Last week, I participated in the hot new game sweeping awards season enthusiasts everywhere, Fantasy Filmball! It is my third year playing the game, which is a mix between fantasy football and awards season predicting. How did my draft go? How do I feel about my team? Let’s recap!
RRR is a Bollywood action-thriller from legendary Telugu filmmaker S.S. Rajamouli. It tells a fictional story about two real-life Indian legends from the colonial era: Bheem, a tribal leader seeking to rescue his kidnapped sister from British captors, and Raju, a soldier working undercover against the British regime. The film debuted in theaters in early 2022 ahead of its Netflix streaming release, where it has found a willing global audience. Why is this the Bollywood film to transcend culture and find success in the Western world?
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Indie film distributor A24 recently turned a decade old this past week, and they’ve already made an indelible mark on cinematic history in their short time in existence. What are my ten favorite films from the studio?
Welcome to my first official Oscar Power Rankings of the 2022-2023 awards season! The fall film fests have announced their lineups, and starting next month we’ll have our first indications of which films will be in the running for major awards next year. Let’s take a snapshot of the race as of today and begin tracking films as they rise/fall in the rankings for a Best Picture nomination (or a win)!
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Thirteen Lives (2022) is a biographical action-drama film from director Ron Howard. It tells the story of the 2018 Thailand cave rescue, in which a group of British divers attempted to extract a youth boys’ soccer team and their coach from a submerged cave system. The film released theatrically in late July ahead of its streaming release on Amazon Prime Video on August 5. Can this compelling story get Ron Howard back in the Oscar conversation?
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