The Quiet Man
The Graduate
Saving Private Ryan

(I don’t particularly enjoy “The Grapes of Wrath” but I am surprised no one has chosen it thus far.)

1928 – 7th Heaven
1929 – Broadway Melody
1930 – All Quiet on the Western Front
1931 – The Front Page
1932 – Grand Hotel
1933 – 42nd Street
1934 – It Happened One Night
1935 – Top Hat
1936 – Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1937 – A Star Is Born
1938 – Grand Illusion
1939 – The Wizard of Oz
1940 – The Grapes of Wrath
1941 – Citizen Kane
1942 – Yankee Dood…[Read more]

Juliet, Naked B

Sam Mendes would also be a theatre director who made the leap to film. He even directed the hell out of a James Bond film filled with elaborate action set pieces.

I hated best picture, best original screenplay and best editing, but as best picture is the win that will be most remembered, I gave it my vote.

Best Picture:
Moonlight

Best Director:
Damian Chazelle – La La Land

Best Actor:
Casey Affleck – Manchester by the Sea

Best Actress:
Olivia Colman – The Favourite

Best Supporting Actor:
J. K. Simmons – Whiplash

Best Supporting Actress:
Patricia Arquette – Boyhood

Best Original Screenplay:
Spotlight

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Call Me by Your N…[Read more]

My predictions for tomorrow:

Picture: The Favourite
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Actor: Bradley Cooper
Actress: Olivia Colman
Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali
Supporting Actress: Rachel Weisz
Original Screenplay: The Favourite
Adapted Screenplay: BlacKkKlansman
Ensemble: The Favourite
Breakthrough: Elsie Fisher
Animated: Into the…[Read more]

“Wall-E”- It was my choice as best picture of its year and certainly could have replaced “The Reader” or “Frost/Nixon”.

“The Iron Giant” and “Toy Story II”- 1999 was a terrible year for best picture nominees so these could have replaced almost any of them.

“Toy Story”- Again better than most of the 1995 best picture nominees and especially the…[Read more]

Cold War A
The Girl in the Spider’s Web D-

RBG B

Night School D-
On the Basis of Sex B-

Free Solo B+
The Oath B

I wonder how many people were able to see it. I wanted to see it and in Phoenix, AZ we actually have multiple options for viewing indie films, but it never played at any of them to my knowledge.

American Animals B

Aquaman B-
Bumblebee C+
Stan and Ollie C

1) A Star Is Born
2) Black Panther
3) The Favourite
4) Roma
5) BlacKkKlansman
6) Green Book
7) Vice
8) Bohemian Rhapsody

1) The Social Network
2) The Grand Budapest Hotel
3) Call Me By Your Name
4) Her
5) La La Land
6) Moonlight
7) The Artist
8) The Kids Are All Right
9) Gravity
10) A Star Is Born

Runners-Up: Whiplash, Phantom Thread, Moneyball, The Shape of Water

I don’t know if it is worth the effort but could you change my grade for “First Man” from B- to B? I mistook it for “Early Man”.

Adrift B-
Book Club D+
The Christmas Chronicles C+
The Guernsey Literary and Potatoe Peel Pie Society B-
Life of the Party C
Overlord B+
Peppermint D-
Red Sparrow C
The Spy Who Dumped Me C+
Tag C+
Upgrade B

Leave No Trace B
Sierra Burgess Is a Loser C