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 the Spider-Verse with 16 mentions8. The Godfather with 15 mentions9. Star Wars with 14.67 mentions10. The Princess Bride with 14 mentions10. The Thing with 14 mentions12. Citizen Kane with 13 mentions12. The Third Man with 13 mentions14. The Big Lebowski with 12 mentions14. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly with 12 mentions14. Jaws with 12 mentions14. Mulholland Drive with … 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 no better. WORST BRUCE WILLIS PERFORMANCE IN A 2021 MOVIE-American Siege-Apex-Cosmic Sin-Deadlock-Fortress-Midnight in the Switchgrass-Out of Death-Survive the Game Huh, they actually addressed one criticism I had about the nominating ballot, the absence of Bruce Willis despite starring in eight reviled movies. I’m not sure if this was the plan from the start for this to be its own category … 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 only contain 10 titles; no more, no less.2.) That being said, if you want to put a while series down, you can. However, it won’t count as a whole. You can put the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy down but each individual film will only get .33 points.3.) Twin Peaks: The Return is not a movie.4.) More of a suggestion than a rule … 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)
It’s time for the Avocado least favorite tradition, the one where I look at the Razzie nominating ballot and opine how awful it is. However, things are a little different this year: this year’s ballot is so abysmal and slipshod, that I’m just truly defeated by how bad it is. Verotika, the very worst movie I saw from last year, is nowhere to be seen while Wonder Woman 1984, a movie not everyone was a fan of but it’s much better than most of the movies the Razzies ignored, got two nominations. I’m just going to present the ballot in … Continue reading Scott looks at the Razzie Ballot: Verotika was robbed!!!
Here it is, the results for the fifth Avocado Sight & Sound poll. I normally include pictures of the winning films but because WordPress is a nightmare to work with now, I’ll just post the titles. You’ll have to look up the pictures themselves. 1. Raiders of the Lost Ark-17 mentions2. Mad Max: Fury Road-13 mentions2. Mulholland Drive-13 mentions4. Casablanca-12 mentions4. Citizen Kane-12 mentions6. Alien-11 mentions6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind-11 mentions6. The Thing-11 mentions9. 2001: A Space Odyssey-10 mentions9. It’s a Wonderful Life-10 mentions 11. Aliens-9 mentions11. Die Hard-9 mentions11. The Lord of the Rings-9 mentions11. The Princess … Continue reading Avocado Sight & Sound Year V results
It’s that time of the year again, where I harangue everyone until they throw together a top 10 movies list. Here’s the rules: 1.) Your can only contain 10 titles; no more, no less.2.) That being said, if you want to put a while series down, it will count as only one title. So, you can put the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy down as a single title if you want.3.) Twin Peaks: The Return is not a movie.4.) More of a suggestion than a rule but listing films in this format will make things easy for me: “[Film Title] directed … Continue reading Avocado Sight & Sound Year V
