The 95th Academy Awards: My Picks and Predictions

Happy Oscar Sunday! It’s been a pretty exciting awards season, with several movies I enjoyed last year getting some well-deserved recognition, so much so that there are quite a few races that aren’t as easy to predict as usual as we head into the Oscars. This year though I won’t be glued to my TV…

Films in 2023: February

As expected, I did more movie-watching related to this Oscar season in February, which included several screenings with this year’s nominees, all thanks to the American Cinematheque: Sir Roger Deakins; Martin McDonagh, Colin Farrell, and Brendan Gleeson; Brendan Fraser; and Paul Mescal. On top of seeing those Oscar nominees at the Aero, I also got…

Films in 2023: January

This past month as far as movie-watching goes was a good way to kick off 2023. As usual, I watched some awards contenders, which included catching up with the remaining movies that just earned Oscar nominations in the acting categories (and elsewhere) that I hadn’t seen yet. There are at least a couple of other…

Films in 2022 Review

2022 was the biggest movie-watching year for me yet, though not because of the overall number of films I watched in a year’s time. In fact, compared to the past two years when I spent much more time than usual at home, I didn’t see nearly as many movies, but so many of what I…

Films in 2022: December

Happy New Year! Hope you all had a great time ringing in 2023. My last moments of 2022 were spent playing the new Rear Window board game with my family, so that was a lot of fun! Movie-watching-wise, my viewing habits winded down a bit in the last couple of weeks of December, but it…

Films in 2022: November

November seemingly flew by, and as you’ll see, I ended up re-watching more movies than seeing films for the first time, but I still saw plenty regardless! During the first weekend of the month, I went to a handful of AFI FEST screenings, most of which included Q&As with the talent in front of and…

Films in 2022: October

Can you believe it’s already November!? This year is really flying by, but I’m glad it’s now my favorite time of the year with the anticipation of the holidays and, more importantly as a cinephile, fall movie season and Noirvember! Before moving ahead to the new month, a look back at October, which was filled…

Films in 2022: September

I watched a ton of movies last month, so I saw relatively less in September, though as usual with my viewing habits that’s not saying much. At home, I caught up with some more movies from TCM’s Summer Under the Stars as well as a few films leaving the Criterion Channel at the end of…

Films in 2022: August

As expected with the month of August with TCM’s annual Summer Under the Stars program, I watched a ton of movies over the past 31 days. Though it wasn’t just from watching movies on TCM of course, I went to a number of screenings around L.A. too. Some of my favorites on the big screen…

Films in 2022: July

It feels like I’ve been saying this every month, but this past month was another great time at the movies. Some highlights include seeing a double feature of American Graffiti and Dazed and Confused at the New Beverly, Short Cuts in 70mm at the Aero, and finally seeing Mad Max: Fury Road on the big…