The 2019 Oscar nominations were announced this morning and, as usual, it didn’t go the way people thought. There were surprises, snubs, and a few that most predicted. Overall, the nominations are fine and almost exactly how I figured they would go, save for a few things. There were some nominations that I loved, some that I hated, and some that literally had me scratching my head. Here are those picks. …
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This Oscar season is absolutely insane. This is a wide open race and the toughest to predict in sometime (though it is reminiscent of 2015). I think the nominees are pretty set, save for a few surprises here and there, but who is going to win is a complete mystery. Maybe the nominations will tell us something, maybe they’ll make it more confusing. I’m expecting some crazy surprises, but for now, here are my 2019…
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Glass is the final chapter in the unexpected superhero trilogy from M. Night Shyamalan, following 2001’s Unbreakable and 2017’s Split. The fact that this trilogy exists is one of cinema’s great surprises, as nobody expected Split to be part of the Unbreakable universe. With Unbreakable focusing on the rise of our protagonist, David Dunn (Bruce Willis), and Split focusing on the birth of our villain, The Horde (James McAvoy), the two are now pitted against each other thanks to Mr. Glass (Samuel L. Jackson). The…
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Well, we’re finally here. The end of the 2018 movie year (I’m aware we’re almost half way through January, but you get it). This final list will officially send 2018 off into the sunset. Overall, 2018 was a really good year for movies, particularly the second half of the year. I saw 203 films in 2018, a personal record, and with seeing that many movies, I was able to see more foreign films, documentaries, and…
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Picking the best performances is a spoil of riches. Every year, I could make a list of fifty performances that I loved. Unfortunately, that’s not how the game works. For this year, like I did last year, I have broken the performances down by category, much like the Oscars. I will list the “nominees” and then pick a winner and go further in depth as to why they gave the best performance in their category. …
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This is always the toughest list to make, but also my favorite to make. Movies are comprised of many scenes and when you see as many movies as I do, that leads up to thousands of scenes I see in a year. But these scenes are the ones that stuck with me the most throughout 2018. Whether it was a scene that scared me, thrilled me, or one of just pure entertainment, these are the…
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Continuing to look at the best movies of 2018, it is now time to look at the genres. I like to see movies from all genres from all around the world and this is the opportunity to highlight the best from all genres. There are some conventional categories, like Best Animated Film and Best Foreign Film, but also categories you won’t find at the Oscars. Here are my picks. BEST ANIMATED…
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My picks for the films with the best technical aspects in 2018.
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Every year, I take a look back at all the movies that I saw over the year, as well as think about major news headlines and stories that broke during the year, and I reflect. What did we learn? What did we see? Is there a new trend brewing? What shook cinema this year? Here are the things I learned and took away from the movie year that was 2018. …
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Another year, another plethora of superhero movies. 2018 brought us nine superhero movies, which is the most that we’ve ever had in a single year. From the Black Panther juggernaut to the Spiderverse and plenty in-between, the superhero movies in 2018 were pretty good. Of the nine movies that came out, there was only one that I wasn’t a fan of, and even then I didn’t hate it. We got some of the biggest, most unique…
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