Hey everyone, it’s Ryan. So, the Oscars are approaching (March 7 on ABC), and I’ve opted to make predictions for all the major categories. So without further ado, here’s my picks. (PS: I intentionally misspelled “The Blind Side”.)
Best Picture:
Will Win: The Hurt Locker
Should Win: Inglourious Basterds
Could Win: Inglourious Basterds
Best Director:
Will Win: Kathryn Bigelow, “The Hurt [...]
To avoid a big, long, pretentious speech about what the year 2009 meant for film, here’s my favorites of the year.
First up, several honorable mentions. “Adventureland”, “Anvil! The Story of Anvil”, “Brothers”, “Bruno”, “500 Days of Summer”, “Food, Inc.”, “The Hangover”, “Julie and Julia“, “The Messenger”, “Moon”, “Paranormal Activity”, the directors cut of “Watchmen”, “Zombieland”, [...]
Hey. Soon this site will be flooded with lists of mine, including my picks for best of ‘09, worst of ‘09, the worst of the decade, and ultimately the best. But first, I’ll put out the films I want to see most this year.
10: The Social Network. One of my favorite directors, David Fincher (Fight [...]
It’s no secret I was less than pleased with this year’s nominees. Mild bitterness aside, allow me to give my predictions for the Academy Awards. (I was 7 for 8 in the big categories last year!)
Best Picture:
Oughta Win: Milk
Will Win: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Director:
Oughta Win: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Will Win: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Actor:
Oughta Win: [...]
I have stayed silent for too long. Two months ago, I wrote a review on a film entitled Frost/Nixon. I dismissed it as entertainment, a film that wouldn’t touch an Oscar. I said the film was nothing special, that it would be forgotten soon…
Two months, $10 million, and 5 Academy Award nominations later, apparently I [...]
Best Picture: The Wrestler
Runner-Ups: Slumdog Millionaire, The Reader, The Dark Knight, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Worst Picture: The Love Guru
Runners-Up: Camp Rock, The Happening, First Sunday, Seven Pounds
Best Director: Danny Boyle & Loveleen Tandan, Slumdog Millionaire,
Runner-Ups: David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Darren Aronofsky, The Wrestler Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight, [...]
2008 has been a fantastic year in film. It was the year that Mickey Rourke, Robert Downey Jr, and Tom Cruise all made comebacks. It was the year that for every major disappointment (Australia, Frost/Nixon), there was a giant surprise (Slumdog Millionaire, The Wrestler). It was the year that the line between big awards contenders [...]
Although my reviews are mostly positive (what can I say, I like movies!), there are always movies every year that are awful. Or bad. Or face-meltingly, heartbreakingly bad. For example, even though I gave Speed Racer an F, I saw it a second time and deemed it a ’so-awful-it’s-good’ classic.
5 While Vince Vaughn and Reese [...]
2008 is probably the best summer in film ever. It’s had the awesomeness of Iron Man and The Dark Knight, the hilarity of Tropic Thunder, the animated classics Kung Fu Panda and Wall-E, and the disappointment of Narnia and the Love Guru.
And the sheer awfulness of Camp Rock.
Anyway, I will hand out the First Annual [...]