Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs is the biopic about the late Apple founder we wanted. Michael Fassbender and Kate Winslet gives a career-best performances. The biopic is a very hard genre to do well. So often do films fall into the familiar formula of hard childhood, humble beginnings, major setback, and success. That’s what exactly went wrong with…
The Oscars are this Sunday, which means it's time to give you our FINAL 2016 Oscar Predictions. This means that from this point forward I are sticking with out picks and not changing at all. Now, while I try to use the most analytic process to choose who I think will win, sometimes you just have to…
Best Film Editing is a very important category at the Oscars. You need to be at least nominated in the category to win. Last year’s Best Picture winner “Birdman” was an anomalous case since it was edited to look as if it was filmed in one take. So ignoring that year, the last time the…
At the end of every month we are going to review all the books we read and say which ones we recommend and which we think you should leave on the shelf. Enjoy our January Reading Wrap-Up! The Martian - Andy Weir The year is 2035, the Ares III manned mission on Mars is forced to…
For the last ten years, Best Original Screenplay has gone to a Best Picture nominee. The last time it didn't was in 2005 when "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" won. If this trend continues, then unfortunately "Ex Machina," my second favorite movie of 2015, is out of the running. "Straight Outta Compton" would also be knocked out, but I'll…
It's music's biggest night! The Grammy Awards are coming up on February 15th. Here are our 2016 Grammy Predictions for the general field categories! Album of the Year Nominees: "1989" - Taylor Swift "Beauty Behind the Madness" - The Weeknd "Sound & Color" - Alabama Shakes "To Pimp A Butterfly" - Kendrick Lamar "Traveller" -…
Best Director has quickly become the category where the visionary filmmaker is honored. Ang Lee won for "Life of Pi" in 2013, Alfonso Cuarón for "Gravity" in 2014, and Alejandro G. Iñarritu for "Birdman" in 2015 (his film was the most visionary of the group, at least). However, this year we have the debacle of having…
The Book of Joe is an often hilarious and sometimes sweet take on the life of a man of a certain age. I think nailing comedy in a book is a lot harder than a lot of people think. It is difficult to get a joke to land properly when you can’t control its pacing…
This is perhaps the most competitive race for Best Picture this decade, maybe even this century. Never has the field been so divided. It seems that every precursor indicator contradicts another and just when we think momentum is building, it is quickly taken away. “Spotlight” maintained the frontrunner status throughout the critics awards even thought…
Out of the three acting races at this year's Oscars, Best Supporting Actress is by far that hardest one to suss out. Unlike the last few years, there hasn't been one actress that has been consistently winning awards and that has the clear momentum that makes her the frontrunner for the Oscars. The critics awards…
