Dir: Shaka King Nominated for: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Original Song. Score: ★★★★☆ Following the murders of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, Shaka King's Judas and the Black Messiah takes us back to the tumultuous period of the late 60s when the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover... Continue Reading →
Oscar Nominations 2021 – FILM REVIEW: Promising Young Woman (2020)
Dir: Emerald Fennell Nominated for: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actress, Best Film Editing. Score: ★☆☆☆☆ The directorial debut of Emerald Fennel, who most will know as the actress who plays Camilla Parker Bowles on Netflix's The Crown, and potentially as the show runner for season two of Killing Eve, stars Carey Mulligan... Continue Reading →
Oscar Nominations 2021 – FILM REVIEW: Mank (2020)
Dir: David Fincher Nominated for: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Score, Best Sound, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling. Score: ★★★★☆ Citizen Kane has long been considered the measuring stick by which other cinema has been judged. A miraculous product of an unconstrained (by... Continue Reading →
Oscar Nominations 2021 – FILM REVIEW: Minari (2020)
Dir: Lee Isaac Chung Nominated for: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Score Score: ★★★☆☆ Lee Isaac Chung's Minari is a semi-autobiographical tale about a Korean-American family attempting the tricky task of settling into 1980's rural Arkansas. Featuring a handsome set of performances from the entire cast... Continue Reading →
Oscar Nominations 2020 – FILM REVIEW: The Irishman (2019)
Dir: Martin Scorsese Nominated for: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Production Design, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Visual Effects. Score: ★★★★★ Based on Charles Brandt's book I Heard You Paint Houses, The Irishman is the story of Frank Sheeran a World War II veteran who... Continue Reading →