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Continue reading →: 2025 Mid-Season Personal AwardsWe’ve reached the mid-point of 2025, aka only 1/8 completed of the Trump presidency so far! Back in the first quarter of the year, due to only a handful of films seen, I posted my Top 5, Bottom 5, and Best Performances list (which you can read here: https://jakobtalksfilm.wordpress.com/2025/03/26/the-films-of-2025-quarter-1-in-review-top-5-best-and-bottom-5-worst-best-performances/ ).…
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Continue reading →: Review: ’28 Years Later’- Boyle feels more alive than everIt has been 23 years since the original 28 Days Later sparked a re-ignition of the zombie genre. A bold and revolutionary work that not only redefined the genre, but introduced us to stars like Cillian Murphy and Naomie Harris and allowed Danny Boyle the chance to showcase his Dogma95…
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Continue reading →: Final 2025 Emmy Awards Nomination PredictionsThe key to success when it comes to prognosticating the nominations for the Primetime Emmy Awards is fairly simple, understanding what the three to five most popular shows of the year are and shower them with nominations in every category, even if it means cutting some “what should be” obvious…
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Continue reading →: 2023: Personal Awards2023 was the year of Barbenheimer in the minds of most, but beyond that, this year felt totemic delivering a new late-career masterpiece by our greatest living filmmaker on top of many of our great prestige names dropping bold new works. From melancholy Christmases to sexually-tormented protagonists to gigantic egos…
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Continue reading →: Review: Wes Anderson’s “The Phoenician Scheme” finds subtle sweetness under densely plotted caperThose expecting Wes Anderson to return to the straight-forward, warmly-stylized heart-on-their-sleeves dramedies featuring upbeat soundtracks that he established his name on may have to wait a bit longer (or perhaps an eternity). In the meantime, he seems fixated on cracking complicated human traumas through experimental and austere methods of storytelling.…
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Continue reading →: Review: “Friendship”, a truly inviting comedy for the criminally insaneThis review may contain spoilers. No, wait! No spoilers! He said “NO SPOILERS!” If you aren’t familiar with Tim Robinson’s brand of short-fuse cringe comedy, for which he gained huge success in the mainstream with Netflix’s sketch series I Think You Should Leave, walking into the new film by first-time…
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Continue reading →: Review: ‘Mission: Impossible- The Final Reckoning’ is as big a finale as Cruise can deliver, for better (and slightly for worse)Tom Cruise, a man who more likely is made of steel and adrenaline than bones and blood, has made it his mission for the last 30 years to be the king of movies, putting his body through endurance tests that could destroy the strongest and fastest creatures on earth. It’s…
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Continue reading →: Review: ‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ Knows Exactly What It Is and Doubles DownThe Final Destination franchise, originally the spawn of an X-Files spec script, has historically been both ridiculed in the critic community and beloved in the horror community. As independent online journalism and film criticism have collided more and more in the last decade, as well as once-young teens howling at…
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Continue reading →: 2024: Personal AwardsYes, yes, yes. It’s May of 2025 and we’ve moved on from last year. I’ve even shared these nominations on social media, but I would like to start this and work my way backwards as just a fun feature on this blog. I’ve been pretty adamant about catching up with…
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Continue reading →: Review: ‘Thunderbolts*’ is Not to be Underestimated as Typical MCU Fair36 movies into a franchise seems a bit much, right? For about 2/3 of its run, the Marvel Studios machine has been coasting on success after success, mildly switching tones and genres, but rarely straying from the same gloss and shine storytelling it began with. The last few years post-Avengers:…
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Jakob Kolness
Minnesota Film Critics Association Member. Graduate of Film Studies, writer, novelist, filmmaker.
CURRENT 2027 OSCAR PREDICTIONS
“All of A Sudden”
“Behemoth!”
“Digger”
“Dune Part III”
“Fjord”
“The Odyssey”
“A Place in Hell”
“Project Hail Mary”
“Untitled Damien Chazelle Film”
“Untitled Jesse Eisenberg Musical”
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