Posts tagged oscars

With little narrative speed or motivation, Park Chan Wook’s 2013 psychological family thriller Stoker had a fifty-fifty chance of stalling or soaring. After securing a …

Directed by Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild is a really symbolic film. The audience get to follow main characters:Hush Puppy and her dad …

Award Season Recap: Actresses who were snubbed… Although the award season is months to come, it still lingers in the back of my mind what …

Well, it took a while (I’m getting more and more swamped with wedding stuff as the big day approaches – only a month and a …

As always, such an anticlimax. But, the consensus in my tiny Oscar watchfest was “they were not that terrible”. Given that these are the Oscars, …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM9e6RnTz1s1 Well, the ceremony is TODAY. It’s time to admit I have failed. As a person, a partner, a daughter and as a blogger. I …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlI1ljqxv4E1 This is an awesome and adorable children’s rendition of Oscar nominees for the best picture. As always, kids speak only the truth. This time …

The Artist begins with an intertexual nod to our hero’s predicament. We see a silent film shown in a grand movie house. The scene unfolds as …

Well, now we know why the Oscars are so irrelevant, so bland, so boring, so conventional. Because the Academy is comprised almost exclusively of white …

As the Oscar approaches, I am of course devouring one best picture nominee after the other, so I can be good and ready come February …