Month: December 2017
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The Morning After: Dec. 11, 2017
Welcome to The Morning After, where I share with you what movies I’ve seen over the past week. Below, you will find short reviews of those movies along with a star rating. Full length reviews may come at a later date. So, here is what I watched this past week: Lady Bird After spending years…
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Review: Get Out (2017)
Get Out Rating Director Jordan Peele Screenplay Jordan Peele Length 1h 44m Starring Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Catherine Keener, Bradley Whitford, Caleb Landry Jones, Marcus Henderson, Betty Gabriel, Lakeith Stanfield, Stephen Root, Lil Rel Howery MPAA Rating R for violence, bloody images, and language including sexual references Original Preview Click Here
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 3
As the precursor awards continue unabated until Oscar night, I’m going to be providing a weekly update highlighting the films that have won and lost momentum through the precursor awards (and in some cases other outside influences). A bountiful week of precursors this week with even more to come next week. There were a lot…
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Precursor: 75th Golden Globe Nominations (2017)
Leading the nominations, The Shape of Water once again proved more potent than Dunkirk, which picked up no acting nominations and only one tech citation. However, the most notable thing here is the snub of black directors Dee Rees and Jordan Peele and female helmer Greta Gerwig. While there’s one Spanish director in the Best…
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Precursor: 12th St. Louis Critics Nominations (2017)
What’s most interesting here is just how well The Shape of Water did while the other technical marvel of the year, Dunkirk received less than half the nominations. Other hot takes are the absence of Call Me By Your Name, largely ignored, and the year’s other major gay drama BPM (Beats Per Minute missing the…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 11 (2017)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Precursor: 21st Toronto Critics Awards (2017)
A greatest hits list of previous precursor winners here with a strong showing by The Florida Project. Does this mean we now have to take the film serious as a Best Picture contender? Perhaps. Perhaps not. We shall see how it does with the Producers Guild of America. The rest of these choices are also…
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Precursor: 1st Philadelphia Critics Awards (2017)
Get Out won big at the inaugural Philadelphia Film Critics Circle awards. Winning four awards, the film outshone all other nominees while Allison Janney picked up a third prize, Woody Harrelson got his first and Sally Hawkins and Daniel Day-Lewis made cases for being certain Oscar nominees. The choices here are a bit different than…
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Precursor: 16th New York Online Critics Awards (2017)
The first Best Picture tie of the season goes to The Florida Project and Mudbound. Willem Dafoe wins another while Gary Oldman, Margot Robbie, and Allison Janney each picking up their second awards of the season. Dee Rees earns her first award for directing with Hedy Lamarr and In the Fade also making entries into…
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Precursor: 30th Chicago Critics Nominations (2017)
Trending the opposite direction of other guilds, Call Me by Your Name, which doesn’t have a lot of below-the-line contenders, still managed to top the nomination count with eight. The Disaster Artist performed more strongly here than it likely will with the Academy and The Shape of Water also did well. Award Tallies (8) Call…
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Poll: Best of Dec. 2016, Limited
Return Links Polls What’s the Best of Dec. 2016, Limited?
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Film Preview: Forever My Girl (2018)
Page Revisions: (December 3, 2017) Original Release Date: January 19, 2018 Synopsis: From IMDb: “After being gone for a decade a country star returns home to the love he left behind.” Poster Rating: C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: A supposedly inspiring poster that doesn’t accentuate the film’s premise nearly as well as the creators…
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Precursor: 16th San Francisco Critics Awards (2017)
San Francisco went an unexpected direction with their 2017 winner for Best Picture. The Florida Project has gained some pretty surprising traction, beating out Call Me by Your Name, which would have been my prediction for this group’s winner. The rest of the winners are largely predictable with the exception of Andy Serkis for Best…
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Precursor: 38th Boston Critics Awards (2017)
Boston has gone in fairly hard for Phantom Thread giving it a Best Picture win that no one expected. They also gave most of their other awards to expected contenders. Award Tallies (3) Phantom Thread (2) Get Out, Lady Bird The Awards
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Precursor: 16th San Francisco Critics Nominations (2017)
Blowing away all others, The Shape of Water was their most nominated film followed distantly by Call Me by Your Name and Dunkirk. There aren’t any out-of-left-field selections on this list. Award Tallies (9) The Shape of Water (5) Call Me by Your Name, Dunkirk (4) Blade Runner 2049, Get Out, Lady Bird, The Florida…
