I think we can all agree that Saturday Night Live is one of the most important programs in television history. Regardless of whether or not you enjoy the show or the rotating cast - I basically only watch "Weekend Update" these days, but I grew up during the 90s and early 00s Golden Era - … Continue reading Ready for Prime Time – Saturday Night
Hello everyone, and welcome to the first entry in this year's Oscar Blitz! Assuming all goes well, I'll be covering all 23 categories, either in print or video form, over the next several weeks until the big night. Who knows how the winds will change and how momentum might shift along the way? But what's … Continue reading Oscar Blitz 2024 – Original Song
I've mentioned in two recent posts some particular shortfalls in the adaptation process. The first, as it related to Freud's Last Session, was the fact that if you adapt a stage show to the screen, you have to make it look and feel like it's not a stage show, otherwise you lose any semblance of … Continue reading Resigned Celie, Delivered – The Color Purple
Awards Season is in full swing with tonight's broadcast of the completely fraudulent Golden Globes. There weren't many surprises, other than it sucking, The Boy and the Heron winning Animated Feature, and tomorrow's obituary for Jo Koy, as he will be executed at dawn by a horde of Swifties for daring to make fun of … Continue reading DownStream – The Big Red N-velope, Part One: Documentary
Debuting on the festival circuit last year before getting its theatrical release this week, Marlowe is the 100th feature film for one of cinema's greats, Liam Neeson. And it would seem that director Neil Jordan (who previously worked with Neeson in 1996 with Michael Collins) has taken the occasion as one to celebrate not just … Continue reading The Centennial – Marlowe
It's been a long time since we've had one of those crystallizing film score moments. You know what I'm talking about. Something like Star Wars or Back to the Future or Jaws. When's the last time you've heard a score cue and immediately knew what movie it was from? I think for me it would … Continue reading Oscar Gold 2021 – Original Score
This year's Golden Globe Awards are finally in the books, and after tonight, we get to pretend for the next 10 months that they don't exist, until we repeat the cycle all over again with next year's set of bribes. After three hours of technical difficulties and over a month of controversy for the latest … Continue reading The World’s Most Expensive Suppository – 78th Golden Globe Winners!
For the purposes of legal protection, I will say upfront that I can't prove that the 90+ members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association are bribed for their votes at the Golden Globes. It is merely an opinion, mostly presented tongue-in-cheek, based on the history of truly baffling nominations and awards that repeatedly smack of … Continue reading Here’s Some Money, Please Validate Me! – 78th Golden Globe Nominees Announced
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