We’re less than a month away from the 90th Academy Awards ceremony and, somewhat surprisingly, the race is just about anybody’s game. Well, not anybody. There are a select number of proper contenders and a few films that need to practice their “It was an honor just to be nominated!” reactions. But unlike in years […]
The Emmy Award nominations are hours away. *There are some rule changes, for the nomination process, please refer to my last piece. One of the bigger changes was defining a comedy as 30 minutes; there was a clause which allowed a series to petition this rule. Shameless, Glee, and Jane the Virgin won their petition, […]
For the first time in many years, the Oscar race is pretty hard to predict. Sure Best Picture has had some surprising results, Crash over Brokeback Mountain, or Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan, but this year it almost feels as though you could toss a coin and have better results. This is not […]
Now that most of the critics groups have had their say, through awards and top ten lists, and the Screen Actor’s Guild (SAG), and Golden Globe Nominations have been announced, its time to get in some updated Oscar predictions before the end of the year. I’m working off a moderately outdated list, because the last […]
Yesterday the nominations for the Gotham Awards were announced and no surprise Boyhood led the nominations with four, Best Feature, Best Actor (Ethan Hawke), Best Actress, (Patricia Arquette), and Breakthrough Actor (Ellar Coltrane). Since the film’s release and almost unanimous critical support the film has been the frontrunner for Best Picture. But do the Gotham […]
The Rest of the Tour: The Winnipeg Jets Toronto Maple Leafs The Calgary Flames The Ottawa Senators The Oilers The Edmonton Oilers had a span of three seasons in a row where they had the #1 pick in the NHL entry draft. With these three picks they chose Taylor Hall, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, and Nial Yakupov […]
The Rest of the Tour: The Toronto Maple Leafs The Winnipeg Jets The Calgary Flames The Senators Other than maybe Vancouver, there is no other team in Canada that has endured more than enough of their fair share of roster changes and different leadership roles than in Ottawa. Just one year remove from the devastating […]
I know what you are thinking, yes its only September, but with festival circuit in full swing, Telluride, Venice, and Toronto, it’s time to start talking about and predicting this year’s Oscar contenders. I have held back as long as I can. The earliest “serious” contender came from the Cannes Film Festival, Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher […]