They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
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Archive for February, 2020
The Best Picture Winners: Parasite (2019)
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have been handing out awards for more than 90 years, and the results have been spotty at best. That applied most aptly to their selections for Best Picture. In this series I am looking down the barrel at each of their selections for better and, very often, […]
The Best Picture Nominees: Parasite
The 92nd Academy Awards are just hour away, so this week I am taking a look at each of the nominees individually. Are they worth it? Let’s take a look. I’ll be honest, I walked into Bong Joon Ho’s latest escapade knowing nothing about it but the title. That’s probably a good thing because based […]
The Best Picture Nominees: Once Upon a Time …In Hollywood
The 92nd Academy Awards are just days away, so this week I am taking a look at each of the nominees individually. Are they worth it? Let’s take a look. No one can ever say that Quentin Tarantino is guilty of repeating himself. Yes, there are themes that resemble one another and he has a […]
The Best Picture Nominees: 1917
The 92nd Academy Awards are just days away, so this week I am taking a look at each of the nominees individually. Are they worth it? Let’s take a look, If Marriage Story feels like the kind of movie that fit comfortably as a Best Picture nominee, then Sam Mendes 1917 feels more like the […]
The Best Picture Nominees: Marriage Story
The 92nd Academy Awards are just days away, so this week I am taking a look at each of the nominees individually. Are they worth it? Let’s take a look. Out of all of the Best Picture nominees for 2019, Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story feels the most at home in this category. It’s a heavy […]
The Best Picture Nominees: Little Women
The 92nd Academy Awards are just days away, so this week I am taking a look at each of the nominees individually. Are they worth it? Let’s take a look. This doesn’t happen often, but I was taken completely by surprised by Greta Gerwig’s Little Women. I thought I knew what to expect. I imagined […]
The Best Picture Nominees: Joker
The 92nd Academy Awards are just days away, so this week I am taking a look at each of the nominees individually. Are they worth it? Let’s take a look. Joker is catnip for the average film critic. It is one of those deep and difficult films that is easier to write about and analyze […]
The Best Picture Nominees: Jojo Rabbit
The 92nd Academy Awards are just days away, so this week I am taking a look at each of the nominees individually. Are they worth it? Let’s take a look. Let’s face it, there are worse things that Taika Watiti could have done with the money that he made from Thor Ragnarok. To make an […]
