Photo Credit: REUTERS/Mike Blake Well, sports fans, it's the end of the 2025-2026 award season. It was wild and wooly, but we made it. I have to say that it was the most action packed award season that I can remember. Everything started off going one predictable way, then, with one careless comment or unexpected win at another award ceremony, suddenly the field was way open. The Academy Awards were over a week ago, and, as everyone predicted, the Best Picture winner was P

Another great has fallen. Robert Duvall, one of my favorite actors, as passed at age 95. You can probably guess the movie that I first took notice of him. He was very quiet in the role of Tom Hagen in The Godfather. He was Don Corleone's right hand man - his cconsigliere. If you'll notice, when Al Pacino's Michael took his father's place as Godfather, he wasn't loud and impetuous like his older brother Sonny (James Caan). He was quiet and thoughtful - like Tom Hagen. A

Screenshot from the Award announcement with Danielle Brooks and Lewis Pullman. The 2026 Academy Award nominees have been announced!   For once I predicted correctly: horror IS going to have its year!  I say “for once” because I’m kind of hit or miss with predictions in general.  Who is going to win the Super Bowl?  Who will be the next President of the United States?  Is it going to be a boy or a girl?  Don’t ask me any of these questions, because I don’t have that kind of ps

Timothée Chalamet in Marty Supreme (2025). Credit: A24 We have had a few awards ceremonies already and the controversy has begun anew. The controversy is "movies with predominantly Black casts and/or with Black directors don't get any respect at awards ceremonies." It is said that "Black movies" don't get asses in the seats. That turned out to be untrue, considering Sinners' $368.3 million box office (the movie cost about $90-100 million). Then the question became "do box