AND JUST LIKE THAT... Academy Award voting has wrapped. So there's nothing left but the big show, the gowns, the accceptance speeches, and the post-mortem frenzy. Which also means February is basically a wrap since the next week is like Brigadoon... only its magic is annual instead of once every 100 years.
15 highlights from Jan/Feb ICYMI
• Original Song Ranking all 80 winners of Best Original Song
• Brooklyn TV Bound Why do I keep seeing a Period Facts of Life here with Julie Walters as Mrs Garrett?
• Best Actor It's the Year of the Ham. But how do you like your meat?
• Q&A the popular series returned with a Leonaro DiCaprio episode
• You Can Count on Me the most popular entry in our Sundance retrospective
• Silence of the Lambs a five part baton-pass revisit. Did you enjoy?
• Costume Design Beauty Break the Oscar nominees + 2 Nathaniel favorites
• Podcast Nathaniel & Nick on the best work from this year's Best Directors and Best Actresses before this current nomination
• Pansexual my Ass on Deadpool's bark / no bite
• Nathaniel's Top Ten List for 2015
• The Witch is the first must-see of 2016
• Best Screenplay which nominee is the most quotable?
• Production Design analysis of the nominees
• Forgotten Valentine How good is The Painted Veil (2006)? Very good
• Agent Carter the sure-to-be-cancelled show went Hollywood and got even better
And between Nathaniel and Jose we conducted over 50 interviews this past film year! Hope you enjoyed. Please do like us on Facebook and sign up for a forthcoming weekly newsletter (we really are going to do one this year -- starting very soon) so you don't miss anything.
COMING THURSDAY: Final Oscar Predictions
COMING FRIDAY: Film Bitch Awards Finale
COMING SATURDAY: Indie Spirit Awards
COMING SUNDAY: You know what. Duh
COMING IN MARCH: Oscar Post-Mortem, the return of Hit Me With Your Best Shot each Tuesday (kicking off with Ghostbusters on March 8th) Zootopia, Sally Field, Zack Snyder's Batman v Superman, and a look back at Oscar winner Mercedes McCambridge for her Centennial