Here are the nominees for Best Picture: The Big Short Bridge of Spies Brooklyn Mad Max: Fury Road The Martian The Revenant Room Spotlight Who Should Win: All things being equal, out of these eight the film I think we’ll remember the most is ‘Mad Max’. Who Will Win: Actors are the biggest branch. Based on that […]
Here are the nominees for Best Actress in a Leading Role: Cate Blanchett – Carol Brie Larson – Room Jennifer Lawrence – Joy Charlotte Rampling – 45 Years Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn Who Should Win: Cate has been here. You can kind of feel the people are wearing on J.Law. No more ‘Hunger Games’ helps, but […]
Here are the nominees for Best Directing: The Big Short – Adam McKay Mad Max: Fury Road – George Miller The Revenant – Alejandro G. Innaritu Room – Lenny Abrahamson Spotlight – Tom McCarthy Who Should Win: In a fairly competitive year, most agreed ‘Mad Max’ was amazing (especially on the big screen), which should favor […]
(Full disclosure: one of the nominees today is one of my social media ‘friends’. But that’s really our relationship; haven’t met in the real world as I recall.) Here are the nominees for Best Adapted Screenplay: The Big Short Brooklyn Carol The Martian Room Who Should Win: The Margot Robbie scene was a little cute by […]
CHRIS: And here to present the next two awards, here is Academy Award nominee Emma Stone, and the Associate Producer of ‘Trojan War,’ Malik Aziz! (audience applause as they take the stage) EMMA: An outlaw trying to survive in a room of seven Hateful men. A woman supporting and coming to grips with her husband’s […]
Brie Larson first showed up on my radar when someone turned me on to ‘The United States of Tara.’ ‘Short Term ’12’ put her on everybody’s radar in terms of ‘OK, she can act.’ And now, ‘Room’ is justifiably giving her the chance to really do anything she wants. Told from the point of view […]
Nope wasn’t in the room Saturday night, I was (literally) down the street. But thank you internet (and the Academy) for letting us see this. I’m big on letting people know you appreciate them while they’re here to feel your appreciation. Your East Coast bias aside Spike, I can personally attest to two of the […]
I could tell you more about Nina Simone as a ‘symbol’ than I could as an actual person. ‘What Happened Miss Simone?’ is a nice in to her life story for those of you like myself. Archival footage and interviews with her musical collaborators and family fill out the story of this incredibly complex woman. […]
George Miller (again!) to the action film genre and its audience: Just my two cents, but ‘Fury Road’ is the best kick in the ass to the genre since the first ‘Bourne’ film (i.e., ‘the rest of you have gotten lazy and keep falling on the same cliches, this is how you keep the audience […]
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