They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for April, 2021
The 93rd Academy Awards: As strange and bizarre as the times we’re living in
This isn’t going to be the usual rundown of who won and who didn’t. This year’s Oscars were so bizarre that one can only focus on how it all went down. Really, it was hard to wrap your head around the 93rd Annual Academy Awards. The only constant has been the commentary. Waking up this […]
The Best Picture Winners: Nomadland (2020)
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 Pod Bay Doors – A Movie Podcast | Stardust Memories (1980)
This episode, Jerry asked Doug to revisit Woody Allen, which Doug did grudgingly (as explained in the episode) and Jerry chose, of all things, Stardust Memories (1980), Allen’s attempt at Fellini and Sturges while also mocking his audience and critics, it’s not one of Allen’s best…which is being generous to some, but it is worth […]
My Annual (and confidently accurate) Predictions for Oscars in every category
Oh what a year! Well . . . in terms of Oscar – 14 months! This has been the longest Oscar year in it’s 93 year history and with the shifting tides of streaming and the withering of the theater experience – plus a pandemic that shelved many of Hollywood’s key films, this year’s Oscars […]
The 2021 Best Picture Nominees: The Trial of the Chicago 7
When I saw The Trial of the Chicago 7 back in October, I was so ecstatic that I declared it one of my favorite films of the year. Let me explain. At that moment, the date was October 16th and the United States was in a crisis state. COVID-19 vaccinations were still a floating question […]
Mortal Kombat (2021)
I come to the 2021 edition of Mortal Kombat only with vague memories of having played “Mortal Kombat II” on the Sega Genesis, and a modest affection for the first screen attempt back in 1995. From what I recall, I played the game routinely without having what you might call a fixation. I recall that […]
The 2021 Best Picture Nominees: Sound of Metal
At last! After, arguably, the strangest year in movie history, The 93rd Academy Awards are almost here – just 9 days from now. And to get ready, I’m taking a look at each of the eight films selected as Oscar’s best. Are they? Are they really? Darius Marder’s Sound of Metal could easily play on a […]
The 2021 Best Picture Nominees: Promising Young Woman
At last! After, arguably, the strangest year in movie history, The 93rd Academy Awards are almost here – just 9 days from now. And to get ready, I’m taking a look at each of the eight films selected as Oscar’s best. Are they? Are they really? Okay, so this year’s Best Picture nominees made a wide […]
