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Chasing the Gold: Best Original Song Nominees Analysis (2021 Oscars)

Best Original Song is one of the most competitive categories at this year’s Academy Awards. Though there are a few that appear to have a better shot than others, this feels like...

Poll: What is the best martial arts film?

From wuxia, to kung fu, to karate, to even action-comedies and samurai films, the martial arts have given us some of the best action movies ever made, and they've been kicking butt...

Criterion Crunch Time: ‘The Postman Always Rings Twice’ (1946)

Another one of the many great things about watching movies on The Criterion Channel is the window into Old Hollywood. Movies are, of course, great in any era. If you didn’t agree,...

A Fuller Life: Hollywood’s Great Carpetbagger

Samuel Fuller was born to be outside the studio system. His films, the low-budget B-pictures that studios added to their inexpensive productions for a cheap buck, have turned out to be some of...

Op-Ed: AFI’s 100 Years…100 Passions – ‘Roman Holiday’ (#4)

I will be watching and reviewing all of the films included on AFI’s 100 Years…100 Passions list. The list contains the 100 greatest love stories in American cinema and I plan to...

Chasing The Gold: How Was THAT Nominated For Best Picture? (2012)

At the 85th Academy Award nominees for Best Picture, Argo won Best Picture, despite not receiving a Best DIrector nomination for Ben Affleck.  There were some interesting films this year; The LIfe...

Poll: What is your favorite 2021 Oscar nominee for Best Picture?

It's hard to believe that we would end up having two history-making Academy Awards ceremonies in a row; the first being Parasite winning Best Picture, and now we get to experience a...

Op-ed: Jean Renoir – The Colored Years

After producing his magnum opus, The Rules Of The Game, Jean Renoir, and his later wife, Dido Freire, fled from France to Hollywood to escape the Nazis. While he became a naturalized American citizen, Renoir...

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