Tag: Oscars
Review: Burning
When Burning first opens, it seems like we’re in for a simple “Boy meets girl” story. But as soon as the girl calls for her…
If SAG Voters Could Talk – Film Writers Have an Screen Actors Guild Nominees Rant
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality. Open your eyes, look up to Miss Blunt…
Review: Boy Erased
It appears that 2018 is shaping up to be a big year for memoir-based films about young white men and their complicated relationships with their…
25th Screen Actors Guild Awards Nomination Predictions
The nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Awards are slowly upon us. Even though they aren’t announced until December 12th, I figured I’d give predicting…
Actober: 7 Times Michelle Pfeiffer Was Not Oscar Nominated
Michelle Pfeiffer. An actress I have admired pretty much my whole movie-loving life. In an attempt to hail further praise on her, as well as…
Actober: Jack Lemmon – 3 Oscar Worthy Performances
It’s hard not to like an actor like Jack Lemmon, there’s something about him that feels inherently decent and kind. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen…
Masterpiece: Milos Forman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest opens and closes with a tranquil setting, open land at near-dark, mountains, that stirring Jack Nitzsche score – emotively…
Cinema’s Mozart: Remembering Milos Forman
“Humour was not important just for me, humour was important for this nation for centuries, to survive.” Today the world woke to some tragic news,…
Filmotomy Podcast Episode 19: Goodbye Awards Season
On this week’s Podcast Al Robinson and Rob Motto are joined by new guest Robert Daniels of 812 Film Reviews. The trio sum up some…
WHY SO SERIOUS? – Heath Ledger, Chris Nolan, & the Villain of the Century
Heath Ledger is the only Nolan lead actor to reap critical acclaim and top it all off with an Oscar – posthumously. No glad-handing parties, talk show campaigning, no bullshit falderal that puffs from these proceedings like a bad case of gas. It was his performance, pure and simple, that overcame, for one brief moment, AMPAS’ distaste for both the genre and actors his age.
Survival of the Finest: Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk
Shortly before I embarked on my first screening of Christopher Nolanʼs latest motion picture Dunkirk back in July of 2017, I filled my face with a…
Filmotomy Podcast Episode 14 – Talking Oscar Nominations And Christopher Nolan
Robin Write, Al Robinson, Joel Melendez and Bianca Garner get together for another podcast to react to last week’s Oscar nominations announcement. And as Christopher…
Filmotomy Podcast Episode 13: Producers Guild, Predicting Gold
Robin and Al are joined by not only Joel Melendez and Matt St.Clair, but brand new to the podcast is Bianca “Bee” Garner. The team…
25 Years Of DGA And This Year's Oscar Race
Since 1993, do you know off the top of your head which director has been nominated with the Directors Guild of America the most times?…
