Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. Director Joe Wright has only made nine film since his first in 2005, Pride…
For our first Rundown article, we tackle Original Song. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Original Song as well as general commentary about the race. Tomorrow, we’ll cover the other music category, Original Score.
New Trailer (#2) — New Posters (#1-#2) Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for all of the new content as well as the original.
Here we look at the upcoming month’s offerings. March 4, 2022 The Batman Premise: From IMDb: “In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.” Box Office Prospects: $200 M Expectations: Good. It’s hard to say…
There are two wide release and neither are likely to be huge hits, but I would guess that Cyrano was likely to do the better of the two. Our Highest Rated Films: Cyrano Our Best Awards Ratings: Cyrano (Oscars) OTHER LIMITED RELEASES 2022 Oscar Shorts (Limited) Butter (Limited) Immortal Soul (Limited) Let Me Be Me…
Delayed presumably due to the pandemic, this list is filled with dull selections and questionable ones (such as Zack Snyder’s director’s cut of Justice League being at all eligible). Nominations Tallies (5) Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Spider-Man: No Way Home (4) Don’t Look Up, No Time to Die, The Harder They…
Nothing much to see here and it’s too late to be of any value. Award Tallies (9) The Power of the Dog (5) Flee, Passing, West Side Story (4) Drive My Car, tick, tick…BOOM!, The Worst Person in the World (3) Dune, Mass, Parallel Mothers, Titane The Awards
Outside of the support of films like Encanto and In the Heights, this group’s selections look like most of the others. Nominations Tallies (13) West Side Story (12) The Power of the Dog (10) Dune (8) Encanto (6) Nightmare Alley, tick, tick…BOOM! (4) CODA, In the Heights, No Time to Die The Nominations
New This Week The Criterion Collection has released a 4K digital restoration of Leo McCarey’s Love Affair by the Museum of Modern Art on Blu-ray. Long consigned to public domain hell, release prints of the film until now have all been regretfully dismal. McCarey liked the story so much he filmed it twice. His 1957…