Every year I kind of forget to prepare myself for the Oscar Drama genre, a subgenre of the Drama made specifically in an effort to win awards. Or maybe I just harbor some secret hope that they’ll go away one day. They won’t. I know they won’t. It’s okay. They’re not all bad. Carol (2015)…
I have been having sort of a bad week. Bad weeks come and go as all things do, so after a while one simply has to take them in stride and attempt to locate the sparse rays of sunshine. Wednesday night, at 8:00 in the post meridiem, BBC4 decided, apparently for no particular reason, to…
This is, what, the third or fourth Steve Jobs movie to come out since his death? Obviously, with a combo-pack of Danny Boyle, Aaron Sorkin, and its all-star cast, it’s the only one with any momentum or potential, and has all the ingredients needed to set itself up as a major awards contender, because, as…
Well, Halloween’s come and gone, which means it is, yet again, Oscar season. If we’re counting The Martian, then this year’s Oscar season is already off to a much better start than last year’s notably terrible one. I can’t say I have particularly high hopes for most of the likely contenders yet to hit theaters,…
Yeah, I’m doing a second opinion article. For the record, SciFridays is a great column, and this is the first time, I think, that I have ever strongly disagreed with anything Sarah has ever said in the last three years of writing it. But gee whiz do I ever disagree this time. Crimson Peak (2015)…
Because I am not made of stone. I am a man, and all men have their weaknesses. Mine is Vincent Price. Apparently. Anyway, this week’s climactic Octoberween extravaganza brings you not just a triple-feature, but one of tripled excellence. It’s not just an Edgar Allan Poe triple-feature, not just a Roger Corman triple-feature, not just…
This has never happened before. It may never happen again. This could shock you. I don’t know. Do you have a high shock tolerance? You have my apologies if this shocks you. Ladies and gentlemen (I know I have some readers in both categories, although ladies do, predominantly, love Second Breakfast), I have an announcement…
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