Streaming Roulette April '22: Sweet Birds, Edgy Postcards, and Moon Knights

Bridgerton Season 2.

Are you watching Bridgerton Season 2? I'm trying to pace myself but I'm watching it too fast because I am eager for the extremely beautiful pair of Jonathan Bailey and Simone Ashley to consummate their love instead of just staring angrily at each other. I will never get over how widely accepted the trope of 'people who hate each other are obviously in love!' is in movies and television since it has no parallel in real life. I've never met a couple in real life who discovered their love because they aggravated and hated each other so much. Have any of you? 

Okay, time for this month's streaming roulette. You know the rules. We highlight new-to-streaming movies and an occasional TV series by freezing them on the scroll bar at entirely random places and just sharing what pops up. No cheating*!

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Doris Day @ 100: "The Man Who Knew Too Much"

To celebrate Doris Day's Centennial we're watching a few of the superstar's movies...

by Cláudio Alves

No matter how popular she was in her heyday, it's hard to look at Doris Day's lasting legacy and not think she's a tad underrated. Perhaps not as a comedienne or a songstress, but surely as an actress. Especially as a dramatic actress. While Day consolidated her stardom with many musicals and romantic comedies, her range went beyond such genres. She could as easily make her audience swoon and laugh as she could break their hearts and rile up adrenaline through pure suspense. So as we celebrate the star's centennial, let's appreciate the full breadth of her talents and shine a light on her brief stint as one of Alfred Hitchcock's (not so) icy blondes…

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That's a wrap on the 2021/2022 film awards season!

Another film year has wrapped up here at The Film Experience. Though we go by the calendar year for all awards purposes, when it comes to the film year, we think of it as as running from the day after the Oscars through to the next Oscar night. So Happy 2022 to all of you. We're about to start all over again.

THE BIG SHOW
• The Ceremony Reviewed
• The Slap
• Best Dressed Polls
• 5 Best Speeches
• Top 10 Fashions
• On the 3 Hosts: Amy, Regina, and Wanda
• Ranking the Clips
• Appeal to the Academy re: Lady Gaga
• Podcast Discussion

EXTRAS
• Chris James' Fabulous Annual Oscar Party
• The Help as Good Luck Charm
• Records & Trivia
• What's Next for the Directors
• What's Next for the Actors
• What's Next for the Actresses
• Winners List & Charts

And of course there was a lot before that as well if you click on any tag for various actors and films!

Best of 2021 - Off-Oscar

• Nathaniel's Top 12 - from Flee to The Power of the Dog
• 22nd Annual Film Bitch Awards - Our annual celebratory medals party in 40 categories from the Oscar parallels to Diva of the Year, Best Cameos, Musical Sequences, and more.
• 10th Annual Team Experience Awards - Voted on by all of our contributors
• Year in Review Lists - Entertainer of the Year, etc...

Previous Highlights
May | June | July | Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec | Feb 2022

WHAT'S NEXT?
If you've ever considered subscribing (see right hand sidebar --> ) now would be a perfect time. The site operates on the barest of shoestrings and it's been really tough for a few years now. We'd like to keep going until our 25th anniversary but we need help. 

COMING THIS SUMMER IF YOU'LL BE HERE TO SUPPORT US

✅ Supporting Actress Smackdown Season (and companion 'year of the month' festivities for 1951, 1997, 2004) - dates TBA

✅ Emmy Coverage - we're hoping to do more than we've ever done (the budget thing again -- gotta sell more advertisements!) so let us know what series you'd to see more on right here. Which are 'most cinematic' to you?

✅ CINEMA: Cannes Film Festival, Elvis, The Northman, Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen, BROS, Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, and Mrs Harris Goes to Paris among others.

✅ "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" weekly film club -- join in!

✅ Centennial Parties: Doris Day (early April), Judy Garland (early June), and Eleanor Parker (late June)

✅ And much randomness. You know how we do 'off season'

Podcast: Past (first Oscar nights), Present (Oscar aftermath), and Future

Nathaniel welcomes back Nick Davis to talk about making peace with Oscar night such as it was. It's the only Oscar podcast you'll hear that doesn't discuss The Incident! Instead we talk about our first Oscar nights as children as well as what we liked about Sunday's show (yes, there were a few things) and then the conversation drifts towards what's next. What do we hope to see from some of the actors and directors in the future?

You can listen to the podcast on iTunes, Stitcher or Spotify or download the attachment below. 

Oscar Aftermath

Film Bitch Awards: Gold, silver, and bronze medals in 40 categories!

Hello dear readers. My own pet project each year is, as you know, the Film Bitch Awards. I take them so seriously (though they're meant to be fun) and I'm deeply appreciative that so many of you have have enjoyed them over the years. There are 40 categories and it takes awhile but they're all up now.

The two new and final pages involve memorable characters of the year (divas, heroes, villains, sexpots) and favourite minutes from the film year whether that be musical moments, action setpieces, sex scenes, credit sequences. Hope you enjoy.

Once all categories were tabulated, Power of the Dog and The Green Knight led the nominations with 13 and 12 citations, respectively. In these "extra" categories, due to their nature, we always see increases from the more extroverted pictures if you will (action, fantasy, comedy, musicals, etcetera) which is how The Green Knight made such a leap forward. So click on over to see how Zola, Cruella, Dune, Shang-Chi, In the Heights, Worst Person in the World, and many more fared. 

Oscar parallel categories
Page 1  Picture, Director, Screenplay, Animated Feature
Page 2  Lead and Support Acting.
Page 3  Visual Categories
Page 4  Sound Categories
"Extras"
Page 5  More acting prizes plus two new categories this year: Vocal Performances and Stunts
Page 6 "Character Prizes" Heroes, Villains, etc...
Page 7 Favourite Scenes (many types)