For about five years now, the internet’s favorite armchair diagnosis has been “superhero fatigue.” We’re all familiar with the bit. Every underperforming cape movie gets the same postmortem: audiences are DONE, the genre is COOKED, the well is DRY, Kevin Feige should salt the earth and move onto greener pastures. We’ve all been writing the...
For the better part of the last decade, it has felt as if the theatrical experience has been standing on its last leg, waging its final war, poised to fend off a changing tide or be swept away by it. Between the rise and proliferation of streaming services and the COVID-19 pandemic – which shuttered...
The recent announcement that Robert Downey Jr. will don the mantle of Dr. Doom after years of embodying Tony Stark/Iron Man sent shockwaves through the entertainment sphere. Unveiled at Nerd Mecca (Comic Con’s Hall H), the news was met with wild enthusiasm from attending fans. Soon, a torrent of think-pieces flooded the media, from entertainment...
The Seattle Film Critics Society select Chloe Zhao's 'Nomadland' as the best picture of 2020.
The wait is over, the official 2019 Silver Screen Riot Awards are here and I promise they aren't the exact same as everyone else's...
“PARASITE” NAMED BEST PICTURE OF 2019 BY SEATTLE FILM CRITICS SOCIETY Seattle, WA – The Seattle Film Critics Society (“SFCS”) announced the winners in 20 categories for the 2019 Seattle Film Critics Society Awards on Monday, December 16, 2019. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite proved the big winner this year, landing five awards, including Best Picture of...
MARTIN SCORSESE’S “THE IRISHMAN” EARNS MOST NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2019 SEATTLE FILM CRITICS SOCIETY AWARDS “The Irishman” scores 10 nominations, while Bong Joon-ho’s acclaimed “Parasite” follows with 9. ‘Twas a year of heavy hitters at this year’s Seattle Film Critics Society with The Irishman, Parasite, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood scooping up a...
They all can't win. Not all of them should be there. And some alternate universe picks that didn't get invited to play.
Each and every year, us film bloggers fold ourselves into a pretzel trying to prognosticate the winners of these awards downwind a country mile with nothing but the occasional whiff of “Actual Oscar Ballot”. Personally, I’ve kind of fallen out of the habit of tracking these things – but have relished the opportunity to be a...
With the announcement of the Academy Awards nominees, we’re finally in the race to the finale of this year’s award’s seasons. Seeing that Mr. Oscar tends to get it wrong so much of the time (although this year’s nominees were fairly great across the board), we have an annual tradition of issuing our own awards...