The 91st Academy Awards happened on Sunday, February 24, and, much like last year, I’d like to use this week’s Spoiler Alert entry to review the results of the films that were nominated that I had previously written about!
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Alfonso Cuarón’s 2018 black-and-white, slow-paced film Roma, follows Cleo, played by Yalitza Aparicio, the live-in housekeeper of a well-off middle-class family in 1970s Mexico, for one year as she traverses love, pregnancy, a violent protest, caring for the family, and coming to terms with a tragic event.
With the Oscars just under two weeks away and the Golden Globes having passed just about a month ago, I felt the need to revisit the winners and nominees of the latter in preparation and anticipation of the former.
With the plethora of positive reviews, an abundance of media coverage, as well as eight Oscar nominations, Bradley Cooper and all others involved must be pretty satisfied with the success of A Star is Born (2018), Cooper’s directorial debut.
“Spider-Man” is no unfamiliar name: after six live action blockbuster movies and more to come, it can be easy to feel numb to any more Spider-Man-related stories.
Do you find yourself dropping everything to sing literally every part of Bohemian Rhapsody? Despite the name, don’t expect Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) to end once the infamous record is released.
If you find yourself needing a break from the played out and predictable “good people vs. bad people” mystery/thriller movies, stay for a night at the luxurious El Royale, right on the border of Nevada and California!
How do you rewrite history? I don’t have the answer, but apparently Damien Chazelle does. If you know of La La Land (2016), you know of Damien Chazelle, the writer/director.
