The last time we saw the Avengers, half of them were turning into dust after Thanos snapped his fingers and eliminated half of all the living beings in the galaxy. In one of the post-credit sequences following Avengers: Infinity War, we saw Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) watch chaos and pandemonium go down around him and he immediately orders the Code Red, and proceeds to take out a communication device and…
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I haven’t done one of these lists in a while. I got caught up with Sundance in January and February was a tough month personally. But it’s back now and it is a perfect month to bring this back. March has become a pretty good month for movies over the years and this year, it’s a great one. Featuring a fun little thriller I saw last year, one of the biggest movies of the year,…
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It’s Oscar night! The one night a year where we celebrate everything that is great cinema! Regardless of how I feel about the nominees, I love Oscar night and I love everything that goes into the show. It’s big, glitzy, absurd, but it’s always a great time to watch and see the winners, especially ones that I like. With that being said, here are my predictions for tonights ceremony. This is a crazy year with…
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Over the past few years, the Best Actress field has been loaded with terrific performances and 2018 was no different. I could have easily expanded the 2018 field to ten nominees and I still would have snubbed a few. This year’s nominees are all incredibly strong and are all from incredibly strong films that they carry. With a nice mix of newcomers and veterans, including an actress who has never acted before battling it out…
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Of the four acting categories, Best Supporting Actor is always my favorite. This is a category that is always up in the air in terms of who is going to be nominated. Will it be a past winner? A wily veteran looking for their due? A hot up-and-coming actor making a splash? A great character actor who is moving up the ranks from “that guy” status? Every year is full of a who’s who of…
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This year’s Best Actor race is an interesting one. Four of the actors nominated in the category this year have been nominated for Oscars in previous years, including one of them winning once. The fifth nominee, and arguably the front runner at this point, is a rising star. However, I would argue that there are only two good performances in this category this year. I’m not going to say which two, but in my eyes,…
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The Best Supporting Actress category is always a great category. Every year we get a great mix of veterans, past winners, and newbies and this year is no different. The eclectic group of actresses includes two past winners, two newcomers, one of which I had never heard of before, and one of the most overdue actresses in the business. Here are my picks for the best performances from this year’s Best Supporting Actress nominees. …
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I’ll be straight up with it: this year’s Best Picture nominees are not great. In fact, this is arguably the worst Best Picture line-up of the decade and one of the very worst of the century (the only year I could think that is worse than this one is 2009, the year Slumdog Millionaire took the world by storm and the final year for only five Best Picture nominees). But, these are the nominees that we…
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Alita: Battle Angel is a movie that chooses style over substance, which isn’t always a bad thing. I don’t mind a good piece of mindless entertainment. I love the Fast and Furious franchise, I love a good amount of Michael Bay films, and the Marvel movies don’t exactly get the mental-wheels turning, but they’re awesome. Why do I love these films so much? They’re fun! They are a blast of entertainment, filled with glorious…
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Over the last two weeks, I had been attending the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Throughout the festival, you are constantly hearing about movies that played at the festival. You hear about potential award winners, surprise sleepers, and complete disasters. You also ignore all movies that are released in regular theaters during the festival because they’re either last year roll-over films that we’d already seen or the January garbage that generally comes out….
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