Monday, June 9, 2025

Awards

Chasing the Gold: Final Oscar Predictions (Animated Feature)

Last summer, following the release of The Wild Robot, the Best Animated Feature category seemed locked up, but it quickly became a three-horse race between a Wild Robot, Wallace & Gromit,...

Chasing the Gold: Final Oscar Predictions (Original Screenplay)

It's hard to imagine a better year for original films. Because of the writer's and actor's strikes in 2023, many tentpoles, blockbusters, and IP extravaganzas had to be put on hold. This...

Chasing the Gold: Jacob Throneberry’s Personal Animated Feature Rankings

Oscar nominations are here, and now we wait until the March 2nd ceremony to see who will take home the awards. For Best Animated Feature, the race has come down to Flow,...

Movie Review (Berlinale 2025): ‘Hot Milk’ is An Underwhelming Portrayal of Love’s Fractures

Director: Rebeca Lenkiewicz Writer: Deborah LevyStars: Emma Mackey, Vicky Krieps, Fiona Shaw Synopsis: With a strange illness, a mother and her daughter embark on a journey to the Spanish coast to find a...

Sundance Capsule Reviews: ‘Love, Brooklyn,’ ‘Plainclothes,’ & ‘Ricky’

The “actor’s showcase” – much like the “oh, the places you’ll go” dramatic framework that I wrote about in this series’ first volume – is nothing new to the Sundance Film Festival,...

Movie Review (Sundance 2025): ‘Sorry, Baby’ Means Well and Little Else

Director: Eva VictorWriter: Eva VictorStars: Eva Victor, Naomi Ackie, Louis Cancelmi Synopsis: Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on - for everyone around her, at least. Sorry, Baby is told in four chapters...

Berlinale 2025: What To Watch For

After Sundance comes our second big film festival of the year, the Berlin International Film Festival, aka Berlinale. Jury head Todd Haynes (May December) and his fellow judges will be watching an...

Sundance Capsule Reviews: ‘Bubble & Squeak,’ ‘LUZ,’ and ‘Sukkwan Island’ 

At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, one could count at least 25 films that involved characters navigating unfamiliar environments, from two British teenager’s misguided trip to Syria in search of independence (Brides)...

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