This column is a few days late this week, but then this was a particularly busy few days. The first three of the actual awards precursors finally arrived this week, including the New York Film Critics Circle, the National Board of Review and the Gotham Independent Film Awards. What’s the verdict? This is still anyone’s …
One of the most consistently controversial categories in the Oscar race is the Best Documentary category, a branch that has snubbed Steve James, Werner Herzog and Errol Morris in past years. This year however, Steve James did make the list with his documentary Life Itself, based on the life of Roger Ebert, along with the …
This week at the end of October is the point in the Oscar race where pundits begin spinning their wheels. The festivals are over, the critics’ awards haven’t started yet, and no new movies are arriving, leaving little to actually go on in terms of new predictions. Keep in mind, when an Oscar pundit talks …
Neil Patrick Harris can finally be crossed off your Oscar host wish list, as he has been named the host for 2015’s 87th Annual Academy Awards Ceremony on Sunday, February 22. Oscar producer Neil Moran tweeted the news earlier today, and NPH himself shared a short video of him crossing this task off his own …
“You’ll never watch Sunday football the same way again,” said a friend as I entered into my first season of Fantasy Football. Viewing it in the lens of a competition led to the ugly truth that I analyzed players as numbers and stats, teams and schedules as data points and my friends’ teams as trends …