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Sunday
Oct022022

ICYMI - Best of August/September

We realize the site has been eerily quiet this past month. But as we meet backstage to rectify, here are a dozen highlights you might have missed these past two months...

A dozen highlights
Michelle Williams' Ocar campaign Nathaniel on the pundit freakout of her lead campaign
Emmys in Review Nathaniel shares highlights from TV's big night
Don't Worry Darling Glenn reviewed the film that's on everyone's lips albeit for the wrong reasons
Smackdown 1997 Special guests have a lively discussion on Julianne Moore, Joan Cusack, Kim Basinger and more to celebrate a great Oscar year
Almost There Cláudio revisited James Dean's iconic work in Rebel Without a Cause
Ranking: Joanne & Paul to honor "The Last Movie Stars" limited series, Cláudio watched all of the Newman & Woodward collaborations
Goddamn Asura Juan Carlos interviews the director of Taiwan's Oscar submission
Film Critic & The Common Man Ben shares what he learned launching a podcast with his brother
First Look - Babylon Thoughts Nathaniel had on the first official images
TIFF Baby Clyde, Matt, and Abe reviewed new films
Venice Elisa attended, Cláudio reviewed past winners, and Nathaniel gawked at fashion
Palme d'Or title switcheroos an international amusement

Coming in October. We're going to be careful about promising too much given the past two months but we will 100% be attending the NYFF (already in progress) and Middleburg festivals to discuss hot Oscar titles as well as exciting world cinema offerings. The 1951 Smackdown (already recorded) will also go up soon. And we will try to find time for some spooky treats for Halloween, too. Stay tuned. 

Monday
Aug012022

July. It's a Wrap

We're in the dog days of summer now. Just one month of the heat left to go. July flew by. Here are a dozen of the highlights in case you missed 'em...

 

Debbi Morgan in Eve's Bayou Nick takes on this modern classic that has a Criterion release coming
Fire of Love Glenn on the volcanic love documentary hit
Till Nathaniel talks to the director of this awards hopeful drama
28 Years 28 Films Cláudio celebrates his birthday with a film timeline
Laura Linney Double Vision She looks EXACTLY like her mother. Uncanny
Ranking the Men of LA Confidential Ben looks back at the men of this '97 classic
Stage Door: The Minutes a new play from Tracy Letts 
Mrs Harris Goes to Paris Chris reviews the frothy Lesley Manville dramedy
James Caan (RIP) Remembering an underappreciated great
Through Her Lens 2013 Juan Carlos series returns to look back at the work of female directors corresponding with each Oscar year, whether or not they were nominated (usually not) 
Almost There: Pam Grier Cláudio thinks she should've won the Oscar for Jackie Brown
Venice and TIFF lineups with photos, descriptions, and anticipation

COMING IN AUGUST
Emmy reviews of individual categories, new movies like Bullet Train, Luck, Girl Picture, They/Them, a few reader requests from the recent fundraiser, and a weeklong celebration of Cameron Diaz for her 50th birthday.

Finally, at the end of the month, the 1951 Supporting Actress Smackdown featuring the first screen adaptations of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, and Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. Since 3/5ths of the supporting actress nominees that month were from films on the obscure side (even for cinephiles), we'll fill in with celebrations of more celebrated movies of 1951, too. ANY REQUESTS?

Thursday
Jun302022

ICYMI - Best of June

June didn't work out exactly as we planned but we delivered most of what we promised (sorry Eleanor Parker -- we'll try to make up for it in July) and it sure ended on a high note with Baz Luhrmann's Elvis.

Here are a dozen of the highlights in case you missed 'em...

Halfway Mark the best performances and films of the year thus far
Almost There Emily Blunt - she's a perennial at "almost" snagging an Oscar nod so Cláudio talked The Devil Wears Prada
• Judy Garland @ 100 we covered nine movies from ending with her final film I Could Go On Singing
Best Shot Fire Island this one was fun to really look at... and not just for thirst reasons
Ranking International Feature Oscar winners - Juan Carlos has seen them all
Emma Thompson in Good Luck To You Leo Grande - what a performance!
Jurassic World Dominion - Chris says the franchise should go extinct now
Stage Door - we launched a weekly theater column w/ a celebration of Mare Winningham
• "TV" Movie or Just"Movie" - The Emmys are so confusing!
The 75th Annual Tony Awards - back to basics so it was good musical fun!
• Klute Deep Dive - a tag team miniseries on the seminal thriller.  
Tom & Dickie - Chris got in the bath with The Talented Mr Ripley

COMING IN JULY 
New films like Marvel's Thor Love and Thunder, Lesley Manville & Isabelle Huppert in Mrs Harris Goes to Paris, and Jordan Peele's Nope. Plus plenty on the Emmy nominations (which will be announced July 12th) ...for better and worse. We also hope to do a few reader's requests from the fundraiser. And a celebration of the director Blake Edwards (Breakfast at Tiffanys, Victor/Victoria) for his Centennial.

Finally, at the end of the month, the 1997 Supporting Actress Smackdown so we'll be discussing Boogie Nights, Good Will Hunting, LA Confidential, Titanic, In & Out, and maybe some other 1997 gems, scattered throughout the month. 

Saturday
Jun252022

Halfway Mark 1: Fav Films & Miscellaneous Achievements of 2022 (thus far)

by Nathaniel R

The following list honors films released between January 1st, 2022 and June 30th, 2022. Obviously studios save the bulk of their perceived "prestige" pictures until the back half of the year but we always hope that lists like this will remind them they don't need to and to remind audiences that there's good stuff all year round. These are not official nominees for our own film bitch awards but they do function as reminder lists as we compile year-end stuff later on. If every Academy member and critic did this, awards season would be far more varied and film culture would be more robust because people would be seeing movies all year round and not cramming in only a small heap of them at year's end. 

Okay off of the soapbox and on to the favourites of 2022 (thus far) in alpha order by category. The pictures do not indicate winners as they're all winners. This is just an appreciation for these artists and movies...  

Click to read more ...

Sunday
May292022

ICYMI - Best of May

The multiverse fever of May breaks very soon and in its place, whatever June brings. But what will that be... beside birthday gifts for me (haha) But let's look back quickly at May in case you missed these highlights. You've been quiet as mice in the comments but we hope you're still enjoying. We do take requests if you have any. (May was very light outside of Cannes coverage we're aware but June will be jam-packed. Gird your loins)

A Dozen May Highlights
FYC Honorary Oscars - 20 suggestions
Anthony Hopkins full casting circle - from CS Lewis to Sigmund Freud
Best Shot: Happy Together - what a ravishment to revisit
Nostalgia via The Breakfast Club - Baby Clyde revisited from a British kid-at-the-time perspective
On Alexander Skarsgård - Matt says he's a character actor in hunk body
Multiverse of Madness - Raves for The Scarlet Witch, otherwise... eh
Returning Show Bottleneck - Chris wondered what will happen at the Emmys since they like to repeat themselves but ALL of their favs are returning (so they won't be able to to)
Support Everything Everywhere All At Once - Eurocheese argued it's a cant-miss big screen event. Lots of people agreed to leggy box office results 

and of course our Cannes coverage with 1 of us (Elisa) in the South of France and 2 of us (Nathaniel and Cláudio) typing away from our homes...

Cannes Winners - with links to all of Elisa's reviews
Cannes at Home: The Square and 4 Month 3 Weeks and 2 Days - It's hard to pick just one of Cláudio's retros to share but both of these films are so fascinating so it was great to revisit mentally if not by actual screenings
Cannes Fashion - Your last chance to vote on these 11 rounds of Cannes gowns. Who were the greatest actress fashionistas this edition?

COMING IN JUNE

New films: Baz Luhrmann's Elvis, Joel Kim Booster in Fire Island, David Cronenberg's Crimes of the Future, Pixar prequel Lightyear, Fabulous Emma Thompson in Good Luck to you Leo Grande, and tiny Marcel the Shell with Shoes On; Retro celebrations: Judy Garland Centennial, Eleanor Parker Centennial, and the last episodes of "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" including Titanic, Yentl, and Klute; And More: Emmy FYCs, new interviews, Tony Awards coverage, and at the end of the month the "Halfway Mark" lists for Best Cinematic Achievements Thus Far in 2022. Plus the new SUPPORTING ACTRESS SMACKDOWN schedule. 

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