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…
Two more Best Pictures are in the can—Patton (1970) and A Man for All Seasons (1966). And I have just one film left in my quest to watch all #DemBestPictureWinners. I had just got done backpedaling on my initial feels re: war films (that I’m completely over them) with my post about Wings—an adorable, well-paced…
There are no faces I’d rather stare at for two hours than Emma Stone’s and Ryan Gosling’s. In La La Land, the two beauts play a couple of dreamers who start off on the wrong foot, yet fall in love all while trying to pursue their dreams. (You can almost “yada yada yada” the plot when explaining…
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…
The latest stop on my quest to watch every single Best Picture winner involved some Kevin Costner butt. A LOT of Kevin Costner butt, actually. In Dances with Wolves (directed by The Bodyguard, himself), Costner plays Union Army lieutenant John J. Dunbar who travels to the American frontier to find a military post after narrowly…
The 1954 Best Picture winner was the crime drama On the Waterfront starring Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb (12 Angry Men), and Rod Steiger (In the Heat of the Night). And damn did Brando bring out his major Brando-ness. I mean, Holy Brando! The dude can just stand there being all Brando-y…