By John Corrado The nominations for the 95th Academy Awards were announced this morning, with A24’s beloved Everything Everywhere All at Once – which maxed out with a total of eleven nominations – leading the charge. The Best Picture lineup is rounded out by All Quiet on the Western Front, Avatar: The Way of Water,… Read More Nominations for the 95th Academy Awards
By John Corrado Another year has come and gone. We are now a week into 2023, which means it’s high time for my countdown of the best movies of 2022. It took a little while to put this list together, with me watching (and rewatching) as many films as possible to get the order right.… Read More The Best Movies of 2022
By John Corrado Blonde is director Andrew Dominik’s adaptation of the 2000 novel of the same name by Joyce Carol Oates, which presented a somewhat fictionalized account of Marilyn Monroe’s life, and it’s a film that has invoked strong reactions in viewers (and that’s putting it mildly). I watched Blonde a week ago on Netflix… Read More Some Thoughts on Andrew Dominik’s Blonde…
By John Corrado What the hell was that? That is honestly my only reaction to the 94th Academy Awards. Not because of the winners themselves, which for the most part were safe and predictable, with Jane Campion taking home Best Director (deservedly so) for The Power of the Dog, and CODA prevailing in the Best… Read More Winners of the 94th Academy Awards
By John Corrado The 94th Academy Awards are this weekend, which means it’s time for my annual predictions in all 23 categories. I’m not super confident in some of these, least of which the suddenly very competitive Best Picture race between CODA and The Power of the Dog, so we’ll see how I do tomorrow… Read More My 2022 Oscar Predictions
By John Corrado This is the day we’ve all been waiting for. The 94th Oscar nominations have just been announced, and for the first time since 2011 we have gotten a full slate of ten Best Picture nominees, with a lineup that includes Belfast, CODA, Don’t Look Up, Drive My Car, Dune, King Richard, Licorice… Read More Nominations for the 94th Academy Awards
By John Corrado Last weekend, I published my list of the best movies of 2021. Now it’s time for my rundown of the best non-fiction films of last year. I spent the last week catching up on ones that I missed (including the one that became my number one pick, which I missed during its… Read More The Best Documentaries of 2021
By John Corrado I’m going to keep the preamble to this list short. As we all know, 2021 wasn’t exactly a great year, with the COVID-19 pandemic still with us and a return to “normal” (whatever the heck that word even means anymore) seeming like a goal that keeps getting pushed further down the road… Read More The Best Movies of 2021
By John Corrado This is it, folks. After the longest awards season ever, the 2021 Oscars are happening tonight. I’ve spent the last week catching up with movies, and have seen 40 out of the 41 nominated features, as well as a couple of the shorts. Here are my predictions for what will win in… Read More My 2021 Oscar Predictions
By John Corrado The nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards were announced this morning, with eight films (The Father, Judas And The Black Messiah, Mank, Minari, Nomadland, Promising Young Woman, Sound of Metal and The Trial Of The Chicago 7) ultimately getting into the Best Picture lineup. David Fincher’s Mank leads the day with a total… Read More Nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards
By John Corrado A month ago, I shared my picks for the best movies of 2020, and now it’s time to make my selections for the best documentaries of last year. This list has been a long time coming, I know, and It took me a while to put it together, from deciding on the… Read More The Best Documentaries of 2020
By John Corrado How do you even begin to summarize 2020, a year that is ending today but probably won’t be fondly remembered by pretty much anyone? It was, as we all know, a year that began with news of a novel Coronavirus emerging in Wuhan, China, which would quickly spread around the world to… Read More The Best Movies of 2020
By John Corrado Please note that this article contains major spoilers for the film The Last Temptation of Christ. It’s Good Friday, a day designated by Christians to recognize Jesus Christ’s sacrificial death on the cross, and a day that is meant to serve as a time of quiet reflection before the more jubilant celebration… Read More The Rebel Jesus: Reflecting on Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ
By John Corrado There you have it folks, the 92nd Academy Awards have come to a close, with Bong Joon-ho’s South Korean film Parasite becoming the first international film in history to take home Best Picture. Yes, I predicted it would happen, as you can see below, but I don’t know if I really believed… Read More My 2020 Oscar Predictions (Now Updated With Winners)
By John Corrado With 2019 officially in the rearview mirror, and 2020 already a few days in, it’s time for my countdown of the best movies of last year. It was a year that saw the release of some great movies, and also closed out a decade of moviegoing that saw the release of some… Read More The Best Movies of 2019
By John Corrado The calendars have already turned over to 2020, but 2019 would not be complete without my annual countdowns of the best movies and documentaries of the previous year. Per tradition, I have once again broken up these lists, because I want to pay tribute to as many of these films as possible.… Read More The Best Documentaries of 2019
By John Corrado So that’s a wrap on the 91st Academy Awards. I ended up predicting 17 of the 24 categories correctly, which isn’t as much as I had hoped, but is still one better than I got last year. The night ultimately ended with Green Book winning Best Picture over my prediction and preference Roma,… Read More My 2019 Oscar Predictions (Now Updated With Winners)
By John Corrado Another year has come and gone. While 2018 officially ended nearly two weeks ago now, I wouldn’t be able to officially say goodbye to the year without first counting down my picks for the best films that were released within that timeframe. My list of the best documentaries of 2018 already dropped yesterday,… Read More The Best Movies of 2018
By John Corrado We have already officially closed the door on 2018, but before we entirely leave the year in the past, I would be remiss not to highlight the many wonderful films that I saw last year. My list of the best movies of 2018 will be dropping shortly, but first I would like… Read More The Best Documentaries of 2018
By John Corrado Update: Well, I got 16 out of 24 correct. Not as good as I had hoped, but not too shabby, either. I’m happy with a lot of the winners, even if the show itself was wildly overlong and pretty average. It’s awesome that The Shape of Water took home Best Picture, and… Read More My 2018 Oscar Predictions (Now Updated With Winners!)
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