Ever since the unprecedented box office success of the first Avengers film, studios have been jumping on the “extended universe” bandwagon left and right. That’s why we have an awful Justice League series, and why we will soon be treated with King Arthur, Robin Hood, and Universal Monsters series in the Avengers style. Even Godzilla…
I don’t mean to toot my own horn or anything like that, but I do say with no small amount of smugness that my predictions are better than anyone else’s. Am I perhaps being a wee bit arrogant, considering that I base that statement on only the fact that I predicted last year’s Academy Awards…
How about those Oscar nominations, eh? There seems to be a whole lot of blandly inspiration “true story” movies this year. Of course, we could hang around counting snubs until, as the kids say, the cows come home, or we could focus on just one, because despite this misleading intro, this article concerns something totally…
So, about those Oscar nominations… We go through this every year, and mostly the Oscars fail to interest. This year is no different. Nothing all that interesting happens at the Oscars. Perhaps the biggest snubs were in the Best Leading Actor category, which was an admittedly tight race this year. The nominees are Michael Keaton…
I was recently thinking back to last year and all the good movies that came out then: 12 Years a Slave, Gravity, Her, Captain Phillips, Prisoners, Mud, Much Ado About Nothing, Pacific Rim, American Hustle, Inside Llewyn Davis, and many others. This year has not been as good, especially as far as Oscar movies are…
The Golden Globe nominations came out today, and that was really the only surprising thing about them. Seriously, the nominations themselves are pretty much what you’d expect them to be, but did anyone know that the announcement was going to happen today? I didn’t. Let’s all be honest with each other. The only reason anyone…
