Aretha Franklin delivered a word when she uttered the iconic phrase “Great gowns, beautiful gowns” when asked about how she felt about Taylor Swift as an artist. The phrase was quite the backhanded compliment and entered the lexicon as a great way to explain things that have style but no depth. While Cruella isn’t quite
Free thoughts on the proceedings of the Critics Choice Awards nominations. The Good First Man showing up. I still hate the score, but this movie deserves some love for its other technical elements and the performances of Gosling and Foy. The TV nominations seem particularly inspired. You’ve got lots of love for One Day at
Hello everyone and Happy New Year! I hope that you all had a great time last night and are ready for the new year. As is my tradition, I compiled a list of movies that I am anticipating for the year, and like last year’s list, this one contains 50 entries. When I was working
So guys, can we chat about this Oscar season? I don’t know about you but this year feels both weirdly exciting and incredibly dull at the same time. This might just be a product of the fact that this year has been garbage but every time I have tried to edit these Oscar predictions my
Two film festivals down, many more to go. We have officially entered into the Oscar predicting season. Toronto is ahead followed by NYFF and AFI, which will probably make these predictions hilarious in hindsight. Anyways here are my thoughts and Oscar predictions: The surest thing amongst anyone’s predictions is Dunkirk showing up in a ton
Well wonderful people, the Oscar nominations are in and for the most part, they’re exactly what we thought they would be give or take a few. So here’s my quick analysis of them. The Good 1. All of the love for Hell or High Water, Moonlight, and Hidden Figures. 2. A record 6 black actors