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Continue reading →: Sundance Review: ‘Atropia’
You may or may not remember Hailey Gate’s small acting role in 2024’s Challengers, but regardless, her ambitions in filmmaking and conversations on set with Luca Guadagnino led to the inception of her first feature film. Spawned from her interest in the bizarre training methods of the US military, she…
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Continue reading →: Post-Oscar Nomination Thoughts
Let’s just dive head first into it. No, Emilia Perez having 13 Oscar nominations does not automatically mean that the Academy thinks it’s on the same level or better than The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Or a better film than Roma or Crouching Tiger, Hidden…
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Continue reading →: Final 97th Academy Awards Nominations Predictions- PART II: Major CategoriesWe are but two days away now from the big morning announcement and I’m only a little bit shakin’ in my boots. I published what I published for my Techs predictions and I’m refusing to go back now, as much as I’m already fretting about categories such as Best Makeup…
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Continue reading →: Final 97th Academy Awards Nominations Predictions- PART I: TECHS AND SHORTSIt feels too soon and yet so far away to be declaring my final prognostication of the 2025 Oscar nominations, but I just don’t see myself tweaking anything else until the upcoming Thursday announcement, especially after SAG, BAFTA, PGA, DGA, WGA have announced their nominations and the Golden Globes ceremony…
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Continue reading →: Review: ‘Hard Truths’Treat others the way you wish to be treated. In Mike Leigh’s newest venomous yet devastating drama, Pansy seems to take this to heart. Except she treats everyone cruelly, pushing them further and further until they snap back. Perhaps she has her reasons to be angry, but also maybe she…
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Continue reading →: Review: ‘Better Man’“Who is Robbie Williams?” this film asks. While the question may be targeted at most of the globe in a figurative sense, many North Americans may be asking literally. Williams’ 2000 phenomenon “Rock DJ” only gained a brief bump in perplexing curiosity due to its graphic music video appearing on…
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Continue reading →: Most Anticipated Films of 2025Perhaps 12 days into 2025 is too late to release a most anticipated of the new year list, but I had no intentions of seeing Den of Thieves 2: Pantera anyway (sorry bros), so nothing so far being released in January as this posts eclipsed the window of time I…
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Continue reading →: Recap: Nikki Glazer hosts a mild 82nd Golden Globes, with a few pleasant suprisesHost and nominee Nikki Glazer had one task on last Sunday’s telecast: don’t bomb like the last host (we won’t call him out here, he’s taken enough of a beating already). With that, she didn’t! With a few nice moments including her “Timothee Chalamet”-off with Adam Sandler and a few…
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Continue reading →: Review: ‘September 5’It’s been an odd release for Tim Fehlbaum’s nifty, condensed 1970s historical thriller September 5. Screening first at Venice back in August, few voices were singing this film’s praises, mostly because it seemed like few saw it at all. Picked up by Paramount Pictures as a possible awards contender, it…
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Continue reading →: Review: “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”The thing about Feathers McGraw, he’s got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at you he doesn’t seem to be livin’… until he slides his flipper over the red, rubber glove stretched over his noggin… It’s been 19 years since the last theatrical released Wallace…
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EDITOR, SITE WRITER
Jakob Kolness
Minnesota Film Critics Association Member. Graduate of Film Studies, writer, novelist, filmmaker.
CURRENT 2026 OSCAR PREDICTIONS
“Bugonia”
“F1”
“Frankenstein”
“Hamnet”
“Marty Supreme”
“One Battle After Another”**
“The Secret Agent”
“Sentimental Value”
“Sinners”
“Train Dreams”
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