Weekend Roundtable: 2018 Oscar Snubs
Oscar season finally ends this Sunday. As the Hollywood elite declare which movies they think were the best of 2017, let’s look at a few the Oscars ignored this year.
Oscar season finally ends this Sunday. As the Hollywood elite declare which movies they think were the best of 2017, let’s look at a few the Oscars ignored this year.
Not everyone can take a tragic political bloodbath out of history and transform it into one of the finest (and funniest) comedies of the year. Not everyone is Armando Iannucci. Beloved by some (mostly British) and tragically lacki...
The trickiest movies to review are the ones that just miss the mark. Raving about something brilliant or heavily poo-pooing a piece of garbage are easy enough. Finding the words to describe that awkward place between effective and...
‘Boost’ is a movie that you’ve seen many times before. Two young friends get caught up in criminality, one with a future who reluctantly joins a life of crime and one who doesn’t and pushes the pair down a ...
If there’s one old film franchise that seems completely impossible to foist onto audiences in 2018, it’s ‘Death Wish’. We’re in the height of the #MeToo movement and in the midst of another massive gu...
What should have been a great weekend is wasted with two schizophrenic genre movies. Both of them have enough potential that they could have been amazing if only they’d been placed in the hands of filmmakers with a clear vis...
The big problem with the soon-to-be-forgotten ‘Red Sparrow’ is that it can never quite decide what movie it wants to be. Is this the blockbustery spy romp and Black Widow knockoff like the trailers suggest? Or is it a ...
Long underrated (even if her pithy, experimental, and openly political movies are hardly conceived as crowd-pleasers), writer/director Sally Potter deserves a resurgence. ‘The Party’ may not be her best work, but it sh...
Our final Oscar poll this year of course looks at the top prize. Which movie do you expect to win Best Picture on Sunday?
In years past, the Academy closely tied the Best Director Oscar to the Best Picture winner, but that’s not always the case anymore. What’s your prediction for this category?
While we’re predicting this year’s Oscars, let’s move on to the Best Actress category. Which of the nominees do you believe will take the trophy? Which one actually deserves it?
The year’s Oscar race is fast approaching its finish line. Before we watch the ceremony on Sunday, let’s make some predictions. Who do you think will win Best Actor this year? More importantly, who actually deserves to...