Streaming Roulette: Honey Boys & Gates of Hell

by Nathaniel R

The mania of Oscar season completely detached us to what people might have actually been streaming at home. So let's get back to that with a short round of Streaming Roulette. If you're new to the site that's how we share new streaming offerings. We select a handful (or two) of titles and just randomly hit a place on the scroll bar to see what the film looks like - no cheating. 

If you'd like us to write up any of the new to streaming pictures (there's a huge list after the roulette) please share what you'd most like to talk about in the comments. Maybe we'll get to 2 or 3 of them? Ready? Let's stream...

The reviews were... like, I murdered their children or something. 

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That's a Wrap on the 92nd Oscars

The swiftest Oscar season we've personally ever experienced has come and gone. When we first started watching the Oscars in Ye Olden Times of the 1980s as a kid they were in mid April on Monday nights. Yes, mid-April (!!!) on Monday nights (!!!). Herewith everything we wrote about Hollywood's most recent High Holy Night to close the party down. 

Overview
Winners and Immediate Takeways
Podcast: Oscar Night in Review
New Oscar Trivia
Oscar Charts
The Times are Changing - Oscar Inclusivity

Specifics
The Tuxes and Gowns
Ranking the Musical Numbers
Ranking the Acceptance Speeches
Ranking the Acting Clips 
Little Women's Costume Win
Embroidered Fashion Statements
Top Five Presenters
Backstage Oscar Photos
Colin Jost or Brad Pitt?
Chanting for Parasite 

Related to the Big Night...
If you want to honor Judy 
Foreign movies after Parasite
Actors playing Actors (and winning gold) 
Justice for Horror Movie costumes
The decade in Best Actress fashion
What's next for the Oscar winners?
Directing actors to nominations
Honorary Oscar Speeches: Geena, Wes, David, Lina

Nominee Interviews
For Sama directors
Joker costume designer
The Irishman cinematographer
Frozen 2 songwriters 
Avengers, Lion King, and Rise of Skywalker visual effects

COMING NEXT TO THE FILM EXPERIENCE?
We'll wrap up the 2019 film year over the next few days by completing the Film Bitch Awards and then, after a short break, return fresh-faced and ready for the 2020 film year (already in progress) with the return of all your favourite series including the Supporting Actress Smackdown. And we'll probably have some "best of decade" fun too now that the 2010s have wrapped. 

The modernity of Little Women's costumes

by Cláudio Alves

Last Sunday, the great Jacqueline Durran became a two-time Academy Award winner thanks to Little Women. As the umpteenth costume designer to tackle Louisa May Alcott's classic tale, Durran had the challenge of dressing these well-known characters in a bold reinterpretation. Eschewing the strict historical accuracy with which Collen Atwood tackled the subject in 1994, Jacqueline Durran evoked the fashions of the 1860s by infusing them with character-specific idiosyncrasies and a general sense of 21st-century modernity.

Her designs are not as bound to their filmmaker's contemporary styles as the Little Women of 1933 or 1949. However, there's no denying that the current iteration of the March sisters is filtered through the sensibilities of artists living in the 2010s… 

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Third Annual 'Ranking the Acting Clips' Post

by Ben Miller

For the third year, Nathaniel has been nice enough to let me rank the Oscar clips.  I was so excited to write this heading into Oscar night, until I saw the first clip package.  The Academy decided to shake things up and present a montage of clips for the group of nominees, so we have to work with what they gave us.  Presenting, the 2019 Oscar clips (sort of), ranked by quality.

That’s…a choice

Don't you EVER talk to your mother like that!

If something were to happen to my boss's car, well then I'd get in trouble."

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Directing Actors to Oscar Nominations ~ Updated Stats!

by Ben Miller

Power couple Noah and Greta moving up the "Directed Actors to Oscar Nominations" charts

The Oscars are so stat heavy, it’s difficult to keep up with the information. Especially since each season there's yet more of it. One of the stats that gets perpetually lost in the noise is the complex area  of 'acting nominations by director'. If you’ve read my previous piece last year, I am somewhat of an expert in this field, and this year’s set of nominees and winners provides some interesting stats.

First Timers

With nominations for Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson and Laura Dern, Noah Baumbach does what Guillermo Del Toro did with Shape of Water and Martin McDonagh did with Three Billboards, going from zero to three acting nominations from his filmography in one year.  A few directors have gone from zero to four, including but not limited to...

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