We Oscarwatchers put a lot of faith in the gatekeepers — those bloggers and critics who see movies first, review them, assess their merits, and assign them into meaningful categories. The public at large have, for the most part, discarded critical consensus when it comes to seeing movies they want to...
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This was posted on Facebook from a group called Memories are Made of This. There are good Oscar Best Picture winners, bad Oscar Best Picture winners and most of the winners that are somewhere in between. But I’m fairly sure the Sound of Music was deserving for its top prize and for my money Julie Andrews was the reason why. You do have to sit through Climb...
The shades of US presidents, real and imagined, have always weaved in and out of Hollywood films. This year, Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln might be the best film ever about a US president, and Argo depicts one of President Carter’s hidden secrets that might have rescued his presidency for a second term. And then there is Zero Dark Thirty about the raid on Bin...