How did the Emmy awards sneak up on me like this? Did you all realize they were this coming Sunday? It’s been very interesting that this year, despite the really exciting nominees, this year’s Emmys don’t seem that exciting. That doesn’t mean that I won’t do a final round of Emmy predictions, so never fear! Anyways, I have faith in about 2 of these picks so take them with a grain of salt.
I’m a bit late on posting this but in my defense it’s because I cannot stop listening to this track Dark Horse that Katy Perry put out. Seriously, this song is pretty great and the beat is insane. I haven’t the slightest clue why Juicy J is working with all these white people now but if he keeps turning tracks out, I would even be mad. Check out the track!
The Toronto Film Festival is over, giving us a brief respite before the next festival, New York Film Festival and the race has started to take shape. 12 Years a Slave has all but ran away with the buzz and won the Audience Award, overwhelming other movies in terms of praise and is looking locked and loaded for some nominations. But can it win? ANd what does the film outlook show us given all the films that have now been seen? Let’s dig in with a new set of Oscar Predictions.
Well as the title says, you can’t win them all. That’s a lesson I kinda learned when I did an assignment for cinematography this past week. We were told to take 5-7 photos of either lost and found or mistaken identity and to pick some interesting angles or compositions. This did not go as I would have hoped for various reasons. I didn’t really have a set story but loosely these photos are a guy get lost in the library and finds his group member.
Fall is a busy time for most people, but especially those who are invested in film and tv shows such as I. Hope springs eternally for the TV networks as they bring back their ratings hits and try and introduce new TV shows, hoping they will be hits as well. I took a gander at the 59+ show slate of fall premieres and decided to pick 10 new and returning tv shows that I’d be most excited to watch. Here’s the list!
Review originally published at Awards Circuit during the Sundance Film Festival.
Kill Your Darlings is a perfect example of how one can tell a familiar story in a unique, fascinating way. Many are familiar with the Beats generation, but the way debut director Johnathan Krokidas and co-writer Austin Bunn see it you haven’t seen the definitive version of the tale till you see their film. Kill Your Darlings is a fascinating sojourn into the origin story of the Beats, kind of like The Avengers: Beats Edition set in the backdrop of the suffocating rigidity of 1944 Columbia University with a sharp script filled with an incredible social commentary. In short, it’s one of the best films I’ve seen so far at Sundance.