April 25, 2021–What a weird year, and even stranger that we are well into 2021 still awarding a gaggle of movies that showed up sporadically on our devices during our year long streaming binge. A year without movies turned out to be simply a year of watching movies at home. Steven Soderbergh ended up producing …
Where to begin with 2020? Way back in February when I saw Harrison Ford’s CGI-rific version of The Call of the Wild, there is no way I would have known that it was the last new movie I’d see in a theater for the rest of the year. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, studios clutched …
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Hollywood continues to be stuck in a rut of throwing money at the tried and true. More sequels! More reboots! We are getting painstaking “live action” remakes that are technically dazzling, but lacking the magic that made the originals beloved (I’m talking to you, Disney, with your Lion King, Dumbo, and Aladdin). We are getting …
February 25, 2019–Well, everyone can breathe a sigh of relief that the Oscars survived intact this year. With no host, and trying to scramble up from last year’s all-time low ratings, the Academy Awards hoped to pull viewers back in by nominating not just one, but several blockbuster films (Black Panther, A Star Is Born, …
As we come to the end of a year that was particularly vicious in the world and in the media, it makes sense that we’ve been rushing to the movies for escapism. Apparently speaking to a need, superheroes seem to get more popular in cinemas every year, and the big studios feed our want for …
March 5, 2018–Well everyone, it’s a wrap! Thank goodness for everyone (except maybe the ratings) that there wasn’t another Oscar-level flub with an envelope mix-up like last year. The rather uneventful and somewhat predictable telecast still stood out for making a notable effort to acknowledge the #metoo movement and overall inclusiveness, pushing for diversity in …
Wow, 2017 was exhausting, wasn’t it? With a news cycle on hyperspeed and worldwide tensions amped up to nerve-wracking levels, it is unsurprising that we wanted to excape to the movies. Movies looking back in history were disturbingly timely, and the really good comedies seemed sharper than ever with their social commentary. Then came (FINALLY) …
The Hollywood film industry seems to be fighting a losing battle against home entertainment. Not only are the big studios running of ideas, movie-wise (the 2017 summer movie season was down almost 15%), but people are choosing to stay home in their souped-up home theaters where not only is the company better, but so are …
February 26, 2017–In the beginning, all that could be talked about was how many awards would La La Land end up with at the end of the evening. With an amazing 14 nominations, the love letter to Hollywood and musicals was tied only with All About Eve and Titanic for the most ever. Would it manage …
2016 will go down as a rollercoaster, shit-show of a year, whether in regards to the never-ending horrific headlines of violence both at home and abroad, to the astonishing year in politics, to the punch-in-the-gut unexpected deaths of beloved celebrities. 2016 was simply a bully. But that is why we go to the movies, right? …