I have started watching Rome because I’m studying Roman history. The show’s pretty good but God… Polly Walker is absolutely awful in this. Yikes.

Edit : The actresses playing Cleopatra and Octavia are as bad if not worse. The only good actress in this show for now is the one playing Servilia but I really don’t like her character though.

Jojo Rabbit’s humor made me physically uncomfortable.

Bacurau is one of the worst films I’ve ever seen in my life.

1. Rachel Weisz, The Favourite

2. Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread

3. Emma Stone, The Favourite

4. Michelle Williams, Manchester by the sea

5. Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine

MALE

Daniel Day-Lewis – There will be blood

Antonio Banderas – Pain and Glory

Joaquin Phoenix – Her

FEMALE

Adèle Exarchopoulos – Blue is the Warmest Color

Kirsten Dunst – Melancholia

Ellen Burstyn – Requiem for a Dream

unranked

All about Eve

Autumn Sonata

Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

The Deer Hunter

Apocalypse Now

Scenes from a Marriage

Paths of Glory

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

The Piano

The Secret of the Grain

Games of Love and Chance

Mektoub My Love : Canto Uno

Ida

Mustang

Persepolis

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless…[Read more]

I wish Stone hadn’t won for La La Land… She would have then probably been campaigned and nominated as a lead for The Favourite. She may have even won and what a glorious win it would have been 😭

Stone and Weisz is the superior pair, absolutely flawless performances. But out of those in the poll, I’d say Barraza/Kikuchi take this.

The Leftovers says hello.

No disrespect to Peele and Gerwig but they have only directed 2 films yet… That’s not enough to judge their talent as directors, I’m sorry. I don’t understand what they are doing in this list.

Abdellatif Kechiche is one of the best directors in the entire world.

Babel is not good and the performances were overrated.

In no particular order :

Bette Davis – All About Eve

Adèle Exarchopoulos – Blue is the Warmest Color

Jim Carrey – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Robert de Niro – The Deer Hunter

Liv Ullmann – Scenes from a Marriage

Peyman Maadi – A Separation

Ingrid Bergman – Autumn Sonata

Kirsten Dunst – Melancholia

Daniel Day-Lewis – In the Name…[Read more]

I have to agree, Nate and the plotline involving him and Jules is… mishandled at best. However, every other character feel so real. Their struggles are what some of my friends went or are going through. They just feel so real while Sex Education’s characters are just edgy clichés to me.

I don’t get the hype around Andrea Arnold. Fish Tank and American Honey were both VERY underwhelming.

I haven’t seen a lot of Ghibli films but my ranking would be this one out of those I did watch :

1. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

2. Spirited Away

3. My Neighbor Totoro

4. Princess Mononoke

5. Kiki’s Delivery Service

Sorry if I sound dumb but what does bump means in that context ? (english isn’t my first language)

Euphoria by far. It’s visually stunning, the characters are way stronger and more relatable than Sex Education’s. I do agree that the writing of the overall story can be quite iffy sometimes and I’m waiting to see if Season 2 improves that.

Sex Education is funnier though but it’s also a lot more cringeworthy. I enjoyed Season 1 but Season…[Read more]

I really enjoyed this episode and I was happy to learn more about Jill. Her conversation with Schlafly is one of my favorite scene of the series so far.

Why ?

I kinda feel like saying Wood is the best actress on Westworld is an unpopular opinion though. All the raves seem to go to Thandie Newton. They are both great but there’s something to Wood’s interpretation that fascinates me.

It was a really strong year, I can’t pick a winner between Foy, Moss, Russel and Wood.

The fact she’s never been no…[Read more]