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
Before diving into the particulars of Coming 2 America, it is important to look back on the release of its predecessor, 1988’s Coming to America, a progressive film for its time in its depiction of an all-Black cast, driven by the comedic genius that is Eddie Murphy. In the early 1980s, Murphy began to hit … More Film Review: ‘Coming 2 America’ can’t match the comedic heights of the original, but it’s still a world worth revisiting
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
Welcome to the ’20s! A new year and a new decade means new movies coming right around the corner. Here are are my 15 most anticipated movies of 2020: Birds of Prey (February 7) Throughout the 2010s, DC comic book adaptations have been inconsistent, but even in at their lowest point with 2016’s Suicide Squad, … More The Year Ahead: 15 Most Anticipated Films of 2020
It’s the beginning of a new year and a new decade, which means it’s time for one last look at some of my favorite films from 2019. Admittedly, 2019 was a slow start for the movies, but in the second half of the year, we were given a slew of excellent outings from equally wonderful … More The Year in Review: Top 10 Films of 2019
When JJ Abrams signed on to direct Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens in early 2013, he went in with the intention to craft his signature “mystery box” film and ride off into the Tatooine binary sunset, content with the notion that other creatives would take the time to unravel the story from … More Film Review: ‘Star Wars – The Rise of Skywalker’ misses the mark with a frustrating concluding chapter
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