I had no interest in seeing Top Gun: Maverick even before its nomination. I watched the first one, but it didn't strike me as anything special. This could be because…
When Cate Blanchett is involved in a movie, awards buzz always seems to follow, so I wasn't surprised that Tar made the (not so) short Best Picture list. Even if…
At three hours and twelve minutes, Avatar: The Way of Water doesn't make it easy to continue the journey of Jake Sully and the Na'vi. The fourteen-year age gap between…
Anyone else feel like we need a WandaVision season two? Or a movie to explain how the Wanda we saw at the end of WandaVision became the Wanda in Doctor…
There's a reason why I call this series "The Slacker's Guide to the Oscars." As the minutes tick by, it's less and less likely this is the year I get…
Having no expectations or knowing little about the movie you're going to see might not seem advantageous, but sometimes it can stop you from avoiding movies you will enjoy. Tennis…
It's rare to see one reboot in the Best Picture race, let alone two. Or four. For a cherry on top, one of these is a sci-fi flick. For this…
They say don't judge a book by its cover, but I maybe should have in the case of Licorice Pizza. Does anyone else have directors or actors where the majority…
It might seem like an unlikely coupling of movies or a joke from Lewis Carrol with no punchline - Why is Nightmare Alley like Don't Look Up? But the Oscar…
Just the other night during movie club, the question "what movie surprised you" was posed. At the time, we weren't talking specifically about Oscar-nominated movies. Still, two in the Oscar…
I don't need to tell any of you that we've waited a long time for Black Widow's origin story. And of all the things laid at COVID-19's feet, the wait…
Of all of the Disney+ shows they announced, Loki was the one I was looking forward to the most. For being a trickster character, I felt I knew where they…
WandaVision. The show we didn't know we needed. I had no idea what to expect when the trailer debuted. For once, a trailer played it close to the vest rather…
Ten minutes. That's how long Wonder Woman 1984 had been running before I knew the next morning my newsfeed was going to be littered with headlines like "WW84: Huge Disappointment",…
From the first time I saw the trailer, which seems like a year and a half ago now, I was both confused and interested in this new adaptation of Emma,…