Well, that was interesting...
One of the best things to happen to the Oscars this year was the #OscarsSoWhite backlash and negative press the Academy received for lack of diversity in its nominees.
88th Academy Awards: Articles, live tweets, and a complete list of Oscar winners
Posted by: Showbiz Monkeys • February 28, 2016 @ 1:26am
88th Annual Academy Awards Coverage:
- Oscar Talk: Hear Leo Roar
- Complete List of Oscar Nominees & Winners
- Our Academy Awards Telecast Live-Tweeting
- Oscar Talk: Straight Outta Contention
- Oscar Talk: The Curious Case of Creed for Best Picture
How do you really know if a movie actually gets snubbed? Isn't art subjective? If so, then wouldn't the "snubs" the Academy is guilty of be just a matter of personal taste?
At the end of every year, critic groups from major North American cities like Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Toronto, and Boston name their Best Pictures.
Walkey Talk: It's Not Binary. Films Can Be Popular AND Ambitious
Posted by: Mike Walkey • January 3, 2016 @ 1:50pm
Part One: Ambition
I hate writing traditional movie reviews. I hate having to express myself within the confines of a structured checklist. Here's the plot summary. The acting was strong. The writing was confident. The sets were pretty. The music was loud.
Worst of all is having to rate films though some kind of metric: numbers, letters, stars, thumbs, tomatoes, etc.
Oscar Talk: The Curious Case of Creed for Best Picture
Posted by: Mike Walkey • December 28, 2015 @ 5:39pm
Is it really possible that Creed, the SEVENTH film in the Rocky franchise, could actually be that good? Seriously? For real?
I love the Rocky movies. I love every minute of each and every one, no matter how gloriously awful they've become.
It may be too early to discuss the Oscars, but the year in film is wrapping up with a disappointingly meager bang. Years previous, the winter has been a wonderland of cool, exciting new movies.
The 10 greatest moustaches in film and television history (plus a few more)
Posted by: Paul Little • November 4, 2015 @ 4:24am
Moustaches: the symbol of manliness. While in recent years, it appears moustaches have tragically gone "out of style", there should be little doubt that in their heydey, they were the ultimate fashion statement for men.
When I was in school, a teacher would sometimes catch me doing something I wasn't supposed to be doing.
Whenever they'd ask, "Michael, what are you doing?"
"Just putting on the second coat now!" was always my favourite response.
Interview: Director Guy Maddin on the ghosts of cinema past and his new film The Forbidden Room
Posted by: Tony Hinds • October 7, 2015 @ 8:20am
Guy Maddin's films have always had at least one foot planted firmly in a shadowy and beautiful cinematic past. Beginning with his first feature, the awe-inspiring Tales from the Gimli Hospital in 1988, Maddin's gaze seemed fixed backwards to a distant era in which the talking picture was still unfamiliar and strange.
Interview: A conversation with performance artists Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan
Posted by: Tony Hinds • September 23, 2015 @ 6:38pm
Feminist art fans take note. A vault is about to open, filled with the most subversively unique and beautifully hilarious gems. For the first time, a curated collection of the work of performance artists Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan will be available on Sept. 26.
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