The nominees for the 2014 Academy Awards were announced this morning, making me realize that holy hell am I behind. Gravity, American Hustle, and 12 Years A Slave lead with the most nominations (and lets be serious – they’ll dominate the ceremony this year.) There’s a lot of expected hits on this list, but I’m just really…
I feel it may be sacrilegious to admit that I didn’t care for West Side Story, but, uh, I didn’t. Like God might smite me or something. My mom loves the film though. Maybe I should’ve made her write this blog. (If only she knew what a blog was…) The dancing and choreography were top…
I fully realize that my last post was a review of a mid-80’s Italian Horror flick about a demon epidemic that takes over a small movie theater and later THE WORLD, so perhaps it’s super strange that I jump back and forth between black-and-white Best Pictures from the 1940’s and…well, that. But I’m going to…
The Best Picture winner of 1963 was this British Adventure Comedy set in the 1700s called Tom Jones. It follows the life of the title character, a bastard in both the literal and slang sense. He’s a rambunctious little bugger who runs around getting laid, causing a raucous, and embarrassing his foster-father, Squire Allworthy. Tom…
Before our viewing of the 1941 Best Picture winner How Green Was My Valley, my lady mentioned that it sounded like the title of a porno. Although the movie turned out to be your run-of-the-mill 1940’s film (bummer, man), I stopped to think about the many possibilities: In the movie’s bizarro porn version, would the…
To start out this here review of 1981’s British historical drama Chariots of Fire, I’d like to grade it first and discuss it second. Grade: F Ouch. And I don’t mean the grade. I mean the snoozefest about two athletes in the 1924 olympics. I can honestly say that I gained absolutely nothing from watching…
A church, a broken window, some piano playing, singing, and two priests not getting along so much. That about explains the 1944 Best Picture winner Going My Way, starring Bing Crosby, and it was JUST AS EXCITING AS IT SOUNDS!!!! Crosby plays Father Charles “Chuck” O’Malley, a young up-and-comer (if priests can even be referred…
Nominations are in for the 2013 Academy Awards and like most years, there aren’t too many surprises…except for that Ben Affleck snub for Best Director, Argo (what WHAAAAT!?). Speaking of Best Director, Zero Dark Thirty’s Kathryn Bigelow is also egregiously missing from the list. Yikes. Beasts of the Southern Wild fared way better than most probably predicted…
What do Gregory Peck, the gays and vegan “play” cheese have in common? Absolutely nothing at all! Welcome to another installment of The Littlest Winslow’s Epic Film Quest extraordinaire! This time, Gentleman’s Agreement (1947) was on the docket, we giggled about how silly the 40’s were, and I ate some surprisingly awesome pseudo-cheese made by Zoe…
I’m having one of those moments again where I liked a film, but am shaky on the write-y. I’m grasping for motivation to continue my quest to watch every single Best Picture winner possible, yet I’m struggling alongside simultaneous feelings of anxiety and contentment – content because I really did like 1929’s winner The Broadway…