Gentle readers: Oscar nominations were announced today and if you’re anything like me, you are drowning in Oscar coverage. So here is some more coverage. (You’re welcome.) I’m adapting this blog from an email where I regaled my friends with my very unsolicited, very lengthy opinions about said nominations. And they were like, “OK.” I…
The 89th annual Academy Awards air Sunday and there is a 100% chance that I’m getting totally Oscar-drunk. (Thinking boxed wine because I’m obviously all class.) To celebrate this year’s fanciest of events, TLW is counting down the worst of the best (pictures), commiserating on the amount of time I actually spent watching these horrid…
Epic Film Quest: Completed. I’ve been waiting years to write those very words. After countless long nights and many trapped-in snow days, it is done. I spent hours and hours with Clark Gable, Bette Davis, Claudette Colbert, Vivien Leigh, and more. I visited almost all of the wars in history, I took part in Manifest…
One would think that a story about a dead father and the uncle who takes guardianship over his teenage son would be a real downer. And while it certainly has its moments of incredible pathos that is oh-so beautifully executed, Manchester By the Sea is hardly a one trick pony. It’s surprisingly loaded with subtle…
Two more Best Pics are down the drain, forever embedded into my mind’s eye…stealing me from sleep, leaving me all hot, bothered and occasionally, bored. The first: Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet from 1948. But gentle readers, doth must protest – or something – but Shakespeare and I are not friends. The more my high school English teacher crawled…
Previously on The Littlest Winslow…I set out to watch every single Best Picture winner in the history of the Academy Awards. I’ve been blogging about the experience. I have come to regret this life choice. It’s been a long time since I posted about my Epic Film Quest – my journey / pitiful attempt at watching all…
Watching the 1952 Best Picture winner The Greatest Show on Earth is just like going to the circus – which is a lot of fun to watch on screen if you don’t think about all that animal cruelty and junk. (Wouldn’t it have been great to live in the 50’s when you didn’t have to worry…
If a friend or reader was going to try to follow my footsteps in the trek to watch every single Best Picture winner in the history of forever, I would probably advise that they sell their TV, slap themselves in the face, and run away from home. Regardless, this blogger is trudging forward and probably…
It was really generous of Gravity to let some other films win a few shiny gold men. The Alfonso Cuarón-directed film took home honors for Cuarón (Best Director), Best Original Score, Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Visual Effects. Despite winning the most Oscars, 12 Years a Slave…
Holy hell, the Oscars came up fast! This Sunday, March 2, the 86th annual Academy Awards will air on ABC and you know the deal – red carpet at 7, ceremony at 8, yada yada yada. Semi-funny-woman Ellen DeGenerous will host (who is likable, but oftentimes, safe). Winners will be declared, and losers will get…