Category Archives: Previews

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Dec

Netflix Picks: December 2017

A programming note: This will be the final appearance of this column, as I plan to focus on a wider variety of streaming options beginning in 2018. TOP PICK – FILM Bright – 12/22 David Ayer has been hit or … Continue reading →

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15
Nov

Oscar Picks: 15 Nov 2017

BEST PICTURE Call Me by Your Name Darkest Hour Dunkirk Get Out Lady Bird Phantom Thread The Post Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Falling off: The Greatest Showman, Last Flag Flying, Murder on the Orient Express, Wonderstruck Rising star: The … Continue reading →

Posted in Awards, Film, Oscars, Previews | Tagged all the money in the world, beguiled, big sick, boss baby, call me by your name, coco, darkest hour, despicable me 3, disaster artist, dunkirk, florida project, get out, greatest showman, i tonya, lady bird, lego batman, loving vincent, molly's game, mudbound, murder on the orient express, novitiate, phantom thread, post, shape of water, stronger, three billboards outside ebbing missouri, victoria and abdul | Comments Off

1
Nov

Netflix Picks: November 2017

TOP PICK – FILM Mudbound – 11/17 Dee Rees goes for Oscar glory in this heavy historical drama about two soldiers – one white, one black – struggling to re-adjust to their lives in rural Mississippi after World War II. … Continue reading →

Posted in Previews, Television | Tagged alias grace, beat bugs, big family cooking showdown, blazing transfer students, brian regan, broadchurch, christmas prince, cuba and the cameraman, deray davis, dinotrux, fate apocrypha, frontier, glitch, glitter force doki doki, godless, good morning call, guerra de idolos, killer, king duckling, lady dynamite, longmire, luna petunia, many faces of ito, mea culpa, mudbound, my little pony, netflix, project mc2, punisher, saving capitalism, she's gotta have it, shot in the dark, spirit, stranger, stretch armstrong, ten percent, trailer park boys, under arrest | Comments Off

15
Oct

Too Early for This: Oscar Picks – 15 Oct 2017

BEST PICTURE Darkest Hour Dunkirk The Greatest Showman Last Flag Flying Murder on the Orient Express Phantom Thread The Post Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Wonderstruck Falling off: Detroit; Downsizing; Goodbye, Christopher Robin Rising star: Call Me by Your Name … Continue reading →

Posted in Awards, Film, Oscars, Previews | Tagged all the money in the world, beguiled, big sick, boss baby, call me by your name, coco, darkest hour, despicable me 3, dunkirk, get out, greatest showman, i tonya, lady bird, last flag flying, lego batman, loving vincent, marshall, molly's game, murder on the orient express, phantom thread, post, stronger, three billboards outside ebbing missouri, victoria and abdul, wonderstruck | Comments Off

1
Oct

Netflix Picks: October 2017

TOP PICK – FILM The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) – 10/13 I’ll trash Greenberg till the day I die, but Noah Baumbach has been on an upswing lately with Frances Ha, While We’re Young and Mistress America. And maybe, just … Continue reading →

Posted in Previews, Television | Tagged 1922, alex fernandez, babysitter, christina p, day i met el chapo, death and life of marsha p johnson, fe de eterras, fosters, haters back off, id-0, joan didion, judah friedlander, kingdom of us, la querida del centauro, lego city, lock up, meyerowitz stories, mindhunter, netflix, one of us, patton oswalt, pj masks, rodney carrington, schitt's creek, skylanders academy, slasher, stranger things, suburra, super monsters, voltron, wanted, west coast customs, wheelman, word party, zumbo's just desserts | Comments Off

17
Sep

2017 Emmy Predictions: Limited Series and Made-for-TV Movies

LIMITED SERIES Big Little Lies (HBO) Fargo (FX) Feud: Bette and Joan (FX) Genius (Nat Geo) The Night Of (HBO) Could win: Fargo Should win: The Night Of Will win: Big Little Lies Should have been nominated: N/A MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE … Continue reading →

Posted in Awards, Previews, Television | Tagged american crime, big little lies, black mirror, christmas of many colors, fargo, feud, genius, hbo, immortal life of henrietta lacks, netflix, night of, sherlock, wizard of lies | Comments Off

16
Sep

2017 Emmy Predictions: Drama

DRAMA SERIES Better Call Saul (AMC) The Crown (Netflix) The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu) House of Cards (Netflix) Stranger Things (Netflix) This Is Us (NBC) Westworld (HBO) Could win: The Crown Should win: Stranger Things Will win: This Is Us Should … Continue reading →

Posted in Awards, Previews, Television | Tagged americans, better call saul, crown, handmaid's tale, hbo, homeland, house of cards, how to get away with murder, hulu, netflix, orange is the new black, ray donovan, stranger things, this is us, westworld | Comments Off

15
Sep

2017 Emmy Predictions: Comedy and Variety

COMEDY SERIES Atlanta (FX) Black-ish (ABC) Master of None (Netflix) Modern Family (ABC) Silicon Valley (HBO) Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix) Veep (HBO) Could win: Atlanta Should win: Master of None Will win: Veep Should have been nominated: The Good Place … Continue reading →

Posted in Awards, Previews, Television | Tagged atlanta, baskets, better things, billy on the street, blackish, documentary now, drunk history, full frontal, grace and frankie, hbo, james corden, jimmy kimmel, john oliver, last week tonight, late late show, late night, late show, master of none, modern family, mom, netflix, portlandia, real time, samantha bee, saturday night live, seth meyers, shameless, silicon valley, snl, stephen colbert, tracey ullman, transparent, unbreakable kimmy schmidt, veep | Comments Off

1
Sep

Netflix Picks: September 2017

BEST BET – FILM Carol – 9/20 One of the best films of 2015 was this romance that got six Oscar nominations, which still wasn’t enough. Adapted from Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Price of Salt, this is an LGBT drama … Continue reading →

Posted in Previews, Television | Tagged american vandal, big mouth, blacklist, bojack horseman, carol, club de cuervos, confession tapes, dark matter, fabrizio copano, first they killed my father, fuller house, gerald's game, gotham, greenhouse academy, jack whitehall, jeff dunham, jerry seinfeld, joaquin reyes, lego elves, little evil, magic school bus, marc maron, murder maps, narcos, offspring, our souls at night, paul hollywood, portlandia, project mc2, real rob, reality high, resurface, spirit, strong island, terrace house, veggie tales, veggietales, walking dead | Comments Off

15
Aug

Too Early for This: Oscar Picks – 15 Aug 2017

BEST PICTURE Detroit Downsizing Dunkirk Goodbye, Christopher Robin The Greatest Showman Last Flag Flying Murder on the Orient Express The Papers Phantom Thread Wonderstruck The skinny: We always start with 10, because nobody knows anything at this point. The only … Continue reading →

Posted in Awards, Film, Oscars, Previews | Tagged beguiled, big sick, call me by your name, coco, despicable me 3, detroit, downsizing, dunkirk, goodbye christopher robin, greatest showman, last flag flying, lego batman, lego ninjago, loving vincent, marshall, mary magdalene, molly's game, mother, murder on the orient express, papers, phantom thread, roman j israel esq, shape of water, three billboards outside ebbing missouri, wonderstruck | Comments Off