Wednesday, January 12, 2022 at 12:02PM by Nathaniel R
Each year when the SAG nominations for Outstanding Cast are named, we bemoan the rules which cause unneccessary exclusions. If an actor is in a movie lucky enough to be nominated for OUTSTANDING CAST it doesn't actually mean that they themselves were nominated. Allow us to explain...
Monday, January 10, 2022 at 9:02AM by Nathaniel R
Will the size and stardom of DON'T LOOK UP make it a SAG favourite?
Because this season has had so little drama, let's have a little fun with punditry instead of being concerned with being correct. Let's predict one surprise in ALL of the Screen Actors Guild movie categories. This was hard to do as the natural instinct is to be "as correct / as prescient" as possible and there obviously won't be a surprise in EVERY category. That just doesn't happen.
But it was the challenge we set ourselves, so here we go...
Sunday, January 2, 2022 at 12:19PM 
Since several of you have asked over the past couple of years, Nick Davis, who was once a weekly regular on both our podcast and his own site (haha) is fine! We spontaneously jumped on the phone to talk last month and recorded it. Apologies for waiting so long to share but you know how December is. So "Happy New Year!"
94 minutes
00:01 Reunited and it feels so good
01:40 Jane Campion's return with The Power of the Dog
13:35 The brilliance of Rebecca Hall's Passing which Nick has taught in book form for years
23:00 C'mon C'mon
29:30 Quick feelings on King Richard, Dune, and Licorice Pizza
40:12 Titane's anger and the atmosphere of The Humans
53:15 We split on The Worst Person in the World
1:08:00 Quick feelings on tick tick BOOM!, Belfast, Prayers for the Stolen, and The Velvet Underground
1:14:00 Hating on Spencer together. We really dislike it, okay?
1:24:45 Loving on Zola together. Get into it, bitch!
1:31:30 "Deleted Scene" House of Gucci
You can listen to the podcast on iTunes, Stitcher or Spotify or right here, attached...
Thursday, December 30, 2021 at 3:38PM by Nathaniel R
All of the Visual categories in the Oscar charts have now been updated save Costume Design which we tend to give its own articles -- playing favourites, sorry! But looking over the charts and the possibilities, it does beg the question: are Dune and West Side Story just going to be nominated in every category? And will any other films core as many nominations? The year isn't short on films that are visually remarkable of course. There's Power of the Dog, Nightmare Alley, Tragedy of Macbeth, The French Dispatch, The Green Knight, Passing, and more.
But the question is always what are voters actually watching and what are they liking? Being remarkable only gets you so far...
Wednesday, December 29, 2021 at 11:00AM By Ben Miller
The 10 finalists for the Best Visual Effects Oscar were announced last week. Though once reserved for films that pushed the boundaries of what films could visualize, the Oscars have since gravitated towards spectacle and bombast. Of the 10 films, none came from an independent studio or had a budget less than $100 million. That isn't to say their effects should be discounted, but don't expect to see something like Ex Machina or shortlisted documentary Welcome to Chechnya from last year. This category is usually reserved for outright spectacle, and these shortlisted films reflect that.
Let's focus on one specific setpiece per film that highlights the visual effects artists...
