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 guys are bad, the action is slick and the dames well…with a title like Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, you kind of know what the dames will be like.
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 calm before everything begins to hit. In the next three months, we’ll be inundated with festivals, premieres and reviews so here’s some picks before that happens.
If you loiter on the interwebs as I tend to do, you’ll often come across articles that have you perplexed. This occurred to me yesterday, during the longest day EVER, when I read a piece over on the site Shadow and Act, titled The Gentrification of Black Film. In said article, author Tanya Steele delivers
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!
You guys, Guardians of the Galaxy is what we were all hoping it would be. A fun, thrilling, pop colored concotion of fun jokes, thrilling action, and a rag tag group of heroes that include a talking raccoon and a sentient tree. Marvel has figured out the perfect way to tap into our inner fan and with Guardians of the Galaxy has found a great film to fits its mold and expand the universe.