There is a concept that circulates every award season and is pervasive in every conversation about the performance categories. It's called a "Legacy Oscar." Essentially, a "Legacy Oscar" is about rewarding a...
It seemed for a while there (pre-pandemic) that superhero films were building to something. It seemed a sort of legitimacy was developing within critic's groups and awards circuits as the genre ballooned...
I've discovered that rather than trying to categorize the five nominated films in Best Original Screenplay into archetypes like you would with Best Picture— the Indie Darling, the Blockbuster, the Genre Defier,...
Pundits handicap Oscar nominations on a spectrum between activism and dispassionate observation. Even those who typically lean toward the latter pole will occasionally (when wading through the uncertainties of a category’s bottom...
Power is almost always equated with violence: all of those old-school movie heroes, from John Wayne to Arnold Schwarzenegger, were males who proved their worth on screen through killing, mutilating, beating the...
Director: Johan GrimonprezWriters: Johan Grimonprez, Daan MiliusStars: Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Miles Davis
Synopsis: Jazz and decolonization are entwined in this historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey...
Now that The Brutalist is at last garnering awards buzz for Guy Pearce, it's important to look back at all his previous performances that deserved due acclaim. Here's a chronological wish list...
Picking the winner for Best Animated Feature might not be too tricky, as there are usually one or two films ahead of the pack regarding this award, but predicting the films that...
