Best Performances from the 2018 Oscar Best Actress Nominees

Best Actress has been incredibly strong the last few years and this year is no different.  What’s great about the actresses this year is that they have all been putting sensational work for decades and now, for some of them, they are finally getting their due.  Here are my choices for the best performances from this year’s Best Actress Oscar nominees.         SALLY HAWKINS (Nominated for The Shape of Water) BEST PERFORMANCE – THE SHAPE…

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Best of 2017 – Best Scenes of 2017

For this list, I’m looking back at the best individual scenes from 2017.  There were thousands to chose from, but these are the scenes that left the biggest impression on me.  Whether it was a scene of masterful acting, exciting action, or a simple conversation, these were the best scenes of 2017. Some of these choices will have clips attached to them so you can see the excellence for yourself. WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD!!!! There, you’ve…

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Best of 2017 – Best of the Genres

Continuing to look at the best and worst movies of 2017, here are my picks for the best movies from each genre.           BEST ANIMATED FILM – COCO Runner Up – Mutafukaz In a relatively weak year for animation, Pixar reigns supreme with it’s heart-tugging, musical gem.     BEST FOREIGN FILM – THE MERCILESS Runner Up – The Square The Merciless is a slick, fun, twisty, Departed-esque gangster flick that is wildly entertaining…

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Best of 2017 – Ranking the Comic Book Movies of 2017

The 2017 movie year is officially over, so now begins the lists.  Over the next week or so, I will be counting down the best and worst movies and performances of 2017 over a number of lists. I am going to kick it off by talking about the comic book movies of 2017.  As usual, there were a number of comic book movies that were released this year and, as usual, we had our good,…

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Best Movies of Summer 2017

The 2017 summer movie season is officially over!  This was a great summer movies.  I saw 41 movies over the last four months (49 total if you include the movies that were released this summer that  I saw earlier this year at Sundance), and most of them were good.  Some of them have made their way into my ten best movies of the year, others have made it on the bottom ten.  This list is…

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Best Movies of 2017 – So Far

June is officially over, which means we are halfway through the 2017 cinematic year.  I have seen 93 movies so far this year, just short of my goal of 100 for the first half (my goal is 200 for the whole year).  I’ve seen some great films, and some not so great films, but overall, 2017 is shaping out to be a great year for movies.  Here are my picks for the best movies of 2017…

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Best Movies Every Year Since I’ve Been Alive

There has been a thread going around the internet of people naming the best movies of each year they have been alive.  So I decided to give it a whirl and give my picks.  I am going to name my favorite movies every year since 1988 and I will include my current favorite movie of 2017, though that is subject to change as the year goes on.  And, at the very end, I am going…

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Oscar 2017: Best Performances – Best Actor

Taking a look at the acting categories from this year’s Academy Awards, here are my picks for the best performances from this year’s Best Actor nominees.       CASEY AFFLECK  BEST PERFORMANCE – MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (Kenneth Lonergan, 2016) I love Casey Affleck more than most people.  After a spectacular 2007, starring in films like Gone Baby Gone and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (which was almost my pick here), he was a…

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Oscar 2017: Best Performances – Best Actress

Continuing to look at the best performances from this year’s Oscar nominated actors, here are my picks for the best performances from this year’s Best Actress nominees.     ISABELLE HUPPERT (Nominated for Elle) BEST PERFORMANCE – ELLE (Paul Verhoeven, 2016) Look, I understand Isabelle Huppert is an international icon with over 100 films to her name as an actress.  But, before Elle, I had only seen her in I Heart Huckabees (2004) and briefly in Amour (2012), which has since forced…

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Oscar 2017: Best Performances – Best Supporting Actor

Continuing to look at 2017’s nominated actors, I am now going to list my favorite performances from this year’s Best Supporting Actor category.  We’ve got three fresh faces in this group, a Hollywood legend, and one of the finest and most unique actors in the game today.  Check out my picks for the best performances from this year’s Best Supporting Actor nominees.       MAHERSHALA ALI (Nominated for Moonlight) BEST PERFORMANCE – MOONLIGHT (Barry Jenkins, 2016) Mahershala…

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