Write Readers, we’re about halfway there! The next film on the list is absolutely my favorite, and the one I’m rooting for to win the Academy Award for Best Picture: Lion. Lion is the true story about an Indian boy named Saroo who gets lost from home at the age of five, and it takes…
The next film on our list is as different as different could be, both within its genre and this category. And it’s a space movie, which all avid Write Readers know I actively avoid. (Please see the Gravity post for further explanation.) Arrival, starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, and Forest Whitaker, is a science fiction…
Dear Write Readers, Another year has passed! Another year older, perhaps another year wiser, and another Oscar season is upon us! How time flies! Let’s start our journey in the Wild West. The wild, new West, we could call it. Opening on wide open spaces and vast emptiness, “Closed” signs and motionless trains, this Texas…
Keep on keeping on, Write Readers. We’re trucking through our list. Let us discuss the Amazon original film, Manchester by the Sea. Manchester by the Sea was written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan, and starring Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, and Lucas Hedges. The film was first premiered at Sundance, at which point it…
Ah yes, the City of Angels. In our next film, it has been confirmed that Hollywood is the most vapid place anyone has ever been, or will ever be again. I spent two hours in La La Land, and really couldn’t wait to get back. Here it is, folks, the darling of the Golden Globes…
Write Readers, let’s talk about a film that has gotten so much buzz you’d think it was guaranteed to win. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Hidden Figures. Hidden Figures is a film written by Theodore Melfi and Allison Schroeder, and based on the book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly. Directed by Melfi,…
“In the moonlight, black boys look blue.” Moonlight, directed by Barry Jenkins, is perhaps the most beautiful film I’ve seen all season. While I have doubts about it’s ability to beat La La Land, mostly because the Academy likes pretentious films, it’s the film most worthy of the title of Best Picture in 2017. I…
Write Reader(s), we’re counting down the minutes to the start of the show, and Brooklyn is the second to last film to be reviewed on our list. Of course, it’s difficult to absorb a simple film like Brooklyn when you’ve just watched Matt Damon fly through space in The Martian, but I am prepared to…
Dear Write Readers, the end is near! There are only three films left on the list, and The Martian is next up. So here it begins. The sad space movies. If you’ve read any of my previous reviews, you’ll know that sad movies aren’t really my forte. I’m not great at watching sad movies. I…
We’ve made it to film five on our list. Whew. It’s been a long few days, filled with movie magic. The next bit of movie magic is The Revenant, starring Leo himself. As I sat in the theatre waiting for this movie to begin, I was musing on Leo’s run with the Academy Awards, and…