Oscar Bait

I Am Sam, Grace Of Monaco, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. All made with the express purpose of winning Oscars. All absolute garbage. Joining this lackluster group is Ron Howard’s latest Hillbilly Elegy. A lifeless, hacky…

For most, if not all of us, fairy tales are part and parcel of the fiction we are introduced to when we are young. Tales of kings and queens, princes and princesses tell us what…

The beer-soaked carcass of the new year may barely be cold, but buckle up film fans: Oscar season has just begun. There will be a front-runner, a challenger, an outrage, an overriding social backdrop, some awful…