I would like to write a post for each category, ranking all the nominees. I thought I would start with Best Original Song even though I really do not have a lot of strong feelings here. I think all of the nominated songs are… fine. There is nothing particularly awful here, but there is no …
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A Few Words About the Oscar Nominations
So. The Oscar nominations were announced today. I still have not seen Little Women and The Farewell, two films that were snubbed in various categories, according to many. Both of them were directed by women, The Farewell – by a woman of color. No women were nominating in the Best Director category. Again. The two …
Top 19 Films of 2019
How can I sum up 2019 in movies… For a large part of the year, I actually thought it was quite weak film-wise, for the longest time the top of my „year ranked” list was filled with 2018 films released a year late in my country. But, thankfully, something happened in the autumn/winter and I …
Top 110 Films of the 2010s
Okay, I know it is not actually the 1910s. So, here is my list of my favourite 110 films of this decade. Knowing my luck, in these last two weeks of 2019, I will watch dozens of incredible 2010s films that will make this list obsolete. Oh, well. TOP 110 Films of the 2010s 110. …
Top 10 Films of the 1910s
The decade is coming to an end. The 20s are upon us! Naturally, we look forward to the future but also nostalgically gaze into the past. This is why I have selected my top ten films of the 1910s. This is a very subjective list of films that have somehow touched me, impressed me with …
Noirvember 2019 – “Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror” (1942)
Noirvember is coming to a close. It was a weird one over here, with half of the films I featured on the blog barely being qualifying as actual noirs (and the most iconic film this year was definitely not a noir). And today, the finale, is probably the least noir-y of them all and just …
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Noirvember 2019 – “Johnny Apollo” (1940)
Today’s film features none other than Tyrone Power, a star I have complicated feelings about but that’s a story for another day. Power plays the son of a stockbroker jailed for embezzlement. Because of this disgrace, Tyrone can’t find a job anywhere – his name is essentially tainted. So, naturally, he changes it – to …
Noirvember 2019 – “The Wrong Man” (1956)
We have an Alfred Hitchcock Noirvember film! At the beginning of all those entries I mentioned who directed each movie and what other works of theirs I have seen before. But I think this time there’s no need for that. Alfred Hitchcock himself shows up as the film starts, or rather, we hear his voice …
Noirvember 2019 Double Feature – “The Arnelo Affair” (1947) & “Whispering Footsteps” (1943)
NaNoWriMo has been pretty hard for me these past few days so the next entry in the Noirvember series is going to be a two-in-one. The first film is the 1947 The Arnelo Affair directed by Arch Oboler and it is the first film of his I’ve seen. We begin in a car, where a …
Noirvember 2019 – “Johnny Allegro” (1949)
We’re halfway through Noirvember now and once again we find ourselves with a story of espionage. George Raft plays the main role in Johnny Allegro – John Allegro, a florist, former soldier. A soldier is only a part of it, though – he is a real war hero. Oh, he is also a former criminal …
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Swingin' at the Seance 