They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for March, 2023
Money Shot: The PornHub Story (2022)
Let’s face it, PornHub redefines the idea that sex sells, just ask any of its content creators who are earning enough money through the site to buy houses and cars. PornHub, in spite of it’s potentially forbidden implications, remains a ridiculously popular site with a snarl of traffic that rivals the L.A. freeway – a […]
The 95th Oscars: The Academy Awards get back to normal . . . sort of.
Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony went off without a hitch. Nobody got slapped, and just to be sure, the Academy instituted a Crisis Team to make sure things didn’t get out of hand, so to speak. Needless-to-say, neither Will Smith nor Chris Rock were in attendance. Given the shock of last year’s incident, everyone minded their […]
My Annual (and fairly confident) Oscar predictions . . .
Best PictureAll Quiet on the Western Front | Avatar: The Way of Water | The Banshees of Inisherin | Elvis | The Fabelmans | Tár | Top Gun: Maverick | Triangle of Sadness | Woman Talking While there has been some shuffling around of frontrunners during this Oscar season, the Screen Actor’s Guild Awards and the Producer’s Guild Awards have cemented […]
The 95th Academy Awards Race: Best Director
The nominees are . . .• Todd Field for Tár• Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for Everything Everywhere All At Once • Martin McDonagh for The Banshees of Inisherin• Ruben Östlund for Triangle of Sadness• Steven Spielberg for The Fabelmans The year’s race for Best Director will likely tip with the voter’s mood. There is an ample reason to believe […]
The 95th Academy Awards Race: Best Actor
The nominees are . . . • Austin Butler in Elvis• Colin Farrell in The Banshees of Inisherin• Brendan Fraser in The Whale• Pedro Pascal in Aftersun• Bill Nighy in Living This year’s Best Actor race keeps shifting. Early on, it was thought that newcomer Austin Butler may win for playing three decades as The King in Elvis. Then he and […]
The 95th Academy Awards Race: Best Actress
The nominees are . . . . • Cate Blanchett in Tár • Ana de Armas in Blonde• Andrea Riseborough in To Leslie• Michelle Williams in The Fabelmans• Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All At Once Right or wrong, the 2023 contest for Best Actress is as fascinating as it complicated. Two overriding favorites Viola Davis and Danielle Deadwyler […]
The 95th Academy Awards Race: Best Adapted Screenplay
The Nominees are . . .• All Quiet on the Western Front by Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson & Ian Stokell; based on the book by Erich Maria Remarque• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery by Rian Johnson; based on the character Benoit Blanc from the film Knives Out by Rian Johnson• Living by Kazuo Ishiguro; based on the film Ikiru […]
The 95th Academy Awards Race: Best Original Screenplay
The nominees are . . . .• The Banshees of Inisherin by Martin McDonagh• Everything Everywhere All At Once by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert• The Fabelmans by Tony Kushner & Steven Spielberg• Tár by Todd Field• Triangle of Sadness by Ruben Östlund Herein lies the goony-bird category. The Best Original Screenplay category is traditionally where the offbeat and the strange often find […]
