Countdown to the Oscars: Final Predictions

The 90th Academy Awards are this Sunday, and I can’t remember a year in which the awards were harder to predict. But with the Golden Globes, Critic’s Choice, BAFTAs, and various guild awards now behind us, a pattern has emerged giving us more of a concrete idea of who will take home an Oscar. Still, […]

Predicting the 2018 Oscar Nominees and Winners

That time is already upon us. With the SAG, Golden Globes, and Critics Choice Awards already behind us, now is the time to look ahead to the Oscars. The 90th Academy Awards will take place on March 4, but the nominees will be announced tomorrow morning. For most of this awards season there really hasn’t […]

Review: “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”

4.5 out of 5 stars. There’s a lot in American culture that people don’t talk about; much of that has changed over the last year or so, but police brutality and rape culture are divisive issues all the same. It has taken an English writer and director, Martin McDonagh (“In Bruges,” “Seven Psychopaths”) to bring […]