Scott’s desire to tell people what movies to watch knows no bounds. He’s decided to create a series on here devoted to profiling directors and creating guides to their films. This week’s director is… Ernst Lubitsch. Highly recommended: Trouble in … Continue reading Director Profile: Ernst Lubitsch
Scott’s desire to tell people what movies to watch knows no bounds. He’s decided to create a series on here devoted to profiling directors and creating guides to their films. This week’s director is… Steven Spielberg. Highly recommended: Duel, Jaws … Continue reading Director Profile: Steven Spielberg
Scott’s desire to tell people what movies to watch knows no bounds. He’s decided to create a series on here devoted to profiling directors and creating guides to their films. This week’s director is… Robert Altman. Highly recommended: M*A*S*H, McCabe … Continue reading Director Profile: Robert Altman
Scott’s desire to tell people what movies to watch knows no bounds. He’s decided to create a series on here devoted to profiling directors and creating guides to their films. This week’s director is… Alfred Hitchcock. Highly recommended: The 39 … Continue reading Director Profile: Alfred Hitchcock
Scott’s desire to tell people what movies to watch knows no bounds. He’s decided to create a series on here devoted to profiling directors and creating guides to their films. This week’s director is… Vincente Minnelli. Highly recommended: Meet Me in … Continue reading Director Profile: Vincente Minnelli
Scott’s desire to tell people what movies to watch knows no bounds. He’s decided to create a series on here devoted to profiling directors and creating guides to their films. This week’s director is… David Cronenberg. Highly recommended: Scanners, Videodrome, The … Continue reading Director Profile: David Cronenberg
Scott’s desire to tell people what movies to watch knows no bounds. He’s decided to create a series on here devoted to profiling directors and creating guides to their films. This week’s director is… Brian De Palma. Highly recommended: Sisters, Phantom … Continue reading Director Profile: Brian De Palma
Scott’s desire to tell people what movies to watch knows no bounds. He’s decided to create a series on here devoted to profiling directors and creating guides to their films. This week’s director is… John Ford. Highly recommended: The Informer, … Continue reading Director Profile: John Ford
Scott’s desire to tell people what movies to watch knows no bounds. He’s decided to create a series on here devoted to profiling directors and creating guides to their films. This week’s director is… Martin Scorsese. Highly recommended: Mean Streets, … Continue reading Director Profile: Martin Scorsese
Scott’s desire to tell people what movies to watch knows no bounds. He’s decided to create a series on here devoted to profiling directors and creating guides to their films. This week’s director is… Yasujirō Ozu. Highly recommended: I Was … Continue reading Director Profile: Yasujirō Ozu
Scott’s desire to tell people what movies to watch knows no bounds. He’s decided to create a series on here devoted to profiling directors and creating guides to their films. This week’s director is… Stanley Kubrick. Highly recommended: Day of … Continue reading Director Profile: Stanley Kubrick
Jean-Luc Godard, one of the most important and amazing directors to ever live, has passed away at the age of 91. The world of cinema owes Godard a huge debt of favor. Godard began as a film critic for the … Continue reading R.I.P. Jean-Luc Godard
I mentioned weeks ago that I was working on a top secret project that would take me awhile to make. Welp, I’m finally done with it! It’s a website devoted just to my top 1,000 feature films. https://why90000.wordpress.com/2022/09/07/my-1000-favorite-movies/ There’s also … Continue reading I made an entire website just for my top 1,000
As you probably heard, the Academy Awards are dropping eight categories from the broadcast this year. I’ve been fuming over this in both the Open Threads and on my Twitter account nigh non-stop since this was announced. They’re dropping all … Continue reading I’m not watching the Oscars this year
1. Mad Max: Fury Road with 21 mentions2. Raiders of the Lost Ark with 20 mentions3. The Empire Strikes Back with 19.67 mentions4. Casablanca with 18 mentions5. 2001: A Space Odyssey with 16 mentions5. Alien with 16 mentions5. Spider-Man: Into … Continue reading Avocado Sight & Sound Year VI results
The nominations for the 42nd Golden Raspberry Awards were unveiled today and they are terrible. Some of you might be thinking “Didn’t you already do this?” but that was about the nominating ballot, these are the actual nominees and they’re … Continue reading The 2021 Razzie nominations (are awful)
It’s that time of the year again, where I harangue everyone until they throw together a top 10 movies list. I was feeling extra masochistic, so I made the rules more complex for me this year: 1.) Your ballot can … Continue reading Avocado Sight & Sound Year VI
It’s time for the Avocado’s least favorite tradition, my annual dissection of how terrible the Razzie nominating ballot. This year was especially awful as one of the best movies of the year is on here while the very worst movie … Continue reading Scott Looks at the Razzie Ballot Year 4: Did Ben Affleck Run Over the Razzie’s Cat or Something?
I have seen every single Marvel Cinematic Release in a theater. I own every single previous MCU movie, with the exception of Black Widow (haven’t been to a store that sells DVDs since it came out) and Shang-Chi (not out … Continue reading Eternals review: Eternally Boring (Spoilers)
Scene Dissection is a recurring feature on here where a movie scene is analyzed to see why it works so well. I decided to go in the other direction and analyze a movie scene to see why it does’t work. … Continue reading Scene Vivisection: In Praise of Love, Jean-Luc Godard Probably Hasn’t Seen The Matrix
One of the biggest movie stars of the 1920s was Rin Tin Tin, a German Shepherd. He was born in France and was rescued by Lee Duncan, an American soldier who saw him in the middle of a WWI battlefield. … Continue reading The First Best Actor Oscar Almost Went to a Dog (Allegedly)
