22 February
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PAUL PREDICTS THE OSCAR WINNERS (Some of them…) It’s been quite the year when it comes to Oscars 2019. It think it’s going to go down in the books as the most controversial, disastrous, and unpredictable lead up to the big night. The Academy has had to back track on many decisions in terms of their telecast and their desperate ploy to cut the run time down to three hours. No need to get into all of those bumpy bricks in the road at this point. Let’s focus in on eight of the categories. Here are my predictions of who will win on Sunday andRead More →

18 February
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AND THE OSCAR FOR BEST ORIGINAL SONG GOES TO… Every year I like to showcase the five Oscar-nominated songs all hoping to win the coveted Academy Award. It’s not every year that we get a plethora of fantastic music with many songs being left off the nominations list. When the nominations were announced, I was surprised that Troye Sivan’s “Revelation” from Boy Erased, “The Girl in the Movies” by Dolly Parton for Dumplin’ and Celine Dion’s “Ashes” from Deadpool 2 weren’t among the songs nominated. We also had films like A Star is Born, Black Panther, and Mary Poppins Returns which featured multiple songs vyingRead More →

14 February
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FYRE Director: Chris SmithStarring: Billy McFarland, Ja Rule, Grant Margolin, Andy King, Brett Kincaid, James Ohliger, Samuel Krost, Mdavid Low The Fyre Festival was marketed to be the next great big music festival for the millennial generation. It was going to be held on an island once owned by Pablo Escobar. His notoriety combined with beautiful people, booze, musicians, yachts, and villas sounds too good to be true but people went for it. The idea sprung from Billy McFarland, the entrepreneur of Fyre and Magnisus who partnered with hip hop artist Ja Rule. Word about the Fyre Festival spread to models, musicians, and social influencersRead More →

14 February
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ISN’T IT ROMANTIC Director: Todd Strauss-SchulsonStarring: Rebel Wilson, Adam Devine, Liam Hemsworth, Priyanka Chopra, Betty Gilpin, Brandon Scott Jones, Jennifer Saunders Every since she was a young girl Natalie (Wilson) has despised rom-coms. She was led to believe they are unrealistic and spread terrible lies. She works for an architecture firm but is never taken seriously. Her subway ride home turns into disaster when she is mugged. She hits her head on a pillar trying to get away and is knocked unconscious. When she wakes up, she finds herself in her own romantic comedy. Everyone is super nice, men flirt with her, and New YorkRead More →

13 February
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FROZEN II Director: Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee Featuring the voices of: Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Josh Gad, Jonathan Groff Disney will reign supreme at the box office for 2019. Not only will they be release three of their live action reboots with Dumbo, Aladdin, and The Lion King and their various Marvel and Star Wars films, but this November also marks the release of the highly anticipated Frozen II. The original film grossed $400 million at the domestic box office and became a world-wide phenomenon thanks to its strong female heroines voiced by Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel. It also featured catchy music by RobertRead More →

10 February
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THE LEGO MOVIE 2: THE SECOND PART Director: Mike MitchellFeaturing the voices of: Chris Pratt, Will Arnett, Elizabeth Banks, Tiffany Haddish, Stephanie Beatriz, Alison Brie, Nick Offerman, Charlie Day Five years have passed since the events of the first movie. Finn is getting older and his sister, Bianca, has now started playing with her Duplos set with doesn’t sit well with the Legos. Finn has turned his Lego community into the post-apocalyptic Apocalypseburg. Lego construction worker Emmett (Pratt) still believes everything is awesome, but his friend Lucy (Banks) is off brooding and stands guard waiting for aliens to attack. That very thing happens when Bianca’sRead More →

10 February
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VELVET BUZZSAW Writer/Director: Dan GilroyStarring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Toni Collette, Zawe Ashton, John Malkovich, Tom Sturridge, Natalia Dyer, Daveed Diggs, Billy Magnussen The seedy, mysterious, and cutthroat art world of Los Angeles isn’t quite prepared for the arrival of Vetril Dease. The catch is that Dease was an elusive artist no one ever heard of until his body is found dead in his apartment by Josephina (Zawe) who happens to work at an art gallery. Dease’s paintings catch the eye of gallery owner Rhodora (Russo) and art critic Morph Vandewalt (Gyllenhaal). When Dease’s works start popping up, a supernatural force takes over with deadlyRead More →

07 February
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WHAT MEN WANT Director: Adam ShankmanStarring: Taraji P. Henson, Tracy Morgan, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Aldis Hodge, Phoebe Robinson, Max Greenfield, Kellan Lutz, Erykah Badu Ali Davis (Henson) is the sole female sports agent at her agency. She’s worked hard to get where she’s at and has a tough-as-nails attitude along the way to compete with the chauvinist men around her in the office. Ali believes she’s a shoe-in to get a promotion to partner. She doesn’t get the promotion and is given the excuse that she doesn’t know how to connect with men. That all changes after attending her best friend’s bachelorette party. She has aRead More →

06 February
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PODCAST EPISODE 42 (PARTS 1 & 2): OSCARS 2019 I have a brand new episode of my podcast “Paul’s Trip to the Movies” up on Apple Podcasts (iTunes), PodcastOne and My Talk 1071’s website or wherever you get your podcasts. Episode 42 is so long that I broke it into two parts. I’m joined by guests Eric Henderson and Niles Schwartz to break down Oscars 2019 Click HERE for Episode 42 Part 1: OSCARS 2019: The Nominees, Controversies, and the Telecast Click HERE for Episode 42 Part 2: OSCARS 2019: Our Predictions Thank you so much for listening! Give us a review and rating onRead More →

05 February
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FYRE FRAUD Director: Jenner Furst, Julia Willoughby NasonStarring: Billy McFarland, Austin Mills, Matthew Burton Spector, Ja Rule, Cameron Davidson, Maria Kinnikova The Fyre Festival was thought to be the next great music festival to rival Woodstock and Coachella. It was created by business mogul Billy McFarland and hip hop artist Ja Rule. Word about the festival spread like wild fire once their marketing team pitched it to other celebs and social media influencers. Concertgoers paid thousands upon thousands of dollars for tickets and housing, yet none of it existed. The fraud of Fyre Festival imploded as Day 1 arrived and concertgoers arrived on the bareRead More →