By John H. Foote There were nine films nominated for the coveted Academy Award for Best Picture this year, though there was room for one more given this silly rule of increasing the nominees to up to 10. Oddly in the years since they have had this increase, there has never been 10 nominees. This…
By Alan Hurst Sally Field was one of the Kennedy Centre honorees last month, a deserved accolade for one of the best actresses of the last 50 years. I’m old enough to remember Sally Field from the initial runs of Gidget (1965-66), The Flying Nun (1967-70) and the short-lived The Girl with Something Extra (1973-74).…
By John H. Foote Divorce is a difficult act to go through, punishing, the death of a union, often the passing of a love that was once so intense, the couple could not imagine living without the other. The best films about divorce, those most honest, explore both sides, favouring no one, and allowing the…
By Nick Maylor This morning the Academy announced the nominees for the 92nd Academy Awards. They are… Best picture “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” “The Irishman” “Parasite” “1917” “Marriage Story” “Jojo Rabbit” “Joker” “Little Women” “Ford v Ferrari” Best actress in a leading role Renée Zellweger, “Judy” Charlize Theron, “Bombshell” Scarlett Johansson, “Marriage Story”…
By John H. Foote In one week at 5:30 am Pacific time, 8:30 am here, January 13, 2020, the nominations for this year’s Academy Awards will be announced. One week until we know which films, performances and achievements will be vying for the best of 2019. The year was rather extraordinary, with Netflix leaping into…
By John H. Foote Again, no introduction, just the films, which speak for themselves. 25. A STAR IS BORN (2018) Beautiful performances, lived in characters are the highlight of a very fine directing debut from Bradley Cooper, who also gave the finest performance of his career as a singer on the way down, falling in…
By Nick Maylor No big fancy intro. 2020 is just around the corner. Now that we’ve put 2019 to bed, here are 25 films to keep an eye out for coming in the first year of the new decade. 25. THE INVISIBLE MAN A science fiction psychological horror film written and directed by Leigh Whannell.…
By John H. Foote No fancy intro, just into it. 2019 will forever be remembered and celebrated as the year Netflix revolutionized the industry. I begin with fifteen runners up to the top ten in what was an exciting, strong year at the movies. I get so tired of hearing movies are worse than ever,…
By John H. Foote Why do an intro? These are the ten worst films I screened this year, I am sure there are others, I am sure I could do a list of runners up numbering very high. But I won’t because, at the end of the day, 2019 was a good year at the…
By John H. Foote Though he has not worked often when he does make a film, he makes it count and when working with actor Robert De Niro and director Martin Scorsese, it is legendary. Despite his small stature, Pesci can dominate a scene with the same ferocity as John Wayne, his explosive, uncontainable fury…