The Big Short is another movie on the Best Pictures nominees list this year. I am a very big admirer of all the guys involved with it, actors, the director, the book's author, etc, but I feel that I have to mention a few things from the beginning. This is not The Wolf of Wall Street, this is not some biography, this is a movie largely based on real facts with some more than large suppositions and invented characters. Nor them, nor the figures are appropriate, or even close to … [Read more...]
Short Personal Review Before the Oscars 2014
I have very recently watched "Lee Daniel’s The Butler" and I have been impressed of another one not being nominated for this year’s Best Movie. I mean, I couldn’t bring myself to pass the critical first twenty minutes of "12 Years a Slave", so I do not really understand the British fuss, except that the lead actor is British. It received the Golden Globe for Drama and maybe I have been wrong in my haste. I want to say that this year, the only movie close to an Oscar is "The Wolf of Wall … [Read more...]
BAFTA 2014: Nominees, a List
This year BAFTA Nominees' list, comes from LA Times. Usually, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards Ceremony, takes place before the Oscars, this year, it will be on Sunday, February 16'th. They have four categories outstanding the fact that this is a British thing, not American, otherwise it would have been a poor copycat of the Oscars. So, not much imagination here, as well. I have watched a few of the movies en vogue, and I sadly confess that I'm not impressed at all. But I … [Read more...]
The Oscars
On February 27 'th, we shall enjoy the Oscars, the most prestigious Award Ceremony in the world of movies and cinema. As you may already know, for a movie to be eligible for consideration, "must be feature length over 40 minutes, publicly exhibited by means of 35mm or 70mm film, or in a 24- or 48-frame progressive scan Digital Cinema format with a minimum projector resolution of 2048 by 1080 pixels, for paid admission in a commercial motion picture theater in Los Angeles County, for a … [Read more...]