2015 has come to a close and it has been a very good year for movies. It’s very hard compiling my Best of the Year lists because of how many good movies and performances we got this year. But before I release those, here are my five biggest takeaways from the movies of 2015. 5 – Steven Spielberg is a Victim of His Own Greatness Steven Spielberg made the best movie that nobody is talking…
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With Top 10’s and Best of the Year lists starting to come out, the Oscar picture is getting a little clearer. It is still extremely foggy with no real frontrunner as of now, but we can start to narrow down some movies. The only movie we are waiting for is “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”, which could change the game. You can watch all the trailers by clicking on the titles of films. BEST…
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Oscar season is in full swing and this looks like the most wide open race in years. There is no real frontrunner as of now, though some films have staked their claim as heavy favorites for nominations. Here are my most recent predictions for this year’s Academy Awards. You can watch all the trailers by clicking on the titles of films. BEST PICTURE: Spotlight played like gangbusters on the festival circuit and has…
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The fall festival circuit kicked off this last weekend with Venice and Telluride, which means only one thing: Oscar season. Every year, studios release films that they think are going to win the big prize and only one of those films can win come February. Through out these next four months, we will see some of the very best movies of the year. We will get the contenders, the pretenders, and a few surprises along…
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The Summer 2015 movie season has come to a close. It was a solid summer for movies, though the blockbusters disappointed a bit. But, some of the best movies of 2015 were released this summer and we were given some great performances. So with that, let’s look back at some of the best movies and performances of summer 2015. TOP 5 MOVIES 5- Inside Out – Welcome back Pixar! After a few mediocre films,…
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Showing Up is a quiet slice of life from the great Kelly Reichardt. Reichardt’s latest takes us into the world of the Portland art scene where we look at an artist’s preparation for her latest show and the stresses that she deals with in the week leading up to it. It’s a delicate, amusing, and surprisingly stressful film about the creative process and being an artist. Michelle Williams, working with Reichardt for the fourth…
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There is no denying David O. Russell’s success in the 2010s. Throughout that decade, Russell made four films, The Fighter in 2010, Silver Linings Playbook in 2012, American Hustle in 2013, and Joy in 2015. Each of these films grossed over $100 million at the worldwide box office and garnered tons of awards attention. All four films combined earned 26 Oscar nominations, three of them for Best Picture, five of them for Russell’s directing…
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It’s the Halloween season, and with that comes Halloween movies. Though many love to watch horror movies during this time of year, there are plenty of subgenres of horror to choose from. Looking for a haunted house movie? A monster movie? Maybe something with a vampire or zombie? That’s what this list is here to help with. I have listed several horror subgenres as well as added categories like classics and kid-friendly films and listed…
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I wouldn’t usually rank the movies of a production company. Thinking about ranking the movies from the likes of Paramount or Universal or Disney just seems like a daunting task because of how long they have been around and how many movies they have in their catalog. But the production studio A24 has been around for only a decade and within that decade, they have established themselves as one of the most singular and best…
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Scream, the fifth installment in the Scream franchise that probably should have been titled something like 5cream or simply Scream 5 or Scream V, is a testament to Scream as a franchise. Since the first film debuted in 1996, the Scream franchise has stuck to its roots in terms of what it is: murderous whodunits filled with meta-humor about the state of horror films. Whenever a new Scream film comes out, regardless of…
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