If I Had an Emmy Ballot: The Best of 2016-2017 TV

Well, those Emmy nominations were interesting weren’t they? With no Game of Thrones this year, it seemed we got the weirdest set of nominees I can remember. So what better to do than to drop my own weird list of nominees. I tried to spread the wealth but the cream rose to the top. Here’s

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Oscar Nominations

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

Final Pre-Nomination Oscar Predictions

The Oscar nominations are tomorrow morning and aside from La La Land racking up a ton of nominations, not much else seems certain. How many Best Picture nominees will we get? I have the 10 listed that I think have a strong chance of being nominated, but I think we’ll get 8, with Fences and

Oscar Predictions: The Birth of a Nation and NYFF update

We are now past phase 1 of the fall festival circuit, which we chatted about on the latest podcast, and are now in the NYFF phase 2, so it’s as good a time as any to update predictions. But first some analysis: 1. Remember how I said this was an awesome year for Black movies?