The BeMovieSeeMovie Oscar Ballot – 2021
Oscar Nominations are on the horizon, so here are my non campaign influenced picks for the year. There’s some continuity from last year in the …
Asghar Farhadi
Movie Review: A Hero
Very few moviemakers out there have a way of making their films feel like parables or fables that should be told, generation to generation. One …
The Early Oscar Considerations Ballot…2019 Edition
I know this ballot means nothing, because, before September, no one’s really campaigning hard for Academy Awards. But a base needs to start somewhere, and …
Movie Review: Everybody Knows
When your first film so beautifully and perfectly captures the struggles of the human condition, there’s really nowhere to go but down. Thankfully, a not …
Movie Review: The Salesman
Asghar Farhadi is in the current director pantheon, in my opinion. Farhadi, Richard Linklater, Park Chan-wook, and Adam McKay are on the Mt. Rushmore of …
Fall Movie Preview: The Oscar Contenders
Here’s a glimpse of the prestige fall movies, for those cinephiles and culture aficionados: BIRTH OF A NATION The Good: Nate Turner’s passion project about a …
The Should Be Oscar Nominations of 2013: Final Ballot
WINNERS ARE IN BOLD: Best Picture Her Gravity Before Midnight 12 Years a Slave Lee Daniel’s The Butler Upstream Color Short Term 12 The Conjuring …
Movie Review: The Past
Asghar Farhadi is one of the best directors out there that can inject suspense out of an everyday problem that people have to deal with. …
Movie Review: A Separation
A Separation is a wonderful combination of genres rolled into one: courtroom drama, family conflict, mystery, and a dysfunctional institution story. Director Asghar Farhadi sets …