When the nominations for this year’s Academy Awards were first announced a few weeks ago, we read through them with a mixture of happy surprise, ambivalence, resignation, and disappointment. While we felt that some of the nominated films, performances, and technical work were well deserving of recognition, we couldn’t help but feel that many of […]
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GREEN BOOK is an impressive showcase of excellent performances and missed opportunities
I’ve been struggling with how to review Green Book, which I wanted to love, but wound up leaving me with some pretty complicated feelings, not all of them good. It’s currently sitting at 82% on Rotten Tomatoes (with a 94% audience approval rating), with most critics praising the powerful performances of its two leads and […]
The Sorting Hat: Game of Thrones, Part 5
Welcome to The Sorting Hat, where we sort characters from all sorts of various fandoms into their Hogwarts houses! If you’ve been following the blog for the past few weeks, you know we’ve been determinedly working our way through the massive cast of HBO’s Game of Thrones, and we are finally on our final week! If […]