The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
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Weapons (2025)
I didn’t much care for Zach Cregger’s first film BARBARIAN, his 2022 thriller about a young woman’s terrifying night at an AirBNB; I recall that...
The Best Picture Winners, Part 9 | The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
Some of the Best Picture Winners have stood the test of time, becoming beloved classics . . . and then there's The Great Ziegfeld. _________________________________________All...
Oscar 2025: A Not-So-Wicked Evening as ‘Anora’ wins five awards
The Oscars proved a lot of things Sunday night, among them, sometimes you can never tell which way the voting will go, and Adam Sandler...
The Gold Rush (1925): A Year at the Movies Day 1
In a rather strange effort not to lose my writing chops, I have decided to give the year 2025 to writing some capsule reviews of...
The Best Picture Winners, Part 2 | The Broadway Melody (1928-29)
Oscar's first talkie was all-talking, all-singing, all-dancing, but in time would become all-but-forgotten.
The Best Picture Winners, Part 1 | Wings (1927-28
In my inaugural episode of my new series The Best Picture Winners, I am offering a brief history of the early years of The Motion...
