Each week this column will highlight one winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture, progressing chronologically until all winners have been discussed. There will be a brief discussion of the film itself followed by a mention of what we wish won from the nominees in the given year (though in many cases there were…
The 1960s was when everything shifted. The most chaotic era for Hollywood since the rise of talkies, the film industry was unrecognizable by the end of the decade. It was the end of the studio system, which had been slowly suffocating for years after the United States v. Paramount case in 1948 that broke the…
Kern: Cannes would have begun this week, were it not cancelled due to COVID-19, so I thought this week we’d discuss Cannes and film festivals in general. I want to get into our personal experiences with festivals and when we started first following festival coverage, but I figured there’s no better way to start than…
Kern: I know you’ve been watching a lot of Studio Ghibli films recently. Have you seen them all at this point? Henry: Not all of them, no, but most. I’ve seen all of Miyazaki’s feature films, Ghibli or otherwise, but as for the rest, I got a collection with 17 of them so I watched…
Streaming services have been great lately for satisfying my appetite for cinema in these times. I’ve been visiting a lot of classic films from great filmmakers and hidden gems that I never would have discovered without this much time on my hands. Cue my surprise when I saw this new release from Netflix, a Spanish…
Every member of the film industry lost their minds tonight out of sheer joy when the impossible happened: Parasite won Best Picture. Granted, there were concerns that the film would lose due to being a foreign language film from South Korea with no actors recognizable in Hollywood and a lack of precursors like the DGA…
Our staff members all came up with their lists of predictions for this years Academy Awards. Below, you’ll find a composite of all of the predictions that lists the most common picks for each category. Read on and see if we can convince you to make any last minute changes to your own predictions! Best…
I started off the year reeling from my viewing of Portrait of a Lady on Fire and thought to myself that if there’s any movie deserving of an Oscar, there it was. It was one of the most visually stunning pieces of film I’d ever seen, and the writing and casting left me completely blown…
Joker picked up the most nominations and 1917 seems to be the predicted winner (at least according to most of our staff) for this year’s Oscars, but we’ve got other films in mind for what we’d like to see take home the gold this Sunday: Best Picture: Marriage Story Though it was initially seen as…
Note: This article contains spoilers for Parasite and Us. Just as cinema in 2018 was all about race, cinema in 2019 was all about class. The divides between the uber rich and everyone else became more clear than ever as the phrase “eat the rich” became a frequent social media catchphrase. It was more than…
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