Look Upon My Predictions, Ye Pundits, and Despair: My Oscars 2019 Scorecard

People really seem to like Queen. I mean, I can dig one or two Queen songs, but… I don’t get it. That’s okay, though. Let’s proceed to the actual scorecard. I’m counting it a win if either my Probable or Sleeper Predictions won. Does that give me an unfair double-shot of being right, and smug… Read More Look Upon My Predictions, Ye Pundits, and Despair: My Oscars 2019 Scorecard

Wes Anderson’s Doom: Special Screening of Awaited European Animated Film at Cannes

In my fisking of Variety’s pre-advertising for next year’s Oscars, I made this prediciton about Wes Anderson’s film Isle of Dogs: See? There’s already a ghetto for cartoons. “Dogs” will get nominated for this, and then lose to something Italian that gets a limited release in New York for a week. And that was before Wes… Read More Wes Anderson’s Doom: Special Screening of Awaited European Animated Film at Cannes

The Oscars Were Boring, Just Like Every Other Year….

The Hollywood Reporter offers the usual dead-horse cruelty: As a television event, this year’s Oscars was more like an endurance test — turgid, badly directed, poorly produced and featuring an endless string of tired or wince-inducing moments from host Ellen DeGeneres. To which one can only add, well, isn’t that what it always is? A… Read More The Oscars Were Boring, Just Like Every Other Year….