This awards season has given a pretty firm indicator as to who will take the big prize, albite a few categories. To date, Everything Everywhere All At Once has taken the DGA, the PGA, the WGA, and SAG Awards. If it takes best picture (and our 2023 Oscar predictions say it will), it’ll be among…
What’s the easiest way to make a buck? To cash in on people’s nostalgia of course. The live music industry was decimated from 2020 to 2021. So much so that, when festivals made their return this year, if it seemed like prices were multiplied 1.5 times, well, it’s because they were. The live music industry…
Note: This article contains donkey spoilers In 2015, the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published an article on why humans are fascinated with what they called “animal films,” or, films focusing on animals as their subjects rather than humans. It came to the conclusion that the phenomenon was attributed to the fact that, for the…
Every generation has that one show. You have your Breaking Bad‘s, your Hill Street Blues‘, your I Love Lucy‘s… but every generation has that one show that operates on a different level. That’s not to say if it’s good or bad, but it definitely can’t be compared to anything. If you haven’t been under a…
For the first time ever, we’re flummoxed. Usually we know by now how these things go down. But for the first time since we’ve started Oscar predictions, we’re at a loss as to who the frontrunner is this awards season. This year has been an anomaly to say the least, more so than even last…
The Oscar nominees revealed just three weeks ago point in a direction where the Academy hasn’t really gone before. The films nominated aren’t necessarily box office darlings (not even Dune made it into the green stateside), nor are they franchises or revives (save for West Side Story). Rather, this year’s nominees revolve around subtlety to…
2021 had no shortage of musical events – another Kanye/Drake face-off, a new Adele record, and an ABBA reunion to boot. We even saw the return of live music, something we seemed to lose sleep over if we’d never heard the likes of again. And like the film world, music is forever evolving, which the…