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The Best Picture Winners, Part 4: Cimarron (1930-31)

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The Best Picture Winners, Part 4: Cimarron (1930-31)

It’s a forgotten western that beat ‘City Lights’, ‘Dracula’, ‘Frankenstein’, ‘The Front Page’, ‘Morocco’, ‘The Public Enemy’ and ‘Little Caesar’ to a Best Picture prize, but history would have the last laugh.

| August 2, 2024
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The Best Picture Winners Part 3: All Quiet on the Western Front (1929-30)

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The Best Picture Winners Part 3: All Quiet on the Western Front (1929-30)

The most devastating war of the 20th century inspired a lot of terrible things, but it did inspire one of the greatest and most enduring anti-war statements ever put on film. But, is it truly anti-war? [CLICK ON THE VIDEO]

| July 1, 2024
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My annual (and confidently accurate) Oscar predictions

My annual (and confidently accurate) Oscar predictions

My prediction accuracy remains about 90%, adding in for surprises.  This year, it’s best to best on Christopher Nolan and Oppenheimer. Best PictureThe Nominees:American Fiction | Anatomy of a Fall | Barbie | The Holdovers | Killers of the Flower Moon | Maestro | Oppenheimer | Past Lives | Poor Things | The Zone of […]

| March 9, 2024
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