Wiseguys, Killers, and Saints: Ranking the Films of Martin Scorsese from ‘Mean Streets’ to ‘GoodFellas’ to ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’
When Martin Scorsese’s debut film, Who’s That Knocking at My Door?, played at the Chicago International Film Festival in 1967, then-novice film critic Roger Ebert... Read More
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Final 2020 Oscar Predictions – THE FULL LIST
Here’s the quick and easy version of the 2020 Oscar predictions for the 92nd Academy Awards. Click each category for my full breakdown analysis and... Read More
Final 2020 Oscar Predictions – BEST PICTURE
Well, here we are. It seems like Oscar season just started yesterday (not far off, really) and it’s already time to anoint a new Best... Read More
Final 2020 Oscar Predictions – BEST DIRECTOR
It’s difficult to imagine an upset here as Sam Mendes (1917) has won the Golden Globe, tied Bong Joon Ho at the Critics Choice, DGA... Read More
Final 2020 Oscar Predictions – SUPPORTING ACTOR
Brad Pitt is a star. The ‘kind they don’t make any more’ kind of Hollywood star. This weekend he’ll win his first acting Oscar. He’s... Read More
Final 2020 Oscar Predictions – FILM EDITING
Film Editing in never an easy category when one of the Best Picture frontrunners isn’t nominated here but it’s not like it hasn’t happened before.... Read More
Final 2020 Oscar Predictions – CINEMATOGRAPHY
Let’s not waste any time. It’s 1917. Here are my ranked Final Oscar predictions in Cinematography with a chart of a decade of related precursors... Read More
Final 2020 Oscar Predictions – COSTUME DESIGN
A tight race and it’s most likely between BAFTA winner Little Women and Costume Design Guild winner Jojo Rabbit. These two films are going tooth... Read More
Final 2020 Oscar Predictions – VISUAL EFFECTS
2015’s Ex Machina blew the doors off 35 years of the Visual Effects category being the first winner since 1970’s Tora! Tora! Tora! to win... Read More
2020 Writers Guild (WGA) Awards: ‘Parasite,’ ‘Jojo Rabbit,’ ‘Succession,’ ‘Watchmen’ lead wins
The 73rd Writers Guild of America awards have anointed Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit and Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite as the best Adapted and Original Screenplays... Read More
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