful boy, black earth rising, brockmire, burden of truth, butterfly, call my agent, carmen sandiego, close, club de cuervos, comedians of the world, commuter, conversations with a killer, cruise, detectorists, dot, eighth grade, el potro, endeavour, fahrenheit 11/9, forever my girl, four more shots please, friends from college, future man, fyre, gabriel iglesias, girl, godzilla, grace and frankie, grand tour, hotel transylvania, hulu, incredibles 2, informer, io, jazz ambassadors, justice, kingdom, kusama, last laugh, leave no trace, lionheart, lodge 49, love gilda, medici, netflix, pagan king, pinky malinky, polar, punisher, remastered, reprisal, revenger, rwanda, saints and sinners, sebastian maniscalo, series of unfortunate events, sex education, sherlock gnomes, solo, soni, stella's last weekend, support the girls, tidying up, trigger warning, trolls, unbreakable kimmy schmidt, unicorn, when heroes fly, world's most extraordinary homes, x company, x-files, z nation | Comments Off

15
Dec

Oscar Picks: 15 Dec 2018

BEST PICTURE Black Klansman Black Panther Bohemian Rhapsody The Favourite Green Book If Beale Street Could Talk Roma A Star Is Born Vice Falling off: First Man, Widows Rising star: Mary Poppins Returns The skinny: This sucks. Two of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Awards, Film, Oscars, Previews | Tagged beautiful boy, black klansman, bohemian rhapsody, can you ever forgive me, early man, eighth grade, favourite, first man, first reformed, green book, if beale street could talk, incredibles 2, into the spider-verse, isle, ralph breaks the internet, roma, spiderman, star is born, vice, wife | Comments Off

1
Dec

Streaming Picks: December 2018

FILMS Top Picks Blue Velvet – Hulu 12/1 Roma – Netflix 12/14 Hereditary – Prime 12/27 Netflix and Prime are getting two of the best movies of the year, while Hulu has what’s probably my favorite David Lynch movie. Roma is Alfonso … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Previews, Television | Tagged 24, 3 below, 4 blocks, 5 star Christmas, 7 days out, adventure time, alexa and katie, along came the devil, amazon, american in texas, American meme, anthony bourdain, autopsy of Jane doe, avengers, back street girls, back with the ex, bad blood, bad seeds, baki, battle, before I fall, behind tasty, bill Murray stories, bird box, blue planet, blue velvet, buzzfeed unsolved, casketeers, chilling adventures of sabrina, collide, crooked somebody, crossroads, cuckoo, damsel, dance and sing, derry girls, devil's doorway, diablero, dogs of Berlin, dumplin, eating animals, Ellen Degeneres, far from the tree, fix, free rein, fuck that's delicious, fuller house, gardener, graves, great british baking show, greenleaf, happy, hereditary, hero mask, hi score girl, hook up plan, hulu, innocent man, inside the real narcos, inside the world's toughest prisons, instant hotel, into the dark, killing, la noche de 12 anos, last hope, life itself, life of crime, lol, magicians, man vs wild, marvelous mrs maisel, memories of the Alhambra, mighty magiswords, mowgli, mr pickles, nailed it, nasa, Neo yokio, netflix, nico 1988, Niko and the sword of light, ok ko let's be heroes, out of many one, parts unknown, perfume, pine gap, powerpuff girls, prince of peoria, protector, ranch, remastered, roma, runaways, say you will, selection day, sin senos si hay paraiso, Sirius the jaeger, skate kitchen, sound of your heart, springsteen on broadway, struggle, Sunderland til I die, super monsters, tales by light, terrace house, tidelands, travelers, unikitty, urban country, vanity fair, vir das, voltron, wanted, watership down, when angels sleep, winter ridge, wolf, wolfblood, wonder years, worth it, you, yummy mummies | Comments Off

15
Nov

Oscar Picks: 15 Nov 2018

BEST PICTURE The Favourite First Man Green Book If Beale Street Could Talk Roma A Star Is Born Vice Widows Falling off: None Rising star: Black Panther The skinny: Though Green Book will come on strong after its Thanksgiving opening, … Continue reading →

Posted in Awards, Film, Oscars, Previews | Tagged beautiful boy, boy erased, can you ever forgive me, favourite, first man, green book, grinch, if beale street could talk, incredibles 2, into the spider-verse, isle of dogs, on the basis of sex, ralph breaks the internet, roma, sorry to bother you, spiderman, star is born, vice, widows | 1 Comment

1
Nov

Streaming Picks: November 2018

FILMS Top Picks The Adventures of Tintin – Prime 11/1 eXistenZ – Hulu 11/1 The Other Side of the Wind/They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead – Netflix 11/2 The first two are underrated gems from the well-regarded careers of Steven … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Previews, Television | Tagged 1983, adventures of tintin, aliens and agenda 21, amazon, angela's christmas, baby, ballad of buster scruggs, baskets, beat, beat bugs, bigfoot, bisexual, boo 2, brainchild, cam, children act, christmas calendar, christmas chronicles, christmas prince, coldplay, creative galaxy, crew, damascus cover, dave attell, death by magic, dietland, downsizing, durrels in corfu, dust 2 glory, existenz, expanse, f is for family, fair game, final table, follow this, frontier, fugitiva, gotti, great british baking show, gymkhana files, happy as lazzaro, holiday calendar, holly hobbie, homecoming, house of cards, hulu, inside jokes, into the dark, jeff ross, john leguizamo, judgement, k, keepers of the magic, killer bees, kominsky method, kulipari, kung fu panda, la reina del flow, larger than life, last kingdom, little big awesome, loudon wainwright, loving pablo, luis and the aliens, madea, married with children, may the devil take you, mcqueen, medal of honor, mighty magiswords, mirzapur, motown magic, mystery science theater 3000, narcos, netflix, nina's world, oh my ghost, ordinary man, other side of the wind, outlaw king, patriot, Pete the cat, ponysitters club, prince of peoria, princess switch, rajma chawal, remastered, sabrina, sailor moon, she-ra, siberia, sick note, six, sleepless, spirit, spy kids, super drags, they'll love me when i'm dead, tiempo compartido, to build or not to build, treehouse detectives, trevor noah, trolls, under the tree, warrior, westside, wonder, world is yours | Comments Off

15
Oct

Too Early for This: Oscar Picks – 15 Oct 2018

BEST PICTURE The Favourite First Man Green Book If Beale Street Could Talk Roma A Star Is Born Vice Widows Falling off: Beautiful Boy; Mary, Queen of Scots; On the Basis of Sex Rising star: Can You Ever Forgive Me? … Continue reading →

Posted in Awards, Film, Oscars, Previews | Tagged at eternity's gate, beautiful boy, black klansman, boy erased, can you ever forgive me, favourite, first man, front runner, green book, grinch, if beale street could talk, incredibles 2, into the spider-verse, isle of dogs, on the basis of sex, ralph breaks the internet, roma, sorry to bother you, spiderman, star is born, vice, widows | Comments Off