It’s been a long, strange trip, Oscarwatchers. I don’t think these will be my last predictions ever. But it’s highly probable they will be the last predictions on this site, which, if I decide to end this year, I...
I shouldn’t have laughed this hard but I did. All through it. It is probably their best one. Usually I find them mildly off-putting but something about this year — the woketacular, woketacular of it all just slotted in...
The Oscar ballots have already been turned in, so it doesn’t really matter what happens this weekend in terms of building momentum that influences the consensus. What will be, will be. It might help decide some wins, but it...
Things are changing fast in this country and probably the world. That is bad news for the people who have been used to being in power. They might not have noticed but we’ve just lived through something like a...
This year’s Oscar race is the blind leading the blind. I see it as a Ponzi scheme that has now collapsed entirely. The bottom has dropped out. No one has seen most of the movies. If anything, a growing...
It would be the understatement of the year to say this was a quite shocking, and to many, upsetting week when it came to the Oscar race. What was already an unpredictable, and quite frankly, indefinable awards season with...
The Oscar race has seen better days. Take it from me. I’ve been writing about them, obsessing on them, for half of my life. Were it not for the lifers who still come here and write me nice letters...
For every Oppenheimer, there is a Crash. For every No Country for Old Men, there is an Everything, Everywhere All At Once. The Academy is an ever-changing demographic that ushers in one generation after another. What generation you happen...
I know you are all waiting to see what I think about the Oscar nominations. Just kidding, there are about a bazillion people out there offering their takes. They’re everywhere. You certainly don’t need to know mine. But I’ll...
Nominations will be announced on Thursday morning — GASP — it came up all of a sudden, didn’t it? I’m not really ready for Phase 2 myself. I kind of wish we could stay in this lull between imagining...