This year’s Oscars season has been an unusually tumultuous one. From various scandals and controversies surrounding the Best Picture frontrunners, to questions of whether there should even be an awards show at all amid the ongoing crisis from the Los Angeles fires, this has all amassed to a slate of honorees where truly anything can … More Reel Talk: 2025 Oscar Winners Predictions
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
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
Film as a medium stands at a crossroads. Over the last few years, streaming, the pandemic, video-on-demand, and the increased focus on intellectual property have affected where and when movies are viewed — all of which is reflected in the 2022 box office. It’s fitting, then, that each film on this list reckons with reflection. Change. … More The Year In Review: Top 10 Films of 2022
Another Academy Awards ceremony is upon us — and it’s not been without controversy. From last-minute presenter announcements to omissions of various categories from the main telecast, the alleged “biggest night in Hollywood” is shaping up to be a curious — if not outright contentious — affair. I voiced my grievances the last time the Oscars … More Reel Talk: 2022 Oscar Winners Predictions
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
In January of 2020, I crafted a list of my most anticipated films of the year — a list that, in retrospect, did not age well given the world’s lack of moviegoing in the months that followed. However, I did make the following comment under my entry for Dune: “Not to be dramatic or anything, … More Film Review: ‘Dune’ Depicts Thought-Provoking Sci-Fi on a Grand Scale
After an agonizing year-and-a-half-long wait, Stranger Things Season Three is finally upon us. And, if you’re like me, you finished the entire season in the first 24 hours of its release on Netflix. Let’s unpack what’s up with the Upside Down, Hawkins, Indiana and our favorite group of ‘80s kids. The story picks up in … More TV Review: ‘Stranger Things’ packs in the thrills and ’80s nostalgia for a slow-building, emotional third season
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