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Continue reading →: Review: “Project Hail Mary,” Ryan Gosling’s (Sort of) One-Man-Show is a Familiar, But Wildly Entertaining Thrill RideMild spoilers to follow. You’ve seen “man trapped in space, based on a book by Andy Weir and adapted by Drew Goddard” before! You’ve seen “Ryan Gosling in space” before! You’ve seen “man travels across the galaxy to save a dying earth” cinema! You know exactly what you’re getting with…
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Continue reading →: Ranking Every 2026 Oscar-Nominated Feature FilmNOTE: It’s actually Every Oscar Nominated Film this Year…*Minus One, as Cutting Through Rocks is still entirely unavailable to watch, but will be added once I see it* Also, a few of these films have swapped rankings since I posted by Top 10 of the year after rewatches! Anyone that’s…
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Continue reading →: Final 98th Academy Awards Winners PredictionsAs we enter the home stretch, one week from the finish line, we face what we seem to always face each and every year towards the end of awards season: smear campaigns, anonymous ballots, controversies, and the sudden feeling that an underdog is coming for the big win of the…
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Continue reading →: Review: “Hoppers” is Delightfully, Off-the-Rails Insanity From PIXARMind or body swap narratives in film have been around for decades from The Shaggy Dog (1959) and Freaky Friday (1976) to more modern classics such as Avatar (2009) and Nine Lives (2016). While many are centered on the main protagonist solving an internal moral dilemma in the hopes of…
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Continue reading →: Review: “Scream 7”, For the First Time, Sidney Prescott Finally Faces Her Past… for the Sixth TimeIt was in 2011’s long-awaited Scream 4, that Neve Campbell’s Sidney Prescott landed the mic-drop closing line about remakes: “Don’t f**k with the original!” That was now 15 years ago, four Scream entries ago, ending Wes Craven’s return (and swan song) to the series with a poor box office performance…
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Continue reading →: TV Review: “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” Ups its Stakes and its Confidence in Improved Second SeasonWhile the first 6 episodes were screened in advance, for embargo reasons, most story details will be kept as vague as possible. With Apple’s ability to spend on massive budgets and their insistence on acquiring more familiar Hollywood intellectual properties for the hope of more eyeballs, 2023’s Monarch: Legacy of…
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Continue reading →: Review: “Dreams”, Chastain Lusts For A Private Life in Michel Franco’s Troubling RomanceMichel Franco is a filmmaker that understands that humans are complex, often egotistical creatures. Both their morality and intentionality are questionable at best under difficult circumstances. Franco’s movies have perplexed and intrigued critics, though to call them audience-friendly would be a laugh. As someone who can’t help but dig his…
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Continue reading →: Sundance Review: “Run Amok” Dares to Find Catharsis in Tricky Subject, With No SuccessThere were 230 instances of school shootings in America occurring just in 2025 alone, and that was just a mild drop from the year before. To call it a sensitive topic among everyday citizens would be an understatement. In fact, school shootings and inability to maintain sensible gun control, mostly…
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Continue reading →: Predictions: BAFTA, SAG (Actor Awards), PGA, WGA Awards WinnersWe are so close to the Oscars at this point, I can almost taste it, and it tastes like fumes because this season is so damn long. The pros to having a long wait between nominations and winners? Enough time to properly plan my Oscar Party menu and get my…
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Continue reading →: Sundance Review: “Carousel”, Pine and Slate Excel in Rachel Lambert’s Reserved Rom-DramRachel Lambert made a Sundance splash back in 2023 with her Daisy Ridley-starring Sometimes I Think About Dying. That charming oddball of a film found bountiful sweetness in a quirky premise about an even quirkier lead character, but due to Lambert’s affectionate and dream-like direction and Ridley’s earnest performance, both…
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Jakob Kolness
Minnesota Film Critics Association Member. Graduate of Film Studies, writer, novelist, filmmaker.
CURRENT 2027 OSCAR PREDICTIONS
“The Black Ball” (Netflix)
“Cry to Heaven” (TBD)
“Digger” (Warner Bros)
“Dune Part III” (Warner Bros)
“Fjord” (NEON)
“The Odyssey” (Universal)
“A Place in Hell” (NEON)
“Project Hail Mary” (Amazon MGM)
“Sense & Sensibility” (Focus Features)
“Wild Horse Nine” (Searchlight Pictures)
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