It’s been a dark start to 2025, particularly here in Los Angeles. As I search for moments of levity, writing and art continue to be an escape. I’m taking the respite here to ponder the fate of a silly awards show, because it’s become an annual routine at the beginning of each year. So away … More Reel Talk: Oscar Predictions 2025
Happy Oscars-Eve! At its core, I believe the Oscars should serve as a metric that both reflects and suggests. Nominations ought to represent both the tastes of modern audiences, the stories that everyone is talking about, while also shining a light on smaller, critically acclaimed fare and international films that an (American) audience wouldn’t otherwise … More Reel Talk: 2024 Oscar Winners Predictions
It’s been an excellent year for film, which makes for an exciting landscape of awards contenders heading into the Oscars race. Certain films have dominated the conversation for months, fueled by festival buzz, critical acclaim, blockbuster prowess, or old fashioned word-of-mouth. Perhaps more so than in recent years, though, it feels like the films in … More Reel Talk: Oscar Predictions 2024
2023 will be remembered as one of the most significant recent years in film — certainly of the 2020s, and likely of the 21st century. It marks a year of returning master auteurs and unexpected blockbusters, in turn heralding a true return to theaters after the tumult of the pandemic. It marks a recognition of … More The Year in Review: Top 10 Films of 2023
This year’s Oscars race continues to see late surprises the closer we get to the official nominations. Between the various guilds recognitions, the return of the Golden Globes telecast, and an ever-widening diversity of films in contention has kept the race interesting and hard to predict in a few key areas. Based on the current … More Reel Talk: Oscar Predictions 2023
Coming off the heels of 2020, I didn’t know what to make of the current landscape of filmmaking or filmgoing. Though uncertainty still remains regarding what stories get told on the big screen and how the theater experience might change with streaming digging a deeper foothold, one important change between 2020 and 2021 is that … More The Year in Review: Top 10 Films of 2021
It’s been a long gap between Academy Awards shows, but now that the ceremony has finally arrived, I am left with my annual, self-assigned task of predicting every category correctly. We are down to 23 major categories this year (with Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing having been combined into one Sound category), and … More Reel Talk: 2021 Oscar Winners Predictions
The Academy Awards nominations announcement comes to us much later in the year than it normally does, pushed back to reflect the release date delays which plagued so many would-be contenders. This year’s awards season understandably looks much different now than it did at the beginning of 2020, but there are still plenty of wonderful … More Reel Talk: 2021 Oscar Predictions
Note: This will be a full-spoilers discussion of Do the Right Thing. $1 will be donated to Color of Change for each view this post gets up to $100. Spike Lee’s third feature-film Do the Right Thing premiered in the summer of 1989. Inspired by the murder of Michael Griffith and the 1986 Howard Beach Incident, this … More What ‘Do the Right Thing’ Can Still Teach Us
Nominations for the 2020 Academy Awards are set to be announced early tomorrow morning. 2019 was a great year for films, but it was an especially strong year for the creatives in front of and behind the camera, making it a fun challenge to home in on which films and individuals will earn the nomination. … More Reel Talk: 2020 Oscar Predictions
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