Monday, April 21, 2025

2026 Oscar Prediction: Why Movies Suck Now and Can We Help Make them Better?

My friend Landon sent me a link to a story in Indiewire about what Harmony Korine thinks about the state of movies. Readers of this site already know what I think because they know the truths I've been telling going on five years now about the disaster that loomed ahead like an iceberg no one can see in the glassy water. I've also said the ship is made of...

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Supporting Actor Watch: Shia LaBoeuf in David Mamet’s Henry Johnson

David Mamet has turned his play, Henry Johnson, into a feature film starring Shia LaBeouf. It is under embargo at the moment, so mums the word but check out the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5u0INUpDBU Because Hollywood is a climate of fear ruled by hysteria, this movie won't be getting any kind of a wide release. There won't be many chances to see it -- and you all still somehow see yourselves...

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Best Picture Watch: The Roses Drops a Trailer

There is nothing funnier than watching Olivia Colman snap on film. She is brilliant when it comes to playing a woman losing her shit. That's only part of the reason I'm looking forward to The Roses. It also looks funny. We could use funny, couldn't we? Here is the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkgMaS5gbaA The jokes land and now we know how far it goes - all the way to a gun...

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Ari Aster’s Eddington Drops a Teaser

A24 dropped a teaser for Ari Aster's Eddington. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AlrAIL8S74 There is a great movie to be made about the year 2020 and everything that happened that year. But I do not trust Hollywood to tell that story, at least not now. I can only hope Ari Aster is slightly more wise than that. The synopsis sounds promising: A couple, Lindsay and Marc, are driving through New Mexico on their...

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