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The Toronto International Film Festival boosts “Green Book” with its Top Prize
Over the weekend, the Toronto International Film Festival announced their award winners for 2018. Notably, they gave out the Audience Award, which is the top prize you can get at TIFF. It went to Peter Farrelly’s Green Book, in a bit of an upset. The runner ups were, perhaps surprisingly,[...]
Updated Academy Award predictions for early September
Things are getting interesting. Movies are playing at prestigious film festivals, contenders are being solidified as Oscar hopefuls, and the season is in full swing now. Frankly, you can even make the claim that there’s a solid top five contenders for Best Picture right now. The smart money is on[...]
“White Boy Rick” is a compelling character study and period piece
True crime stories usually like to focus on the rise and fall of someone we know in our hearts is due justice. We may like him or her, but there’s never a doubt that prison is deserved. With the new film White Boy Rick, opening in theaters this weekend, things[...]
Taking a look at potential Best Supporting Actress contenders
As you all very fine ladies and gentlemen must all must know by now (since I’ve pretty much hammered it into your collective heads at this point), it’s one thing to read early Academy Award predictions in order to see what folks like myself think will happen this winter, but[...]
Shane Black gives “The Predator” his signature clever spin
Aside from the original, the Predator franchise has never fully found its stride. Different takes on the material have bred mixed results, but never a full on success. Now, that changes with The Predator, which finally figured out what was missing. The secret sauce? Shane Black. Opening this week, Black’s[...]
Venice Film Festival award winners include “The Favourite” and “Roma”
Over the weekend, the Venice Film Festival gave out their prizes for the 75th time in their history. This time around, the fest opted to spread the love quite a bit with their awards. At the same time, they went back to the well in a way, rewarding filmmaker Alfonso[...]
Taking a look at potential Best Supporting Actor contenders
Before this piece gets started, a quick note. As you probably heard yesterday, the Academy will not be adding their controversial new Popular Film category for the upcoming Oscar ceremony. That’s been reflected in my analysis here. Just wanted to make sure that was known. Now, on to the regularly[...]
Watch out for Ben Foster in Best Supporting Actor for “Leave No Trace”
I was going to wait until tomorrow to discuss this, but I didn’t want to make the look at the Best Supporting Actor category all about one person. That’s just not fair. So, today we consider this a Supporting Actor tease of sorts. The reason? Yesterday, Bleeker Street announced their[...]
“The Favourite” releases a new Trailer to build off of its positive festival buzz
Of all the movies to play at both the Telluride and Venice Film Festivals last week, The Favourite seems like one of biggest ones to watch out for, awards wise. With a New York Film Festival bow on the horizon, the buzz for this new Yorgos Lanthimos tale should sustain[...]
“All About Nina” and “Fahrenheit 11/9”: Films to look forward to in September
With the air filled with buzz about potential Academy Award contenders out of Telluride and Venice (as opposed to the smells of Autumn), we’ve reached the month of September. In addition potential Oscar players, what’s hitting and missing (or going to hit/miss) at the various fall film festivals, and other[...]
