by David Ferguson | Feb 21, 2019 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts 2019 The difference in production value is quite evident in the animated shorts category, as not all filmmakers are backed by the resources of Pixar or Disney. What really stands out here is the strength of the stories and how they play...
by David Ferguson | Feb 21, 2019 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts 2019 By definition, films in this category pack a punch with a real life story into a run time of just a few minutes. It’s possible one or two could be transformed into a feature length documentary or narrative interpretation, and...
by David Ferguson | Feb 21, 2019 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Top-to-bottom, this is the strongest shorts category I can recall. The quality of each is such that winning the Oscar would be well-deserved for any of the nominees. Four of the five are tension-packed, while the fifth is just as emotional – only in a more intimate...
by David Ferguson | Feb 17, 2019 | Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. Despite her regular role in all 7 seasons of “Gilmore Girls” and her co-lead role in the 6 season run of “Mike and Molly”, it was her raunchy turn in 2011’s BRIDESMAIDS that turned Melissa McCarthy into a star. Since then, she has...
by David Ferguson | Feb 14, 2019 | Featured, Movie Reviews, Movies
Greetings again from the darkness. Is it a coincidence that I’m reviewing this moving on Charles Darwin’s birthday? “Survival of the fittest” could be the subtitle to writer-director Tim Sutton’s bleak film adapted from the novel by Frank Bill. The film would have us...
