20 November
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MANK Director: David FincherStarring: Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Charles Dance, Arliss Howard, Tuppence Middleton, Tom Burke The American Film Institute has twice proclaimed Citizen Kane the greatest film of all time in their Top 100 countdowns. The new film Mank is another examination of that film. The title “Mank’ is the nickname for Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz played by fellow Oscar winner, Gary Oldman. It’s 1940 and Orson Welles is given carte blanche to make any movie he wants and given total creative control over it. Mank’s screenplay is on a tight deadline for Welles, but his broken leg and alcoholism areRead More →

05 March
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THE 90th ACADEMY AWARDS – THE WINNERS And the WINNERS are… BEST PICTURE The Shape of Water BEST DIRECTOR Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water BEST ACTOR Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour BEST ACTRESS Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Allison Janney, I, Tonya BEST EDITING Dunkirk BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Jordan Peele, Get Out BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY James Ivory, Call Me By Your Name BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM A Fantastic Woman BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Roger Deakins, Blade Runner 2049 BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN The Shape of Water BEST SOUND MIXING Dunkirk BEST SOUNDRead More →

01 March
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PAUL PREDICTS (SOME OF) THE OSCARS WINNERS This year’s Oscar race will no doubt come with some surprises. The acting categories seem pretty locked in place given that the four frontrunners (Oldman, McDormand, Janney, and Rockwell) have won every other major award so far. It’s the Best Picture and Best Director races that seem a bit more ambiguous as you can make cases for a variety of the nominees. Here are my thoughts on the top six categories And the nominees are… BEST ACTOR 1. Timothee Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name 2. Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread 3. Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out 4. Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour 5. DenzelRead More →

21 January
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The 24th ANNUAL SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS – THE WINNERS OUSTANDING ENSEMBLE THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI Abbie Cornish Peter Dinklage Woody Harrelson John Hawkes Lucas Hedges Željo Ivanek Caleb Landry Jones Frances McDormand Clarke Peters Sam Rockwell Samara Weaving OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE Gary Oldman, The Darkest Hour OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Alison Janney, I, Tonya OUTSTANDING ACTIONRead More →

11 January
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THE 23RD ANNUAL CRITICS CHOICE AWARDS – THE WINNERS And the winners are… BEST PICTURE The Shape of Water BEST ACTOR Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour BEST ACTRESS Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Allison Janney – I, Tonya BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS Brooklynn Prince – The Florida Project BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri BEST DIRECTOR Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Jordan Peele – Get Out BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY James Ivory – Call Me by Your Name BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Roger DeakinsRead More →

08 January
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THE 75th GOLDEN GLOBES AWARDS – THE WINNERS And the award goes to… Best Motion Picture – Drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Lady Bird Best Director Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird Best Actor in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy James Franco, The Disaster Artist Best Supporting Actor Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards OutsideRead More →

07 December
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DARKEST HOUR Director: Joe Wright Starring: Gary Oldman, Ben Mendelsohn, Lily James, Kristin Scott Thomas, Stephen Dillane, Ronald Pickup 2017 seems to be the year of the Winston Churchill comeback. John Lithgow won praise and many awards for playing him in Netflix’s series The Crown. Now Churchill’s getting a big screen treatment with Gary Oldman as the British Prime Minister. Darkest Hour picks up on May 9, 1940 with the House of Commons in a mad frenzy over the state of Britain’s place in World War II. Boisterous remarks are declared stating that Neville Chamberlain (Pickup) is not fit to run the country and faceRead More →

17 August
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THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD Director: Patrick Hughes Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman, Salma Hayek, Elodie Yung “Why are we always yelling?” This is a quote from Ryan Reynolds to Samuel L. Jackson’s character late in the movie. This pretty much sums up the entire movie. If you’re familiar with the roles Reynolds and Jackson are known for, that’s essentially what you get here with two hours of yelling. They make up the title pair with Jackson playing Darius Kincaid, a well-known hitman who has been sentenced to life behind bars. He becomes an important player in the trial of Belarus leader Vladislav DukhovichRead More →

02 February
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THE SPACE BETWEEN US Director: Peter Chelsom Starring: Asa Butterfield, Britt Robertson, Gary Oldman, Carla Gugino, BD Wong If you thought that The Martian or Interstellar were a little too advanced for your space-obsessed young kid, you may want to take them to see The Space Between Us. I’m already going to assume you saw Hidden Figures as that should be higher on your list of family friendly movies about NASA. For Gardner Elliott (Butterfield) all he knew was living on Mars. He was born on the red planet, as his mother was pregnant with him when she boarded a space mission there. Of courseRead More →

15 July
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DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Director: Matt Reeves Starring: Andy Serkis, Toby Kebbell, Jason Clarke, Keri Russell, Gary Oldman, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Nick Thurston, Judy Greer 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes ended with the apes attacking the Golden Gate Bridge. The movie as a whole was rather dull and full of bad acting, but it culminated to a rather intriguing ending that left me wanting more. I was optimistic that this series still had some life left to it. Ten years have passed since those events and the Simian flu has wiped out a majority of the human population. There isRead More →