Ranking the 2021 Oscars Best Picture Nominees

Ranking the 2021 Oscars Best Picture Nominees

The Oscars are finally here! After a chaotic, unorthodox cinematic year in which we were uncertain if there were going to be Oscars given out this year, we are finally getting our annual ceremony. 2020 was an incredible year for movies, pandemic or not, and this year’s Best Picture showcases that. This is the first Best Picture lineup since 2017 that I’ve liked every nominee. I don’t necessarily love every nominee, but over half of…

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Review: Thunder Force

Review: Thunder Force

      Thunder Force marks the fifth film in which Melissa McCarthy has been directed by Ben Falcone, a frequent co-star of McCarthy films and her real-life husband. As a comedic duo on screen, McCarthy and Falcone are excellent and play off each other seamlessly (the best example of this would be the airplane scene in 2011’s Bridesmaids). But as an actor-director duo, the results haven’t been as successful. McCarthy, a two-time Oscar nominee,…

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Review – Godzilla vs Kong

Review – Godzilla vs Kong

        The title of the movie says it all. In one corner we have Godzilla, the giant blue-fire breathing lizard who scours the ocean and has a nose for other monsters roaming the Earth. In the other corner, King Kong, the giant gorilla who rules the mysterious Skull Island. Though having already met in 1963′ King Kong vs. Godzilla, the two cinematic behemoths have never met on a scale of this level…

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Review – Nobody

Review – Nobody

        Bob Odenkirk is latest actor over fifty years old to get an “old guy kicks ass” movie, following in the footsteps of actors like Liam Neeson, Jackie Chan, Pierce Brosnan, Kevin Costner, Denzel Washington, and Keanu Reeves (you might not think Keanu counts, but he was 50 when he made John Wick) who have made these kind of movies before, some turning them into franchises. Looking at the list of actors I…

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SXSW 2021 Reviews – The Lost Sons, Sound of Violence, The Spine of Night

SXSW 2021 Reviews – The Lost Sons, Sound of Violence, The Spine of Night

Here are my reviews of The Lost Sons, Sound of Violence, and The Spine of Night from the 2021 SXSW Film Festival.         THE LOST SONS   In April of 1964, a baby was stolen from a Chicago hospital and nobody knew who or why it happened. A few months later, a toddler is abandoned and people begin to wonder if this could be the baby that stolen roughly a year ago. The Lost Sons takes a look…

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SXSW 2021 Reviews – Broadcast Signal Intrusion, The Oxy Kingpins

SXSW 2021 Reviews – Broadcast Signal Intrusion, The Oxy Kingpins

Here are my reviews of Broadcast Signal Intrusion and The Oxy Kingpins from the 2021 SXSW Film Festival.       BROADCAST SIGNAL INTRUSION   Broadcast Signal Intrusion is the cinematic equivalent of a NASCAR driver driving a perfect race, having the lead the entire race only to have his tires blow out in the final lap. It is a film that for the first two acts and even part of the third act, the film was spectacular. I was…

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Review – Zack Snyder’s Justice League

Review – Zack Snyder’s Justice League

        Reviewing Zack Snyder’s Justice League is quite the bizarre task. How does one rate this movie? Do they rate it with knowledge of the 2017 version, which saw director Zack Snyder leave the project for personal reasons, only to be replaced by director Joss Whedon and the film end up being a complete dud? Does one rate it pretending the 2017 one doesn’t exist (even though it 100% does and Zack Snyder is…

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SXSW 2021 Review – The End of Us, Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil

SXSW 2021 Review – The End of Us, Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil

Here are my reviews of The End of Us and Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil from the 2021 SXSW Film Festival.       THE END OF US   The 2021 SXSW Film Festival is the second film festival I have covered in 2021, following the Sundance Film Festival back in January. Between these two festivals, I have noticed that we have a new growing subgenre on our hands: the COVID comedy. These are small, micro-budget, largely improvised…

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Review – The Courier

Review – The Courier

        The Courier is a Cold War thriller that looks at an ordinary man and his involvement in the Cold War. This is a true story about Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch), a charming British businessman who is brought on by MI6 and the C.I.A. to help get information from Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze), a high ranking Russian officer who is willing to give out Russian secrets in order to get out of the…

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Review – Cherry

Review – Cherry

        For the better part of a decade, Anthony and Joe Russo had been living in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Starting in 2014 with Captain America: Winter Soldier, the Russo Brothers went on to also make Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War, three critical and box office smashes and some of the most important movies in the MCU franchise. But with 2019’s Avengers: Endgame, the Russo Brothers made the biggest film in the…

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