Essays

Best Foreign Language Film remains one of the tougher categories to predict well in advance, but the last few years have seen the race narrow…

When pundits begin to go on about the look of a film, most often the person they name drop is the director, or maybe the…

Don’t tell anyone, but the screenplay categories, both original and adapted, remain the only Oscar contests that truly matter to me. It’s not just my…

Why Watch? The upstanding, not at all imbalanced folks at Bloody Cuts recently held a short film competition that revolved around the theme “Who’s There?”.…

Unlike a singular song, a film’s score stays with a narrative from beginning to end, helping to reinforce the emotions on screen and round out…

The Best Original Screenplay Oscar is one category that, despite all the issues with the Academy Awards, seems to make at least some gestures in…

This year’s nominees for Best Original Song come from four films that tackle very different subject matter – fighting an evil villain (with the help…

Why Watch? Early on in this short film from Ari Aster, the young actress played by Rachel Brosnahan warns us to keep an open mind…

Of course it happened in February. Yesterday, Harold Ramis passed away from complications resulting from autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis, a rare blood disease. He is survived…