The actual Oscar Blitz is off for a few more days, but that doesn't mean my fingers get a night off. We're but a week from the Academy Awards, and in most years, we'd already have all the information needed to make an educated guess at the results. That's sort of the case this year, … Continue reading Projecting the Winners – 2024 Awards Season Undercard
Last year we had legitimate suspense in three of the four acting categories. Only Ke Huy Quan's victory for Best Supporting Actor was a sure thing. This year, as I've mentioned before, is very much not the case. Supporting Actor is all but a lock for Robert Downey Jr., and being extremely generous we can … Continue reading Oscar Blitz 2024 – Supporting Actress
It's time! It's here! It's... (cue Monty Python's Flying Circus theme) THE OSCAR BLITZ! Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and everyone in between, this is the moment we've all been waiting for. This morning, Zazie Beetz and Jack Quaid announced the nominees for the 96th Academy Awards. As the action unfolded, phones across the … Continue reading Atomic BLITZ! – 96th Academy Award Nominations Revealed!
It's been a long time since we've had a truly great movie set at Christmastime that can be viewed as both a holiday treat and something to enjoy the rest of the year. A large part of that is due to the over-commercialization of the season, obviously. Year in and year out we get an … Continue reading A Roman Holiday – The Holdovers
I fully admit that I have soured on the Shrek franchise ever since Shrek the Third. The first film was innovative, silly, and was a great update for big kids like me to the old "Fractured Fairy Tales" segments from reruns of The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show that ran constantly on Nickelodeon in the 80s … Continue reading Avoiding Cat-astrophe – Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
I'm knee deep in the annual Oscar Blitz, one that has been marred by the Academy's flabbergasting decision to relegate over a third of the categories to a pre-taped ceremony. So what better time than now to highlight the absolute crap coming in the month of March that the ruling corporate powers would rather pay … Continue reading This Film is Not Yet Watchable – March 2022
Tonight we continue with our look at the "Netflix 6," the six major releases that Netflix has staggered out over the course of the fall, both in theatres and on their streaming service, in an aggressive bid for next year's Academy Awards. Last year they nearly grabbed the proverbial brass ring with Roma, scoring the most … Continue reading DownStream – Netflix and Shill, Part 2
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