96th Oscars: Bradley Cooper Snubbed for Best Director – Again
Oppenheimer leads with 13 (close to our standing record of 14 since “All about Eve in 1950), “Poor Things” with 11, “Killers of the Flower Moon” with 10 and “Barbie” with 8.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Jan 23, 2024 | Awards Season, Oscar |
Oppenheimer leads with 13 (close to our standing record of 14 since “All about Eve in 1950), “Poor Things” with 11, “Killers of the Flower Moon” with 10 and “Barbie” with 8.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Dec 6, 2023 | Awards Season, Film Independent Spirit Awards (FISA) |
I am delighted to see my favorite movie of the last few months, Hlynur Pálmason’s masterpiece “Godland”, appear in the Best International Film category.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Nov 15, 2021 | Awards Season, Music & Art, Music in Film, Oscar |
From Korngold, Steiner, and Herrmann to Greenwood, Levi, and Britell, here are my 70 all-time favorite original movie scores.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Jul 14, 2023 | Awards Season, Music & Art, Music in Film, Oscar |
Irving Berlin tops the list with twenty-one songs, followed by Harry Warren with twenty and Harold Arlen and Jimmy Van Heusen with eighteen songs.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Jul 18, 2023 | Awards Season, Music & Art, Music in Film, Oscar |
Irving Berlin tops the list with 21 songs, followed by Johnny Mercer with 19, Sammy Cahn with 16, Ira Gershwin with 14, and Johnny Burke with 10.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Jun 5, 2023 | Awards Season, Cinematographers, Classic Film Noir, Oscar |
Hal Mohr** is the only person to have won a competitive Academy Award without being nominated for it. Mohr was allowed to keep his Oscar and won a second.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Oct 26, 2022 | Awards Season, Oscar |
200 Great Actors and Actresses Who Have Never Been Nominated: Marilyn Monroe, Kim Novak, Edward G. Robinson, Fred MacMurray, Mia Farrow, Ellen Barkin…
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Dec 3, 2021 | Awards Season, Critic Awards, NYFCC |
In the fifty-four years since Dyan Cannon won the first won Best Supporting Actress in NY in 1969, fourteen of their choices have failed to get a nomination.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Jul 12, 2023 | Awards Season, Emmy |
Best Limited Series, Best Actor (Steven Yeun), Best Actress (Ali Wong) and Outstanding Writing and Direction for the series creator Lee Sung Jin.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | May 6, 2023 | A-, Drama, Emmy, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Genres (Musical-Western), Historic Events, Max, Mystery, Ratings: Movies and Television, Romance, Thriller, TV / Streaming |
This is the superior version thanks to a spectacularly good Elizabeth Olsen as Montgomery, a housewife who has everything on the Baby Boom checklist.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | May 28, 2023 | Awards Season, Favorites, Hitchcock and other great movie directors, Oscar |
Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, John Ford, William Wyler, Billy Wilder, Woody Allen, Steven Spielberg, and Martin Scorsese are listed.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Dec 29, 2023 | A, Awards Season, Best International Film, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Genres (Musical-Western), Mystery, New Releases, Ratings: Movies and Television, Thriller |
Thrilling edge-of-your-seat entertainment, all the while touching on such themes as racism, immigration, and freedom of speech.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Dec 7, 2023 | A-, Best International Film, Drama, Film Reviews, Historic Events, New Releases, Ratings: Movies and Television, Thriller |
The banality of evil winds its way around every scene. However, we do feel something. Tension, perhaps, mixed with boredom.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Dec 29, 2023 | Action, Awards Season, B-, Best International Film, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Genres (Musical-Western), Historic Events, Mystery, New Releases, Ratings: Movies and Television, Thriller |
The movie is narrated by a dead man, law student Numa Turcatti, who was the last person to die on the mountain. Disappointing but worth seeing.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | May 28, 2023 | Awards Season, Film Festivals, Le Festival de Cannes |
The Palm d’Or (First Prize) went to Justine Triet for the French courtroom drama “Anatomy of a Fall”.
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