Yes, We Should Rally for Diversity at the Oscars
You know, I contemplated not even addressing diversity and the Oscars past the brief thing I wrote on my Oscar analysis. But after a few days of seeing foolery going around the web, a rant has built up...
View ArticleThe Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Oscar Nominations
Well, the Oscar nominations were announced and they were as I predicted and as I didn’t. Let’s do some quick analysis of the nominations. After this analysis you can see just how well I did in each...
View ArticleOscar Predictions: Final Pre-Nom Picks
Well guys, D-Day is almost here. The Academy will be unveiling their nominations for the Oscars tomorrow and for once, we really don’t know all of what we will get. Will the category fraud convo derail...
View ArticleOscar Predictions: Who Goes Where?
I hope you all enjoyed your Christmas time. Here’s a new set of Oscar predictions. At this point the only race I’m entirely unsure about is supporting actress. There’s been so much category fraud and...
View ArticleOscar Predictions: How’d We Get Here?
So many shortlists have been dropped and so much has changed in the race (where did this Trumbo and The Big Short love come from?). This set of Oscar predictions, I really tried to divorce myself from...
View ArticleOscar Predictions: Creed Rising
You will notice that many changes have been made to these predictions (cause I haven’t done a set in a billion years). Anyways, here are some new Oscar predictions. They are now ranked in each category...
View ArticleOscar Predictions: It’s Been a Long Time
You will notice that many changes have been made to these predictions (cause I haven’t done a set in a billion years). Anyways, here are some new Oscar predictions. They are now ranked in each category...
View ArticleOn the Floor #20: We Go Ham(ilton) for New Music, Scream Queens, Empire and...
So much is discussed in this ep including but not limited to Hamilton and the history of game changing musicals, the premieres of Empire and Scream Queens, and get you primed for Oscar season. The post...
View ArticleList-Mania!
Are you guys on Letterboxd? If not you should totally get accounts, its a really great service that allows you to grade and review movies, make awesome lists, and see what other people think about...
View ArticleOscar Predictions Update: Well Who Knows…
Now that I am out of the Comic Con grinder, I figured it was time to do, reporting on and discussing films that haven’t come out yet!…wait…I might have misjudged this. Anyways, here are my newest set...
View ArticleBest Picture Decision: Which Combination is Right?
Five. Ten. Sliding Scale. These are the terms folks in Awards blogosphere use to describe the Academy’s choices for Best Picture. The Academy recently had a meeting to decide upon what they want to go...
View ArticleThe Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Academy Awards
So the Academy Awards are over, thank goodness. A lot happened, jokes were said, awards were won, but now it’s time to look at the stuff that worked and didn’t. The Good 1. Big Hero 6 and Alexandre...
View ArticleMy Final Oscar Predictions
Well, the time is almost upon us. Ballots were finally turned in yesterday and we have one of the more interesting Oscar races that we’ve had in a while. This makes for some wonderful television but as...
View ArticleOscar Nomination Analysis
Well we’ve finally heard from the Academy on what they consider some of the best in film this year and like most Oscar nomination mornings we got some shocks. I didn’t wake up at the crack of dawn to...
View ArticleOscar Predictions Update: Oscar Nom Eve
‘Twas the night before Oscar nominations and all the bloggers/critics/awards enthusiasts are hedging their bets at what will be announced tomorrow. For me, this has been one incredibly interesting...
View ArticleOscar Predictions Update: New Year, New Predixs
Happy New Year to all of you! I hope you are excited cause we are heading into the home stretch before the Globes announce their winners and the Oscars announce their nominees. Because of this, the...
View ArticleOscar Predictions Update: Post-Toronto Thoughts
Well the Toronto Film Festival has ended, and though I have barely paid attention to this or Telluride it seems like I should update my Oscar predictions. -The Imitation Game came away with the...
View ArticleOscar Prediction Update: The Calm Before the Storm of Festivals
The subtitle to this post could be a Game of Thrones book, no? Well the Oscar season often feels as though you are going toe to toe with the Mountain for months on end, and right now is sort of the...
View ArticleOscar Prediction Update: Into the Interstellar Boyhood?
Oscar predicting is going to start to get serious (for some) soon and given the summer’s slate of movies, that is possibly a good thing. Anyways, here’s some analysis and predixs! -First off, it seems...
View ArticleIf I Had Been Given an Oscar Ballot…
The Oscars are over but I still have a few things to say about the 2013 film year, one of the most diverse slates of films we’ve been given. I did one quick perusal of the year and decided what I...
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