1 Madonna: Express Yourself
2 Kate Bush: Cloudbusting
3 Nirvana: Heart-Shaped Box
4 Eagle Eye Cherry: Save Tonight
5 Green Day: Basket Case

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This Is America.

Your top five music videos of all time?

Yay!

Ps. Jessica Chastain (George & Tammy), Michelle Yeoh (Crazy Rich Asians) and Julia Roberts (Ben Is Back) should probably be added in Best Actress.

Yes, but there are several people who I would agree are the greatest singer of all time.

Who would you say is the greatest singer of all time and why?

1 Respect
2 Think
3 I Say a Little Prayer
4 (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
5 Do Right Woman, Do Right Man
6 Chain of Fools
7 Spanish Harlem
8 I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)
9 Rock Steady
10 Angel

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1 Frozen
2 Like a Prayer
3 Vogue
4 Hung Up
5 Live to Tell
6 Ray of Light
7 Open Your Heart
8 Secret
9 Rain
10 Don’t Tell Me

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Duck Tales the Movie.

In honour of Madonna’s 60th birthday: what is your all-time favourite Madonna image/persona and why?

1 BlacKkKlansman
2 Love, Simon
3 Black Panther

Your top three acting performances in a movie in 2018 thus far?

I love him in BlacKkKlansman – he’s funny, subtly sly and almost achingly swag – but the role isn’t Oscary at all. I hope to be proven wrong, he would deserve the recognition.

There will still be four other nominees and Davis is almost certainly one of them.

I’m afraid Riley, Stanfield, Diggs, Wright, and Washington are pipe dreams, and Coogler, Boseman and Jordan are very unlikely.

That said, there’s a good chance of the Best Director lineup consisting of almost or entirely people who aren’t white cis men. Personally, I’m predicting only Damien Chazelle to represent that demographic in the category,…[Read more]

Agreed, JB. Best of the year so far by a considerable margin. It just fires on all cylinders.

The point of the Oscars is to run forever and celebrate craftspersonship, so I couldn’t be more unhappy with the decision to not air some of the below-the-line categories.

Best Popular Feature is an unnecessary and blatantly populist addition for multiple reasons already stated on this forum.

I can only hope neither will be repeated next…[Read more]

Updated with BlacKkKlansman. As always, the current winner is the first one listed.

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BlacKkKlansman
Love, Simon
Black Panther
Hereditary
A Quiet Place
Tully
Alex Strangelove
Disobedience
Isle of Dogs
The Party

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Spike Lee, BlacKkKlansman
Ryan Coogler, Black Panther
Ari Aster, Hereditary
John Krasinski, A Quiet Place
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I think the only question mark is: will the movie be well-received enough to give Close the wings she needs? Yes, it has 95 % on RT, but upon closer (no pun intended) inspection, the notices are respectful rather than rapturous, all showering Close in praise but considering the film itself a rather conventional affair.

It doesn’t seem to be the…[Read more]

Titus Burgess.

Which Sex and the City character who isn’t Carrie would deserve their own spinoff and why?

Ava DuVernay
Dee Rees
Sofia Coppola
Jordan Peele
Quentin Tarantino

…all of them in Directing.

Most overdue: Tarantino.

What’s the worst movie you have ever seen and why?

1 Alfred Hitchcock
2 Quentin Tarantino
3 Billy Wilder
4 Pedro Almodovar
5 Martin Scorsese

Whose performance in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood are you most eagerly looking forward to and why?

Love Simon, Black Panther, Tully, Hereditary, A Quiet Place.

Each one is daring, forward-looking and unconventional in its own way, and each one successfully combines social commentary with cinematic skill and ambition.

Your top five silver screen thespians of all time?

“Unbloody unloneliness”
(real: “Under neon loneliness”)
– Manic Street Preachers: Motorcycle Emptiness

“I’ve got this feeling inside my balls”
(real: “I’ve got this feeling inside my bones”)
– Justin Timberlake: Can’t Stop the Feeling

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