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My Predictions For The 2023 Academy Awards

This year makes it my twenty-third year of seeing all the Best Pictures nominees before Oscar night! How do I do it? Actually how do I afford it? Anyways the Oscars are again to be held on the second Sunday of March. Jimmy Kimmel is back as the host. Its’ so refreshing to have a host back! Once again, I make my predictions for who I think will win. Here’s who I think will be the winners of the…

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Oscars 2023 Review: Best Animated Feature Nominees

This year makes it the first year I had the luck to see all five nominees for the Best Animated Feature. A lot of good films. Most are family-oriented but some have some adult appeal. Three are American made with one from Japan and one from Spain. Here are my reviews of the Best Animated Feature nominees: The Boy And The Heron Anime may or may not be to your liking. but Hayao Miyazaki makes…

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2023 Oscars Best Picture Review: The Zone Of Interest

Sandra Huller plays the wife of a top Nazi in Auschwitz in the haunting The Zone Of Interest. It would be naturally impulsive to dismiss The Zone Of Interest as ‘another Holocaust film.’ If you watch it, you will see it’s about more than just the Holocaust. Many people will say that Holocaust films have done countless times before. Even if it is true, there are many angles one can see the…

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2023 Oscars Best Picture Review: Poor Things

Emma Stone plays a woman whom, thanks to a transplanted brain, is able to rid herself of the nasty men in her life in Poor Things. There have been oddball romances before but Poor Things is something else. It’s interesting how some weird science can change a woman’s life for the better. If you’ve seen Yorgos Lanthimos’ past films, you’ll know he doesn’t shy away from bizarre stories or an…

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2023 Oscars Best Picture Review: Past Lives

Teo Yoo and Great Lee star as two childhood sweethearts who could be destined to be for each other after all these years in Past Lives. Do you believe in destiny? Do you believe in reincarnation? Past Lives is a story that examines it and how it pertains to love. Reincarnation and a person’s belief they had a past life or many past lives is a topic popular with many. It’s also a topic of great…

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2023 Oscars Best Picture Review: Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer will get you questioning whether J. Robert Oppenheimer (played by Cillian Murphy) deserves to seen as a hero or villain, or neither. Would a film about J. Robert Oppenheimer attract crowds to the cinema this summer? Oppenheimer proved to have the right stuff to make it happen. When the film first arrived, there was the big question. Would a film about the inventor of the atomic bomb…

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2023 Oscars Best Picture Review: Maestro

Maestro is a dead-on portrayal of Leonard Bernstein (played by Bradley Cooper) and his wife Felicia (played by Carey Mulligan) Would a film about Leonard Bernstein be worth seeing? The film Maestro succeeds in making anyone who likes music worth seeing. There are a lot of musical geniuses we know of for their music, but few we know of for themselves and the lives they led. Leonard Bernstein is…

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2023 Oscars Best Picture Review: Killers Of The Flower Moon

Lily Gladstone (L to R), Robert de Niro and Leonardo di Caprio star in Killers Of The Flower Moon, a true crime drama that’s also an ugly part of history. Killers Of The Flower Moon is a film of a crime story we often forget. It’s one we need to be reminded of, especially because of the times we live in. Let’s face it. American Fiction may show how bad the entertainment industry is at dealing…

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2023 Oscars Best Picture Review: The Holdovers

From left to right: Dominic Sessa, Paul Giamatti and Da’Vine Joy Randolph make for unlikely Christmas guests in The Holdovers. DISCLAIMER: This is from a blog of four reviews I originally posted on March 2, 2024. The original blog will be removed shortly. At first, you’ll wonder if The Holdovers is the right movie for the Christmas Season or a bad movie for the Season. Not every Christmas movie…

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2023 Oscars Best Picture Review: Barbie

Margot Robbie (right) stars as Barbie and Ryan Gosling (left) star as Ken as Barbie bring the legendary dolls to life. DISCLAIMER: This is from a blog of four reviews I originally posted on March 2, 2024. The original blog will be removed shortly. Unless you’ve been under a rock, you would know that Barbie was the big hit movie of 2023. You may also ask did it deserve its box office success or…

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2023 Oscars Best Picture Review: Anatomy Of A Fall (Anatomie d'Une Chute)

Sandra Huller plays writer Sandra Voyter suspected of killing her husband in the courtroom thriller Anatomy Of A Fall. DISCLAIMER: This is from a blog of four reviews I originally posted on March 2, 2024. The original blog will be removed shortly. Anatomy Of A Fall first appears to be a common courtroom drama with a story of intrigue. Over time, you’ll learn it’s a film that’s a lot…

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2023 Oscars Best Picture Review: American Fiction

Jeffrey Wright portrays a serious African American writer who faces pressure from a white-dominated entertainment society in the comedy American Fiction. DISCLAIMER: This is from a blog of four reviews I originally posted on March 2, 2024. The original blog will be removed shortly. Not that often are the Academy Awards friendly to comedy films. American Fiction is just the type of comedy that…

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2023 Academy Awards: Best Picture Reviews - Part One

On Tuesday, January 23rd, the nominees for the 96th Academy Awards were all decided. Ten pictures were nominated for Best Picture. The selection of films nominated for Best Picture make up quite a mix. Four films nominated are comedies. Two films qualify as foreign-language films, though only one is an official entry in the Best International Feature Film category. Two were summer blockbusters,…

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2023 Oscars Short Films Review: Live-Action

It’s interesting when the Academy deliver their nominations for feature-length films, they’re mostly for English-language films. Most of them being American films. Yet the nominees for the short films categories are often multilingual. For the films nominated for the live-action category, we have  films in French and Danish. We also have three English-language films, but two are from the UK. Not…

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2023 Oscars Short Films Review: Animation

It’s interesting with seeing the reels of the shorts films, the Animation nominees are often the ones with the least running time. They go by so fast, the shorts.tv reel add in a couple of other shortlisted films that got their honorable mention. Anyways without further chit-chat, here are my reviews of the nominated animated shorts: Letter To A Pig (dir. Tai Kantor) – The story begins telling…

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2023 Oscars Short Films Review: Documentaries

Once again with the Academy Award nominations being awarded for the biggest feature-length films of the year, the AMPAS Academy also rewards the short films in three categories. I’m lucky to live in Vancouver where I can see the short films on the big screen. The first set of films I will be focusing on is Documentaries. In each of my blogs about the short films, you will also get my predictions…