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Saturday
Apr302022

April. It's a Wrap

You guys. It's the first monthly wrap of the film year (given that last year's awards season showed itself the door just one month ago). I'll be the first to admit that the site has been unusually quiet this month but it's the refractory period! We're (almost) ready to come roaring back. 

A Dozen April Highlights ICYMI
• April Foolish Oscar Predictions [ALL NEW CHARTS] -an annual too-early tradition
• Touring The First Lady Suites - A unique promo for the starry miniseries
• Wicked (2024/2025) in Two Parts - What a uniquely terrible idea!
Almost There [S4] - Nicole Kidman in The Paperboy (2012)
One for Them, One For Me [S2] - Natalie Portman's 2011
• Hit Me With Your Best Shot [S8]- The Godfather (1972)
50 Greatest RomComs - A list covering 1932-1989
Heartstoppers Thought Experiment - What if Olivia Colman didn't exist?
Crimes of the Future - Cronenberg's tease
Barbie (2023) - first promo image
And The Runner Up is - On the 1947 Best Actress Race
Doris Day [MINISERIES] - a three part retrospective
Hou Hsiao-hsien [MINISERIES] a four part retrospective
 

Coming in May
Coverage of the Cannes Film Festival, the Tony nominations, a look back at Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 2 and Wong Kar Wai's Happy Together for our "Best Shot" series, and the schedule for the new season of Supporting Actress Smackdown. We'll also cover a bevy of new films including Downton Abbey 2, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Men, Top Gun Maverick, and The Bob's Burgers Movie. At month's end we kick off 12 episode Judy Garland Centennial Miniseries!

Friday
Apr012022

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, BROSDoctor 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'

Thursday
Mar312022

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)

 

Saturday
Mar262022

Best Limited Performances, Breakthrough Actors, and more...

by Nathaniel R

I'm currently in a mad-dash effort to wrap up the 2021 film year before the Oscars. This means our own awards need to be completed. On the Film Bitch Award pages you've already seen the Oscar parallel categories but now the "Extra" Acting categories are complete...

So click on over for odes to Vanessa Bayer, Ana de Armas, Harriet Samson Harris, Moses Ingram, Britne Oldford, David Clavel, Bradley Cooper, Barry Keoghan, Chris Messina, Channing Tatum, Stephanie Beatriz, Mike Rianda, Woody Norman, David Alvarez, Simu Liu, and many more...

Sunday
Feb272022

February. It's a Wrap

Eeeeeeeeeehhhhaaaargwhoohoo. We're about to enter final month of the 2021 film year with SAG tonight (foolish predictions here!) and Oscar night looming. We hope you're voting daily on the Oscar charts and investigating all the trivia and 'how'd they get nominated?' theorizing. Here are a dozen highlights from the month that was in case you missed 'em...

Why can't the Oscars love themselves? -The Academy self-sabotages yet again
Why can't we have Jonathan Bailey in the movies? - An appreciation of the Olivier winning Bridgerton star
Almost There: House of Gucci Cláudio talks Lady Gaga's star turn
Best Shot: Nightmare Alley - our once-signature series returns for a reboot season. Thank you for attending, especially those who played or commented!
Film Bitch Nominations - Nathaniel's awards ballots revealed
Kristen Stewart can still win -Despite a rocky precursor season a Best Actress win might happen
Oscar and LGBTQ actors -Evolution of (slow) acceptance
Death on the Nile- a power ranking of the suspects
One for them One for Me: Nicole Kidman - remembering the goddess' 2004
Nathaniel's Top 10 List - from Petite Maman to Power of the Dog
Martha Plimpton interview - thank you to Abe for speaking to one of our favs
LGBTQ Representation on TV - GLAAD's annual report
12 Takeaways from the Oscar Noms - What stood out?
Oscar Nom Reaction - the team shares their highs and lows

COMING IN MARCH
Obviously there will be much Oscar hoopla including Honorary Oscar miniseries on Samuel L Jackson and Liv Ullmann and the first episode of the new season of Supporting Actress Smackdown. You can also expect discussions of new films The Batman, After Yang, Turning Red, and The Lost City. As far as older films to check out to maximize your reading pleasure here: queue up Romancing the Stone (1984), The Godfather (1972), and The Conversation (1974). ANY REQUESTS?

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