By John H. Foote With the glut of film awards being handed out this past month, the big ones still to come, I have decided to give annual awards too. These are the winners of the first annual Foote Film Awards. Best Picture – THE IRISHMAN Best Director – Martin Scorsese for THE IRISHMAN Best…
By Nick Maylor 2019 has been jam-packed with a ton of great movie moments in films that have been years and decades in the making. Avengers: Endgame, The Irishman and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, were massive culminating events in and of themselves. Those films and several others inspired me to compile this list…
By John H. Foote THE 25 WORST FILMS OF THE DECADE It struck me that while composing this list of the very worst of the decade that I included films from actors such as Adam Sandler, Al Pacino, Angelina Jolie, Robert De Niro, Kristen Bell, Salma Hayek, Ryan Reynolds, John Travolta, Christian Bale, Tom Cruise,…
By Alan Hurst If you’re into Christmas, then you probably have a favourite Christmas movie (mine is 1947’s The Bishop’s Wife) or a favourite Christmas episode from an old sit-com (the 1970 episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show to name one). But Christmas can also pop up in a film that really isn’t about…
By John H. Foote 2019 has been the year of Scarlett Johansson. Sure her character Black Widow sacrificed herself in Avengers: Endgame (2019) but that was just the beginning. She has given her two finest performances this year, one a supporting role, the other a lead and the finest work of her career. Next year…
By Alan Hurst Golden Globe nominations for the best in movies and television from 2019 are in and, as with every year, a few surprises in terms of who’s in and who’s out. Netflix’ The Irishman and Marriage Story continue their awards trajectory with multiple nominations in the Best Motion Picture – Drama category, and…
By Nick Maylor The best film of the year (perhaps the decade), Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman (2019) was adapted from Charles Brandt’s book I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran and Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa. The book has been analyzed and criticized for those who claim that Frank Sheeran’s first-hand accounts…
By Alan Hurst Welcome to another round of some harmless second guessing of choices for the Academy Awards, this time focusing on the Best Actress selections from 1960 to 1969, a decade of major change in the output from Hollywood and Europe. The restrictions of the production code fell to the wayside by the latter…
By Nick Maylor I’m not a huge fan of making these big lists. Ranking stuff, in general, is tricky. Many films are simply “apples” that often get compared with “oranges”. The Marvel Cinematic Universe features so many films that span several genres. The first two decades of this century have seen a cinema that is…
By Craig Leask Who doesn’t like a good old black and white monster movie, especially around Halloween? My other half and I pull them out each year to help us get in the mood for the annual night of haunts. I guess they’re all somewhat simplistic today, but they really are a weird kind of…