98TH ACADEMY AWARDS PICKS

Picture - ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Director - Paul Thomas Anderson (ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER)
Actor - Timothee Chalamet (MARTY SUPREME)
Actress - Jessie Buckley (HAMNET)
Supporting Actor - Sean Penn (ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER)
Supporting Actress - Amy Madigan (WEAPONS)
Original Screenplay - Ryan Coogler (SINNERS)
Adapted Screenplay - Paul Thomas Anderson (ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER)
Animated Feature - KPOP DEMON HUNTERS
Original Score - Jonny Greenwood (ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER)
Original Song - I Lied to You (SINNERS)
Sound - SINNERS
Casting - MARTY SUPREME
Production Design - MARTY SUPREME
Cinematography - Autumn Durald Arkapaw (SINNERS)
Makeup and Hairstyling - FRANKENSTEIN
Costume Design - HAMNET
Editing - MARTY SUPREME
Visual Effects - AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH

96TH ACADEMY AWARDS PICKS

Note: Missing categories means I haven't seen any of the films listed in them.

Picture - Oppenheimer

Director - Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer)

Actor - Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer)

Actress - Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon)

Supporting Actor - Robert Downey Jr. (Oppenheimer)

Supporting Actress - America Ferrera (Barbie)

Adapted Screenplay - Tony McNamara (Poor Things)

International Feature - The Zone of Interest

Score - Robbie Robertson (Killers of the Flower Moon)

Song - I'm Just Ken (Barbie)

Sound - The Zone of Interest

Production Design - Killers of the Flower Moon

Cinematography - Hoyte van Hoytema (Oppenheimer)

Makeup and Hairstyling - Poor Things

Costume Design - Poor Things

Editing - Jennifer Lame (Oppenheimer)

Visual Effects - The Creator

THEY'VE GOT MY VOTE :: 92ND ACADEMY AWARDS

Reminder: These choices are who I want to win, not who I think will win.


Best Visual Effects - THE IRISHMAN

Best Editing - THE IRISHMAN

Best Costume Design - ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD

Best Makeup & Hairstyling - 1917

Best Cinematography - 1917

Best Production Design - 1917

Best Sound Mixing - AD ASTRA

Best Sound Editing - 1917

Best Original Score - 1917

Best International Feature Film - PARASITE

Best Adapted Screenplay - THE IRISHMAN

Best Original Screenplay - KNIVES OUT

Best Supporting Actress - Laura Dern (MARRIAGE STORY)

Best Supporting Actor - Joe Pesci (THE IRISHMAN)

Best Actress - Scarlett Johansson (MARRIAGE STORY)

Best Actor - Leonardo DiCaprio (ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD)

Best Director - Sam Mendes (1917)

Best Picture - PARASITE

THEY'VE GOT MAH VOTE :: 90TH ACADEMY AWARDS

Reminder: Any omitted categories are due to me not having seen any or enough films to make a good call. Also, these choices are who I want to win, not who I think will win.

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Visual Effects - BLADE RUNNER 2049

Film Editing - BABY DRIVER

Cinematography - Roger Deakins (BLADE RUNNER 2049)

Production Design - BLADE RUNNER 2049

Sound Mixing - BABY DRIVER

Sound Editing - BABY DRIVER

Original Score - Alexander Desplat (THE SHAPE OF WATER)

Documentary Feature - ABACUS: SMALL ENOUGH TO JAIL

Adapted Screenplay - THE DISASTER ARTIST

Original Screenplay - THE SHAPE OF WATER

Supporting Actress - Laurie Metcalf (LADY BIRD)

Supporting Actor - Christopher Plummer (ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD)

Actress - Sally Hawkins (THE SHAPE OF WATER)

Director - Guillermo del Toro (THE SHAPE OF WATER)

Picture - GET OUT

THEY'VE GOT MAH VOTE :: 89TH ACADEMY AWARDS

Reminder: Some categories are omitted because I either haven't seen any films listed or not enough to make a reasonable call for.


Visual Effects - ROGUE ONE

Editing - Joe Walker (ARRIVAL)

Costume Design - LA LA LAND

Make-up and Hairstyling - STAR TREK BEYOND

Cinematography - Bradford Young (ARRIVAL)

Production Design - HAIL, CAESAR!

Sound Mixing - LA LA LAND

Sound Editing - LA LA LAND

Original Song - City of Stars (LA LA LAND)

Original Score - Mica Levi (JACKIE)

Documentary Feature - OJ: MADE IN AMERICA

Adapted Screenplay - Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney (MOONLIGHT)

Supporting Actress - Naomi Harris (MOONLIGHT)

Supporting Actor - Mahershala Ali (MOONLIGHT)

Actress - Isabelle Huppert (ELLE)

Director - Damien Chazelle (LA LA LAND)

Picture - LA LA LAND

THEY'VE GOT MAH VOTE :: 88TH ACADEMY AWARDS

Some categories are missing because I have not seen all or not enough films nominated to make my own call.

Best Visual Effects - MAD MAX FURY ROAD

Best Film Editing - Margaret Sixel (MAD MAX FURY ROAD)

Best Costume Design - MAD MAX FURY ROAD

Best Makeup and Hairstyling - MAD MAX FURY ROAD

Best Cinematography - Roger Deakins (SICARIO)

Best Production Design - MAD MAX FURY ROAD

Best Sound Mixing - MAD MAX FURY ROAD

Best Sound Editing - MAD MAX FURY ROAD

Best Original Score - Johann Johannson (SICARIO)

Best Animated Feature Film - INSIDE OUT

Best Adapted Screenplay - THE MARTIAN

Best Original Screenplay - INSIDE OUT

Best Actor - Leonardo DiCaprio (THE REVENANT)

Best Director - George Miller (MAD MAX FURY ROAD)

Best Picture - MAD MAX FURY ROAD

TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH...

Paranormal Activity 3 is the best of the series

CinemaSins is damaging online criticism

I just don't get Blade Runner

The Dark Knight Rises is still better than Batman Begins

Prometheus > Alien

Coldplay is just dandy

Leave Paul Haggis' Crash alone

Confused Matthew should just shut the fuck up

The Informer is John Ford's best film

The Funny Games remake must be defended

Slumdog Millionaire deserved its Oscars

Ocean's Twelve is better than its predecessor

Inception isn't trash

The Village is M. Night Shyamalan's best film

RedLetterMedia is losing me because of Boyhood

TOP 10 DISAPPOINTMENTS OF THE 2010s (SO FAR)

Fuck off!

THEY'VE GOT MAH VOTE :: 87TH ACADEMY AWARDS

This list only contains categories of films that I have seen. Also I purposefully neglected to leave out the Best Supporting Actor category because I'm certain I would choose J.K. Simmons but I have not seen Whiplash yet. So whatever...

Best Visual Effects - Interstellar

Best Editing - Sandra Adair (Boyhood)

Best Costume Design - Mark Bridges (Inherent Vice)

Best Makeup & Hairstyling - The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Cinematography - Emmanuel Lubezki (Birdman)

Best Production Design - The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Sound Mixing - Interstellar

Best Sound Editing - Interstellar

Best Original Song - 'Everything is Awesome' (The Lego Movie)

Best Original Score - Hans Zimmer (Interstellar)

Best Original Screenplay - Birdman

Best Adapted Screenplay - Inherent Vice

Best Supporting Actress - Patricia Arquette (Boyhood)

Best Actress - Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl)

Best Actor - Michael Keaton (Birdman)

Best Director - Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman)

Best Picture - Boyhood

FIRST TIMERS :: JANUARY 2015

3rd

Boyhood [Film]

7th

Slacker [Film]

8th

Birdman [Film]

9th

Star Wars Rebels S01E09 [TV]

13th

The Eric Andre Show S03E08 [TV]

16th

Magic in the Moonlight [Film]

19th

The Eric Andre Show S03E09 [TV]
Miami Vice S01E01 [TV]
Miami Vice S01E02 [TV]
Orange Is The New Black S01E01 [TV]
Frank [Film]

20th

Star Wars Rebels S01E10 [TV]

26th

The Eric Andre Show S03E10 [TV]

30th

The French Connection [Film]

FIRST TIMERS :: DECEMBER 2014

1st

The Double Life Of Véronique [Film]

2nd

F for Fake [Film]
City of the Living Dead [Film]

6th

CSS - Planta [Album]

7th

The Eric Andre Show S03E05 [TV]

15th

The Eric Andre Show S03E06 [TV]

17th

Blood Meridian [Novel]

18th

The Man in the High Castle [Novel]

22nd

The Eric Andre Show S03E07 [TV]

23rd

Tusk [Film]

25th

Greed [Film]

29th

Charlie's Country [Film]

31st

Pink Floyd - The Endless River [Album]

FIRST TIMERS :: NOVEMBER 2014

1st

Pearl Jam - No Code [Album]
Pearl Jam - Yield [Album]
AFX - Analogue Bubblebath Vol. 3 [EP]

2nd

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 [Album]

3rd

U2 - Songs of Innocence [Album]
Aphex Twin - Syro [Album]

4th

Star Wars Rebels S01E05 [TV]

6th

The Eric Andre Show S01E01 [TV]

7th

The Deadly Syndrome - The Ortolan [Album]
The Eric Andre Show S01E02 [TV]
Maps to the Stars [Film]
The Eric Andre Show S01E03 [TV]
The Eric Andre Show S01E04 [TV]
Altman [Film]
Interstellar [Film]

8th

The Eric Andre Show S01E05 [TV]
The Eric Andre Show S01E06 [TV]
The Eric Andre Show S01E07 [TV]
The Eric Andre Show S01E08 [TV]
The Eric Andre Show S01E09 [TV]
The Eric Andre Show S01E10 [TV]
The Eric Andre Show Season 2 [TV]
The Eric Andre Show S03E01 [TV]

9th

22 Jump Street [Film]
Queen - Hot Space [Album]

10th

Neighbors [Film]
The Innocents [Film]

11th

Edge of Tomorrow [Film]

12th

Star Wars Rebels S01E06 [TV]

13th

A Certain Magical Index S01E01 [TV]
Fairy Tail S01E01 [TV]

16th

The Eric Andre Show S03E02 [TV]
Countdown [Film]
That Cold Day In the Park [Film]

17th

Brewster McCloud [Film]
Images [Film]

19th

Thieves Like Us [Film]

25th

The Eric Andre Show S03E03 [TV]
Star Wars Rebels S01E07

26th

Star Wars Rebels S01E08 [TV]
California Split [Film]

30th

Nightcrawler [Film]
The Eric Andre Show S03E04 [TV]

FIRST TIMERS :: OCTOBER 2014

1st

Captain America: The Winter Soldier [Film]

2nd

Gone Girl [Film]

7th

The Knick S01E08 [TV]

8th

Star Wars Rebels S01E01 [TV]
The National - Cherry Tree [EP]
Star Wars Rebels S01E02 [TV]

9th

The National - Trouble Will Find Me [Album]
World's Greatest Dad [Film]
The National - Mistaken For Strangers [EP]

10th

The National - High Violet [Album]

12th

The Knick S01E09 [TV]

14th

The Wire S01E01 [TV]

15th

The Wire S01E02 [TV]
The Wire S01E03 [TV]

17th

The Dream [Short Film]
The Shipyard [Short Film]
The Moment [Short Film]
November 22 1963 [Short Film]
Survivors [Short Film]

18th

El Wingador [Short Film]
The Knick S01E10 [TV]
Star Wars Rebels S01E03 [TV]

24th

Stretch [Film]

28th

Star Wars Rebels S01E04 [TV]

29th

Pontypool [Film]

FIRST TIMERS :: SEPTEMBER 2014

9th

The Knick S01E01 [TV]
Rick & Morty S01E01 [TV]
The Knick S01E02 [TV]

10th

The Knick S01E03 [TV]
The Knick S01E04 [TV]

12th

Rick & Morty S01E02 [TV]
Rick & Morty S01E03 [TV]

13th

Rick & Morty S01E04 [TV]
Rick & Morty S01E05 [TV]
The Knick S01E05 [TV]

15th

Red Dead Redemption [Game]

21st

The Knick S01E06 [TV]

27th

The Knick S01E07 [TV]

30th

Thor: The Dark World [Film]
Thom Yorke - Tomorrow's Modern Boxes [Album]

FIRST TIMERS :: AUGUST 2014

2nd

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes [Film]

6th

Neil Cicierega - Mouth Sounds [Album]

7th

Neil Cicierega - Mouth Silence [Album]

11th

The Fog of War [Film]

14th

Standard Operating Procedure [Film]

15th

Fast, Cheap & Out of Control [Film]

16th

Mr Death [Film]

21st

Gustavo Santaolalla - Ronroco [Album]

FIRST TIMERS :: JULY 2014

1st

Next Floor [Short Film]

2nd

James - Millionaires [Album]
Led Zeppelin - untitled [Album]

3rd

N/A

4th

The Lego Movie [Film]
Life Itself [Film]

5th

N/A

6th

Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral [Album]
Greg Sestero & Tom Bissell - The Disaster Artist [Novel]

7th

N/A

8th

N/A

9th

Rise of the Planet of the Apes [Film]

10th

N/A

11th

The Chemical Brothers - Further [Album]
Snowpiercer [Film]

12th

N/A

13th

Hoop Dreams [Film]
Gates of Heaven [Film]

14th

The Raid 2 [Film]

15th

The Thin Blue Line [Film]
A Brief History of Time [Film]
Tabloid [Film]
The Strain S01E01 - Night Zero [TV]

16th

Compliance [Film]
Vernon, Florida [Film]
David Byrne & Brian Eno - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts [Album]
Throne of Blood [Film]

17th

N/A

18th

N/A

19th

The Unknown Known [Film]

20th

Brick [Film]

21st

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico [Album]
Stop Making Sense [Film]

22nd

N/A

23rd

Pet Shop Boys - Please [Album]

24th

N/A

25th

Talking Heads - Talking Heads: 77 [Album]

26th

Talking Heads - Remain in Light [Album]
The Smashing Pumpkins - Gish [Album]

27th

N/A

28th

N/A

29th

David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World [Album]

30th

David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars [Album]
Ace In the Hole [Film]
Tegan & Sara - Heartthrob [Album]
Breaking the Waves [Film]

31st

A Hard Day's Night [Film]

I LOVE THIS SHIT! :: VIDYO GAHMES

Banjo-Kazooie

Batman: Arkham Asylum

Bioshock

Bioshock Infinite

Braid

Conker's Bad Fur Day

Killer 7

L.A. Noire

Limbo

Metal Gear Solid

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker

Myst

Poker Night at the Inventory

Poker Night 2

Policenauts

Portal 2

Riven

Shadow of the Colossus

Silent Hill 2

Snatcher

Spec Ops: The Line

Super Mario Bros.

Super Mario Bros. 3

Tetris

The X Files Game

DOUBLE THE BILL (A Response to Luke)

Pain & Gain / Spring Breakers

Short Cuts / Magnolia

Videodrome / eXistenZ

Schizopolis / Lost Highway

The New World / Avatar

Psycho / Funny Games

The Girlfriend Experience / Magic Mike

Psycho '98 / Funny Games U.S.

The Matrix Reloaded / The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Sunset Boulevard / Mulholland Drive

The Night of the Hunter / Undertow

The Informant! / Side Effects

Raising Cain / Stoker

Mission to Mars / Prometheus

2013, The Year of Sleaze :: The Show So Far

After the huge rush of quality films last year, this has been a comparatively sloggish one to put it mildly. Of the following, here is a quick recap of every (U.S. release official) 2013 film I've seen so far as of 18th August.

Side Effects
The Informant!'s serious, sexy alternate. The cinemas will miss you Soderbergh.

To the Wonder
Mleh...

Stoker
I've never seen any of them Giallo films but from what I've read, this was a damn fine cup of blood.

Oz the Great & Powerful
Yeah I think it's brilliant, ya got a problem wid dat? (does futterwacken)

Spring Breakers
This movie is so good it makes you like Skrillix and Britney Spears music.

Trance
I'm a sucker for this kind of music score and soundtrack set on top of these kinds of stories, which Danny Boyle has always been great at.

Oblivion
We may have reached the point where it's getting harder to create a genuinely original sci-fi film without guessing what tropes will fall into play, but at least you can have the chance to do it well which I feel this did.

Pain & Gain
Never in my life would I consider calling a Michael Bay film not just one of the year's best but one of my all time favourites.

The Great Gatsby
Good. Certainly more tolerable than Australia, I can surely say.

Only God Forgives
To those who hate it, I can't argue with your points.

After Earth
Well... I spose after you make The Last Airbender, all you can go is up...

World War Z
I'm very nonchalant with this one. Yep, it exists. Moving on...

Pacific Rim
A giant robot hits a sea monster with a battleship. All arguments past, present and future are invalid.

V/H/S/2
Wrap-around was uninteresting, Clinical Trials had a potential story but not much payoff, Ride in the Park was hilarious and surprisingly moving, Safe Haven was FUCKMETHATWASSCARYDIDYOUGUYSSEETHAT!!!! and Slumber Party Alien Abduction was nihilistic as fuck.

The Conjuring
Now who says you can't make effectively chilling horror movies anymore?

The World's End
Woopsie daisy!

Passion
Classic De Palma, welcome back and all that.

Prince Avalanche
This is not a retreat, it's a step forward.

FUCK THAT NOISE!

A lot of my friends on Facebook (especially Jacob) have often chided me for liking every single film.

Now I have better things to do than to constantly rag on a film's merit of low worth like people who make videos on blip that compares a work of fiction to military dictators, yet I cannot deny that some films tend to rub me the wrong way.

Don't let the above asinine title fool you, this is not a hate list. I don't hate any movie. These films are based on more of a disappointment level and how I can't say that I actually 'LIKE' them.

So, as usual, in no particular order:

The Golden Compass

No surprise to those who know me. This is more of a special mention since I still have not seen the whole film and marks the first time I've ever walked out of a movie feeling pissed.

My Super Ex-Girlfriend

All's well that ends well? No...

Premonition

Well that ending came out of nowhere...

Astro Boy

So did this...

King Ralph

Hey guys! Let's start our comedy with the pointless killing of multiple people!

Date Movie

Must I explain?

Paranormal Activity 4

Liked 1, 2 was ok, LOVED 3. This was balls.

Killing Them Softly

People tend to consider Prometheus and The Dark Knight Rises as the biggest disappointments of 2012. I never understood that. I was more disappointed with this.

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

To paraphrase an video game critic, if you find us Australians offensive, you'll find this movie offensively Australian.

Bad Boys

I always lose it when it gets to the scene where Martin must... BECOME WILL!