After a delay due to the massive LA wildfires, the Academy announced their nominations for the upcoming Oscar ceremony. As per usual, there was some good and some not so good nominations. My fake Oscar ballot and top 10 movies will becoming later in the month/early Feb but let’s do a quick forensic dive into
Leave it to Steven Soderbergh to help 2025 kick off with one of its most intriguing films. Presence, which hits theaters this week, is a ghost story, haunted house, familial drama, and formal exercise all rolled up in one. The film follows a family (Lucy Liu, Chris Sullivan, Callina Liang, Eddy Maday) who move into
Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a wonderful evening and are looking forward to the year ahead. Speaking of 2025, are you ready to dive into the new movie year? I thoroughly enjoy doing these pieces even though they take forever and I am thrilled for what it looks like we’ll get from film
Mufasa: The Lion King is the newest in the live action Disney film canon and arguably the most risky despite the many elements that have been brought together. Despite not being totally successful, the film does manage to conjure up some simple pleasures that will help pass the time. Mufasa: The Lion King tells the
The Hollywood Creative Alliance has announced the nominees for the 2024 Astra Film Awards and Astra Creative Arts Awards. The organization will host two ceremonies – a luncheon and dinner – on Sunday, December 8, 2024 at the Taglyan Complex in Los Angeles. Both ceremonies will be recorded and streamed on KNEKT.tv and YouTube. Actor,
What is this feeling so sudden and new? A new movie musical of me to review. My pulse is rushing, my head is reeling, my face is flushing…from trying to figure out how to quantify my thoughts on Wicked, Universal’s big budget adaptation of the blockbuster musical which itself was based off the book by