Here are this year’s nominees for Best Picture: Call Me By Your Name Darkest Hour Dunkirk Get Out Lady Bird Phantom Thread The Post The Shape of Water Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Who I’m Cheering For: Come on… Who Should Win: Last year (I think) established unless you have ‘Titantic’, nobody really knows until the […]
Here are the nominees for Best Actress in a Leading Role: Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Margot Robbie – I, Tonya Saorise Ronan – Lady Bird Meryl Streep – The Post Who I’m Cheering For: I don’t know if anyone here completely ‘doesn’t belong’ this […]
Here are the nominees for Best Actor in a Leading Role: Timothee Chalamet – Call Me By Your Name Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour Denzel Washington – Roman J Israel Esq. Who I’m Cheering For: Multiple names I admire on this list, but looking at […]
Here are the nominees for Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Mary J. Blige – Mudbound Allison Tanney – I, Tonya Lesley Manville – Phantom Thread Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird Octavia Spencer – The Shape of Water Who I’m Cheering For: You know how a part of you always remembers someone from the first […]
Here are the nominees for Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project Woody Harrelson – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Richard Jenkins – The Shape of Water Christopher Plummer – All the Money in the World Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Who Should Win: Hmmm. I thought […]
‘Strong Island’ is another film that’s compelling both for what’s on screen, and also for how perfectly timely it is with larger discussions happening in 2018 America. Nominated this year in the Best Documentary – Feature category, the skeleton of the story is way too familiar to everyone now: a young black man is […]
Nominated for Best Documentary Feature, ‘Icarus’ is one of those films where the larger implications stick with you a little more than what you see on the screen. Especially right now… Doing well but never really excelling as a cyclist, Bryan Fogel (also our narrator) hooks up with Girgory Rodchenkov, a leading Russian scientist […]
Definitely lost in the phenomenon of ‘Black Panther’ this weekend, Chris Rock has a new stand up special on Netflix. As much as I love Chappelle, some of his silliness isn’t working the same way it did years ago. ‘Tambourine’ is interesting just to see how Rock is adapting and changing as life […]
Malcolm X, Do the Right Thing, Coming to America…Black Panther is in the pantheon of great black films, immediately. So what can I say that hasn’t been hot taked to death already? I picked a few things… Stakes – Yes, I’m going to use ‘the Dark Knight’ as one of the best examples, but it’s […]
The weekend! Next week? All movie reviews here. So wanted to bring the heat to start a three day weekend (for most of us). Forgot how much funny this video was. Busta was THE Guy for a minute. Back Monday night to give my thoughts on Wakanda on the big screen. Enjoy the long […]
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