Friday, February 28, 2025
Thursday, February 27, 2025
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Winners, Day One: The 2024 Hollmann Awards
Today is the first of three days' worth of the 2024 Hollmann Awards; the full list of nominees can be seen here. Six categories we'll discuss today, beginning with:
Sunday, February 23, 2025
The 2024 Hollmann Awards - My Nominees Are...
We are a week away from the 97th Academy Awards - but you are only a sentence away from the nominees for the 2024 Hollmann Awards! 70 films seen, a Top Ten named (alphabetically), and now, 29 films in 18 categories - what I think is the best of the year...
2024: The Longlists
The following is a collection of longlists. A companion to my Top Ten, it narrows the field of the remaining 17 categories in the Hollmann Awards to 15 options each:
Friday, February 21, 2025
My Top Ten of 2024
This year, I thought the best way to approach the Top Ten was to consider: which movies so excited and moved me that I wanted to go out and make one of my own? Which movies made me feel that anything was possible? Which movies sparked the same wonder and amazement I first felt as a budding cinephile? Which movies sent me off on such a high that I wanted, at the very least, to rollerskate after?
With that in mind, and with a tip o' the cap to honorable mentions Cabrini, Gladiator II, Hundreds of Beavers, Lisa Frankenstein, Megalopolis, The Substance, Wicked, and The Wild Robot...my Top Ten:
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Passion Projects: 2024
I started my Directed By Kevin Costner journey back in October, looking at the films of 1990, the year he made Dances with Wolves and won Best Director for his efforts. Among the competition both at the box office and the Oscars was The Godfather Part III and its director, Francis Ford Coppola. Both men came back in 2024 with passion projects financed either partially or in whole from their own pockets. Both projects were highly anticipated, at least by me.
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