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Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts 2019 (91st Academy Awards) review

Wed, Feb 20, 2019
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My pick: Vincent Lambe’s controversial and profoundly harrowing “Detainment,” a dramatization of the real-life police interrogations of the 10-year-old boys who killed a toddler in England in 1993.

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2018 Webby Award winners (which I help pick)

Wed, Apr 25, 2018
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A brief rundown of some of the film- and TV-related winners…

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curated: how the new members of the Academy are changing the Oscars

Mon, Mar 05, 2018
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Old fogies, move aside.

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Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts 2018 (90th Academy Awards) review

Sun, Mar 04, 2018
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My pick: I suspect that this year’s winner will be “Garden Party,” a spectacular debut from new French animation studio Illogic that I am sure we will be seeing a lot more stunning work from.

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The Salesman movie review: marriage, Iranian style

Wed, Feb 01, 2017
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This delicately realized portrait of an intellectual Tehran couple could easily be taking place in New York, London, or Tokyo. The empathy machine strikes again.

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from Facebook: the new AMPAS members are only a small step in the right direction

Thu, Jun 30, 2016
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from Facebook: what does the Academy value in a black performance?

Sun, Feb 21, 2016
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from Facebook: some Academy members didn’t even watch Straight Outta Compton

Tue, Jan 26, 2016
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from Facebook: AMPAS makes proactive changes to diversify

Sat, Jan 23, 2016
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Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) movie review: winged infamy

Tue, Feb 24, 2015
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It’s all a bit satirical. Or maybe not. Look, over there, Shakespeare in a superhero cape!

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