Welcome to a new Awardswatch series, Worst Picture/Best Picture from the mind of Jeff Beachnau. In 1929, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences... Read More
Film Reviews
Here is a wonderful piece on Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel from one of Awardswatch’s most esteemed members, Alex Bean. It’s featured on his... Read More
Amidst the increasingly stale Oscar race, where the nominations have been announced and all but a couple races have been set, the Sundance Film Festival... Read More
Ben Stiller’s new film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty suffers from something I would call “Zach Snyder Syndrome.” It’s where a film is loaded... Read More
In Spike Jonze’s latest film Her, Joaquin Phoenix plays Theodore Twombly, a professional letter-writer for-hire who composes personal correspondence with his creative mind, sensitive nature,... Read More
Cinematically speaking, there are few places more moving, more honestly heartbreaking than on the big screen with a lone character struggling to survive. To be... Read More
I had read Cormac McCarthy’s script for The Counselor earlier this year. Like you will no doubt hear in other reviews of the film itself,... Read More
In matters regarding a historical time frame, accuracy is key in presenting a story so that people can understand what occurred, and to give us... Read More
2013 seems to be the year of survival stories. From Gravity to All is Lost and here with Captain Phillips the one man (or woman)... Read More
Since Alfonso Cuarón’s audacious dystopian sci-fi film, Children of Men, was released in 2006, cinephiles everywhere have been wondering how, and later as the years ticked... Read More
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