It’s never fun when it feels like something is going to be a clean sweep. La La Land, poised to clean house at the 89th Academy Awards is nominated for 14 awards, tying with All About Eve and Titanic for most nominations for a single film. Whether or not it deserves that, well, this isn’t a …
I was excited at the prospect of dusting off my Lonely Reviewer cap and jumping into the fray again by discussing this year’s top Oscar nominees and my predictions and hopefuls. If you’re going to make a triumphant return, why not dive back in during one of film’s busiest, buzziest times? Then I got the list of nominees …
Instead of asking ‘why so serious,’ perhaps the question should be, ‘are they serious?’ The answer is a simple one: yes they are. ‘They’ are the fans of Christopher Nolan and ‘The Dark Knight.’ If toppling box office records wasn’t enough, they now have their eyes on a bigger prize: Oscar gold. A website, Dark …
The Oscar nominations will be announced on January 22nd next year, instead of the usual January 20th. Why would they do that, you may be asking. Well, someone at the Academy was looking at the calendar and noticed that the Presidential inauguration is also scheduled for January 20th. Figuring that a press conference was easier …
Kevin Spacey, we’ve been been there for good times, and we’ve been there with bad.
Admittedly, I am somewhat out of the loop when it comes to the Academy Awards. I, like everyone who comes to this site, love movies and I realize that, in theory, this is our Super Bowl. But two things kept me from tuning in each year: 1. Award shows never appealed to me. I always …