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Christopher Nolan has won DGA.

Celine Song wins First-Time Feature Director.

Finished this category as well. The ABC's of Book Banning - A group of children are interviewed and give their thoughts on the issue of banning certain books. This is what I call a "no shit, Sherlock" documentary, meaning if you already agree with the premise, it just reinforces it. But it...

MEAN GIRLS Cast: Angourie Rice, Renee Rapp, Auli'i Cravalho, Jaquel Spivey, Christopher Briney, Avantika, Bebe Wood, Jenna Fischer, Tina Fey, Tim Meadows. Dirs: Samantha Jayne & Arturo Perez Jr. This is the film version of the stage musical adaptation of the 2004 teen comedy where a homeschooled...

LISA FRANKENSTEIN Cast: Kathryn Newton, Cole Sprouse, Liza Soberano, Carla Gugino, Henry Eikenberry, Joe Chrest. Dir: Zelda Williams. A sullen teenage girl whose mother has been murdered gets obsessed with a dead musician in an abandoned cemetery then after lightning strikes, this dead musician come...

Here's my assessment of the live-action shorts: The After - David Oyelowo plays a man who becomes an Uber driver after an unspeakable tragedy happens to him. The main thing this film has it going for it is David Oyelowo's truly great performance. I don't know if this one works as a short, it feels l...

ORION AND THE DARK Cast: Jacob Tremblay, Paul Walter Hauser, Angela Bassett, Colin Hanks, Mia Akemi Brown, Natasia Demetriou, Nat Faxon, Ike Barinholtz, Carla Gugino, Werner Herzog (voices). Dir: Sean Charmatz A young boy who's afraid of most everything especially the dark is visited by the actual e...

PRISCILLA Cast: Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Dagmara Domińczyk, Ari Cohen. Dir: Sofia Coppola. Based on her memoirs, this film chronicles Priscilla Presley's relationship and marriage to Elvis Presley from the time she met him when she was 14 through their separation/divorce in the early '70s. This ...

Story.

This one’s a bit of a surprise since he’s been having quite a comeback in this past couple of years.

R.I.P.

With Don Murray passing away, the earliest Supporting Actor nominee still alive is Russ Tamblyn, who’s also active on Twitter.

To people who have known me a long time, they would know I have been to the United States several times in the past...as a child and a couple of times as an adolescent. But I haven't been since. In case you didn't know, it is quite difficult to get a U.S. tourist visa as a young, single Filipino cit...

Correctly predicting the shorts often make or break one's Oscar pool so I decided to review all the shorts as soon as I see everything in one category. First up...Best Animated Short. Letter to a Pig is about a Holocaust survivor recounting his experiences to a classroom of children, in particular h...

Will edit as soon as I see them. This includes shorts.


The Color Purple
The Eternal Memory
Four Daughters
Golda
Io Capitano
To Kill a Tiger

ANATOMY OF A FALL Cast: Sandra Huller, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado Graner, Antoine Reinartz, Samuel Theis, Jehnny Beth, Saadia Bentaieb, Camille Rutherford, Anne Rotger. Dir: Justine Triet. When her husband is found dead from an apparent fall, a woman is tried for his murder. But was it? The premise ...

AQUAMAN AND THE LOST KINGDOM Cast: Jason Momoa, Patrick Wilson, Amber Heard, Nicole Kidman, Yahya Abdul Mahteen II, Randall Park, Temuera Morrison, Dolph Lundgren, Martin Short. Dir: James Wan. Black Manta still wanting revenge for the death of his father, wants to unleash an evil into the world. Aq...

I wish they’d go back to having only Oscar nominated or Oscar winning actors announce the nominations. I don’t think either of these people are even Academy members yet.