Something magical occurred at the 92nd Academy Awards Sunday evening. Something that I predicted was going to happen weeks ago. Parasite not only took home four awards - the most of any feature honored at the ceremony. It became the first non-English language film to win the Academy Award for both International Feature Film and [...]
Welcome to the final installment of this season’s Best Picture Challenge. Check out my thoughts on films seven through nine below. Ford v. Ferrari With Le Mans 1966 as the backdrop, officials at Ford look to do the impossible. They plan to construct a race car that can compete against a thoroughbred of car racing: [...]
Welcome to part deux of my Best Picture Challenge in conjunction with the 92nd Oscars. In this post, I’m talking about The Irishman, Jojo Rabbit, and Joker. // The Irishman I was stunned to discover this film had a three-and-a-half hour runtime. Good Lord! If you can get over that - and how the film [...]
The 2020 Oscars ceremony is February 9. It’s a shortened season, but I’m determined to see and review each of the nine Best Picture nominees. In the spirit of a shortened season, I’ve decided to conquer the writing portion of this challenge in three parts, publishing snippet reviews of each of the nine nominees. Let’s [...]
An epic film based on an equally epic novel, time to dive into The Goldfinch. Director John Crowley's film, based on Donna Tartt's Pullitzer Prize winning novel, follows Theo Decker (Oakes Fegley and Ansel Elgort) who is taken in by an upper-class family after his mother is tragically killed in a terrorist attack at the [...]
If there's anything I love, it's a film with a good story. While not perfect, The Art of Racing in the Rain provided just that for me. Simon Curtis' film takes us through the life of a golden retriever, Enzo (voiced by Kevin Costner), and his owner Denny Swift (Milo Ventimiglia), a race car driver [...]
The Lion King started out as a project with many unknowns, but would soon become one of the most beloved Disney films of all time. Now, 25 years after its release, the iconic story gets the remake treatment. Do I really need to bore you with a plot summary? I mean, if you have not [...]
