Recently I read the fascinating book The Big Picture by Ben Fritz which chronicles the dramatic changes in last two decades or so in the movie industry and one thing stuck out to me more clearly than ever. Most of us cinephiles have bemoaned that the current climate seems to only allow for very big event movies …
And just like that, I hit post #100. I realize that nobody else cares about that statistic other than me, but here we are. It feels like an accomplishment and I'm going to take it. And as I did with post #50 I decided to make this one more personal than usual. And I decided …
Here is my continuation of my pledge to watch 52 films directed by women this year. Given the fact that next month I officially close the book on 2017 (if my deadline to file 2017 taxes is April, then I figure that's as good a time to also wrap up 2017 in film) this month …
It is no surprise that the idea of using DVDs and Blu-Rays to watch movies has become somewhat antiquated, especially with the rapid change in broadband availability making high-quality streams of movie not just a luxury but an expected part of any internet service. With the rise of the major streaming powerhouses of Netflix, Amazon, …
Continue reading The Beginning of the End for Physical Media for Movies?
Finally Oscar season is over which is both a relief and a shame. After the tightest and most open race in ages The Shape of Water came out with both the highest number of Oscars (4) and the big prize in Best Picture. But as is befitting to the nature of this year's race, the awards …
Let this be my public historical record so that I may be proven right afterwards or as a shining example of my hubris and lack of predictive powers. For the sake of brevity I'm not going to make a prediction on any of the shorts categories or the foreign language category because I did not …
(List has been updated to include last year's winner) And we have finally arrived at the Top 25 Oscar winners and suffice to say, these are all just great films with very little separating them. To be honest I could move any of these movies up and down a couple of slots and not have …
Continue reading Ranking Every Oscar Best Picture Winner Part 3 (#25-1)
(List has been updated to include last year's winner) Here is the continuation of my futile task of ranking all the Oscar winners. At some point in this list (somewhere in the mid-30s) the movies move from being decent to legitimately great and worthy winners of the prize. Even if they beat out another nominee …
Continue reading Ranking Every Oscar Best Picture Winner Part 2 (#56-26)
(List has been updated to include last year's winner) In conjunction with the upcoming Academy Awards this weekend, I engaged in the daunting task of catching up with every Best Picture winner ever. While there were moments when this task turned out to be a slog (especially at the end, when my excuses for avoiding …
Continue reading Ranking Every Oscar Best Picture Winner Part 1 (#90-57)
I will admit that for most of my run in catching up with the Best Picture winners I hadn't seen yet it has been a bit of a slog. It simply confirmed that there was a reason why I ignored most of these movies in the first place as I ran the gamut of over-wrought, …
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