Review: James Mangold’s ‘Ford v Ferrari’ steps on the gas and never lets up
Matt Damon and Christian Bale star as two racing legends at the center of a duel for vehicular dominance that’s a thrill ride with an... Read More
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Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: Marty vs Marvel; Nigeria disqualified from contention
A few weeks ago (was it only a few weeks?) Martin Scorsese made an off-hand comment in an interview with Empire magazine that Marvel movies... Read More
Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: Bombshells, Bales and Marches
Hot off the first screenings of Bombshell, which vaulted Charlize Theron and Margot Robbie up Oscar predictions charts everywhere (including mine), another unseen December release,... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: BEST PICTURE (October)
Where there was green, now there is a sea of red. The top is pretty much the same as last month (just one drop and... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: SOUND EDITING & SOUND MIXING (October)
War movies and space travel. Those two genres so often dominate the sound categories and this year is no different. Universal’s WWI epic 1917 and... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: FILM EDITING & CINEMATOGRAPHY (October)
Some movement in Film Editing this month with James Mangold’s race car drama Ford v Ferrari moving into the pole position. It’s a tough call... Read More
Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: It’s peach season as ‘Parasite’ ripens this weekend
The big news this week was the official list from the Academy of the record-breaking 93 countries that will compete for the (newly named) International... Read More
Frontrunner Friday: ‘The Irishman,’ ‘1917,’ ‘Richard Jewell,’ light up the Oscar race
It’s the first Frontrunner Friday of the 2019-2020 Oscar season and for good reason: since the September Oscar predictions we’ve had Netflix’s The Irishman screen... Read More
Screen Actors Guild Predictions (Motion Picture)
What do we know about the Screen Actors Guild when it comes to nominations? First, the group represents about 160,000 actors, radio personalities, even puppeteers.... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: BEST PICTURE (September)
In a post-Venice/Telluride/TIFF world there’s a lot of green to be seen on this month’s Best Picture chart. Some films found their places locked and... Read More
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