Best Films Of The Year 2023
Choosing the best films of the year is a task fraught with complexity and subjectivity. The sheer volume of films released annually means that even the most diligent critics and […]
The Oscars 2023 – The Final Predictions
Six months of “awards season” will come to an end this Sunday mercifully with the presentation of the Academy Awards, still the award in cinema that matters most (even if […]
The Oscars 2022 – Summed Up!
So much Oscar history was made last night yet all anyone is talking about is the slap heard around the world, the one Will Smith delivered to comedian Chris Rock, […]
The Oscars – Are we part of the problem?
Are we part of the trouble with the Oscars?? We critics, writers, and bloggers start talking Oscar at TIFF, which is kind of the unofficial beginning of Oscar season and […]
Twenty Years Of The Oscars – Best Actress Snubs!
Amy Adams has been a frequent nominee for Best Actress, yet has just as many times been a shocking omission, ‘Enchanted’ (2007) and ‘Arrival’ (2016) the most bizarre of the […]
Twenty Years Of The Oscars – Best Actor Snubs!
In honour of the great Delroy Lindo, one in a very long line of actors snubbed cruelly (this year) for his sterling performance in ‘Da Five Bloods’, I went back […]
Twenty Years Of The Oscars – Best Actress Awards
And now the ladies! Did they win because of the sheer genius of their performance, or because they were “due” or for sentimental reasons, or they represented the flavour of […]
Twenty Years Of The Oscars – Best Actor Awards
Should they or was another actor more worthy? Was their performance truly for the ages, as an Academy Award winning performance should be, or a win to atone for losing […]
The Oscars 2021 – Academy Contenders Reflecting The Times?
Films are often thought to be a purely escapist art form when in fact some of the greatest films ever made both comment and educate on historical and modern happenings, […]
The Academy Awards 2021 Nomination – The Cinemawala Prediction.
On March 15, the Academy Award nominations will begin the countdown to the biggest year of the year in Hollywood. Wildly late, and leaned down to the pandemic, this year’s […]
The Oscars 2020 – Final Prediction
The race has been over for weeks folks, all that is needed is the handing out of the awards. There might be a couple of surprises, but the Oscar race […]
The Oscars 2020 – Oh, The Snubs!
The Academy Awards are just hours away but frankly, it is the most anti-climatic year in recent memory. The big news will be ANY surprises, but given the earlier awards […]
The Oscars 2020 – The Best Films Nominations, Ranked.
There were nine films nominated for the coveted Academy Award for Best Picture this year, though there was room for one more given this silly rule of increasing the nominees […]
The 11 Greatest Films About Divorce, Ranked.
Divorce is a difficult act to go through, punishing, the death of a union, often the passing of a love that was once so intense, the couple could not imagine […]
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