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Monday, January 13, 2020 at 10:25AM by Nathaniel R
Over at the Oscar Nomination Index, you can survey the whole field and see how we did on our predictions. The short answer is NOT GREAT. But want the long answer? If you do click to read more...
Honeyland, Oscars (19), Punditry Sunday, January 12, 2020 at 11:21PM by Nathaniel R
Anne Hathaway presents Joaquin Phoenix with Best Actor
We didn't have a budget for a quick trip to Los Angeles this weekend for the Critics Choice Awards but if you watched from home, what did you think? As per usual the movie awards went to the status quo with all but one of the directly parallel categories going to the recent Globe winners. The only difference was Dolemite is My Name winning Best Comedy but the Globe winner, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood wasn't nominated in that category since the CCMAs strangely don't make a distinction between drama and comedy... but then also have a comedy category. It's all very confusing. Most of the other prizes, most of which they give out off-air, went to expected Oscar frontrunners. The strangest outcome, though, was surely a tie in Best Director (Parasite/1917) with neither of those films taking Best Picture (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood)...
Sunday, January 12, 2020 at 7:00PM In this Team Experience series, contributors catch up with gaps in their film history. Here's Cláudio Alves...
With Parasite making history and Bong Joon-ho more celebrated than ever, it's a good time for me to watch the two films that propelled the Korean director to his first waves of international success. I had never seen 2003's Memories of Murder and 2006's The Host so I was eager to correct that.
The first film is based upon real events, telling a story of police investigation and serial killing, while the second is a sort of South Korean answer to Godzilla's prismatic view of national trauma as monster movie hijinks. Not unexpectedly, I found myself in awe of both pictures…
Sunday, January 12, 2020 at 6:10PM 
