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Monday, May 8, 2023 at 9:00AM by Nathaniel R
Your assignment should you choose to accept it is this: Choose a few of these fine talents this year and investigate the riches of their filmographies while they're still walking the Earth. Here's the list...
200 OLDEST LIVING SCREEN STARS
as of 05/14/23
100 years old
Sunday, May 7, 2023 at 10:00AM by Baby Clyde
Walter Brennan in "The Westerner". The last of his three wins was the most deserving.
After spending most of my life cataloguing all these Oscar winning performances, I feel uniquely qualified to bore you all with my rankings. We’ll cover my favourite winners before handing out some booby prizes to the all-time worst recipients in each acting category.
Let’s start with the category that nobody cares about, Best Supporting Actor...
Tuesday, February 7, 2023 at 12:00PM The Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Supporting Actor Charts are all updated with 'who should win' polls (vote daily) and trivia. Here's a silly little breakdown of "extra" numbers stuff from the four acting categories including a very "fiery" Zodiac coincidence.
Brendan Fraser in "The Whale"
ACTING NOMINEES BY THE NUMBERS...
Saturday, December 31, 2022 at 9:12PM Our "Year in Review" continues. Let the List-Mania commence...
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by Nathaniel R
Movie posters are not what they used to be. This is not an aesthetic "everything was better in the past" complaint but a fact; they aren't as present an advertising force as they were when one tall rectangular image and tagline would do the bulk of the advertising work to define a film. Now that work is dispersed in multiple shapes and images and visual modes, the old school poster included. Posters aren't quite a lost art but they are in Big Hollywood which prefers to make every poster a hideous inhuman collage of movie stars, think Frankenstein's Monster if Dr Frankenstein, had eschewed body parts and just used hundreds of faces in mismatched sizes to build his undead "man".
But enough complaints. Let's celebrate the posters that did right by their movies this year...
Wednesday, December 14, 2022 at 3:37PM by Nathaniel R
CARRIE (1976)
It's that time of year when this becomes THE LIST EXPERIENCE. The Library of Congress has revealed the titles that have been added to the National Film Registry denoting films that are "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." We wish it were any time other than December each year given all the other lists and that this one literally never has anything to do with the film year in process / wrapping up. But it is what it is. It's feast or famine and everyone is alway determined to keep December so tight that noone can breathe or pay attention to anything they're feasting on for more than two minutes!
Here is th 2022 list in chronological order as always...
Carrie, Charade, Hairspray, LGBTQ+, List-Mania, National Film Registry, Pariah, Tongues Untied 