Continuing my list of the most anticipated movies of 2016, here are my top 10 movies. A lot of intriguing titles from a lot of great filmmakers and a nice mix of big blockbusters and awards contenders. Definitely keep your eye out for these titles. And if you missed numbers 20 – 11, check them out right here. 10 – The Girl on the Train (Tate Taylor, October 7) Based on the best selling…
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Now that the Oscars are over, the 2015 movie year is officially over. With that being said, it is time to look at the movies coming out in 2016. A lot of intriguing titles coming out this year by some great filmmakers. So many, in fact, I left titles like Suicide Squad, Jason Bourne, Assassin’s Creed, and The Jungle Book off my Top 20. Not that I’m not excited for these films, it’s just that…
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Sean Baker’s Anora is the most recent Best Picture winner at the Academy Awards! Anora dominated the evening, winning five Oscars including Best Director, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Editing, along with Best Picture. Sean Baker became the first director since Walt Disney in 1953 to win four total awards for the evening, as Baker acted as the film’s director, writer, producer, and editor. It was an overall solid telecast with great speeches and…
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The final entry of the “Best of the 2016 Oscar Nominees” series concludes with the best performances from this year’s Best Actor nominees. Let’s have a look. BRYAN CRANSTON (Nominated for Trumbo) BEST PERFORMANCE – TRUMBO (2015) Cranston is a television icon for his performance as Walter White in Breaking Bad. However, this isn’t a list for television, it’s for movies, so that didn’t qualify. Cranston has had some good supporting performances in some really…
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Oh the Razzies. This is probably my favorite award show ever. Every year, the Golden Raspberry Awards honor the worst of the worst in film. Legendary films like Howard the Duke (1986), Showgirls (1995), Freddy Got Fingered (2001), and Jack & Jill (2011) have all won the coveted Razzie for Worst Movie of the Year. So let’s take a look at this year’s nominations and I will take a guess as to who is going…
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2015 was a great year for actresses, and the nominees are a great mixture of newcomers and veterans. Let’s have a look at the best performances from this year’s Best Actress Oscar nominees. CATE BLANCHETT (Nominated for Carol) BEST PERFORMANCE – I’M NOT THERE (2007) It could be argued that Cate Blanchett is the best actress working today. Every performance she does is great. No role is a stretch for Ms. Blanchett, making her…
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Triple 9 is as dirty as dirty cop films get. This gritty, edge of your seat thriller features some great action scenes and as talented of a cast as there will be in 2016. However, the lack of character depth really hurts the emotional punch the movie was trying to go for, resulting in an overall empty movie-going experience. Triple 9 (the police code for “officer down”) follows a group of criminals (Chewitel Ejiofor, Aaron Paul, and…
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Continuing a look at the best performances and movies from this year’s Oscar nominees, here are the best performances from this year’s Best Supporting Actor nominees. CHRISTIAN BALE (Nominated for The Big Short) BEST PERFORMANCE – THE FIGHTER (2010) Christian Bale is one of the best actors working today. His chameleon-like style to lose himself in every role, both physically and emotionally, along with coming out with a movie almost every year, makes him…
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This weekend, John Hillcoat’s Triple 9 comes out. I am extremely excited for this movie, as it was one of my most anticipated movies of last year before it got pushed back. The cast is tremendous and I love gritty, corrupt cop movies. So in honor of that, here are the dirtiest of dirty cop movies. 5 – Premium Rush (David Koepp, 2012) “Premium Rush” is a criminally (pun?) underrated movie. I don’t…
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Continuing our look at the best films from this year’s Oscar nominees, here are the best performances from this year’s Best Supporting Actress nominees. JENNIFER JASON LEIGH (Nominated for The Hateful Eight) BEST PERFORMANCE – THE HATEFUL EIGHT (2015) I am not really knowledgable with Jennifer Jason Leigh’s filmography. I remember her in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), The Machinist (2004), and her spectacular voice work in 2015’s Anomalisa, among some others. But her role…
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