Essays

The Mayans, the wise race of ancients who created hot cocoa, set December 21st, 2012 as the end date of their Calendar, which the intelligent…

The Best Picture Academy Award is really what explains film as a collaborative effort. The Best Picture is what the Academy has found to be…

Film directors are responsible for every single aspect of their movie. That doesn’t mean they actually do each and every task on set, but it’s…

The Best Foreign Language Film category is an odd one in that most movie-goers (and probably most Academy members too) haven’t actually seen many of…

2012 Oscar Prediction: Best Supporting Actor A frustrated actor/director, a former alcoholic and bad father, an old man coming out as he approaches death, a…

As I note each week in Aural Fixation, music is one of the most important components in a film, providing the underlying emotion in certain…

Hey, who says there are no original ideas in Hollywood? Well, us actually, whenever we have to write about the next 80s-era television show getting…

While it’s inevitable that one day, perhaps one day soon, the Best Adapted Screenplay category will be jam-packed with reboots and comic book stories and…

While my feelings on the Best Original Song nominees (and my disappointment in the lack of songs nominated) are pretty clear, the two songs that…