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Academy Awards 2026 nominees predictions: all categories (2nd ROUND)

BEST PICTURE While I am quite optimistic and confident about the 8 first contenders, I am not so sure about the #9 and #10 seats. Neon is having an amazing year with Sentimental Value , It Was Just an Accident and The Secret Agent doing great with the awards bodies, but so it's No Other Choice . Can the distributor get 4 (!!!!) films in the final Best Picture nominees shortlist? If not, I consider No Other Choice as the most fragile of the bunch in the awards conversation. The final spot: I always bet on a blockbuster, but this year's reception of blockbuster has been kinda... lackluster actually. I had Wicked: For Good , but the second part is considerably less acclaimed than the first movie and even audiences recognize the songs are not as epic and the narrative is not as interesting... Can it get enough #1 votes? My guess is "not". Then I considered Avatar: Fire and Ash , which was received with underwhelming reviews, but it is still way too early to get the aud...

Golden Globes 2026 nominees predictions

Last minute Golden Globes 2026 nominees predictions... but here they are: BEST MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA Frankenstein , Netflix Hamnet , Focus Features Sentimental Value , Neon Sinners , Warner Bros. The Secret Agent , Neon Weapons , Warner Bros. Alt .: It Was Just An Accident , Neon BEST ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA Jeremy Allen White , Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere Michael B. Jordan , Sinners Joel Edgerton , Train Dreams Dwayne Johnson , The Smashing Machine Wagner Moura , The Secret Agent Dylan O'Brien , Twinless Alt .: Will Arnett , Is This Thing On? BEST ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA Jessie Buckley , Hamnet Jennifer Lawrence , Die My Love Lucy Liu , Rosemead Renate Reinsve , Sentimental Value Sidney Sweeney , Christy Tessa Thompson , Hedda Alt .: Julia Roberts , After the Hunt BEST MOTION PICTURE IN A MOTION PICTURE - COMEDY OR MUSICAL Bugonia , Focus Features Marty Supreme , A24 No Other Choice , Neon One Battle After Another , Warner Bros. Wake Up Dead Man: A...

TINY REVIEWS: "Wicked", "No Other Choice", "It Was Just an Accident", "Train Dreams" and "After the Hunt"

WICKED: FOR GOOD It suffers from the fact the second part plot isn't as interesting as the first one's and the songs are much less iconic, but WICKED: FOR GOOD still delivers an entertaining and engaging cinematic experience, mostly because of a duo made in Heaven (Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande doing even better than in the previous movie, specially Grande who gets the opportunity to explore her character deeply). Great costume and production design, an improvement in cinematography and some interesting editing (see "The Girl in the Bubble" scenes) sure compensate the pretty average VFX work, . John M. Chu proves once again he loves the material and it shows. Not as good as the first one (I found Michelle Yeoh particularly bad in this one to be honest), but it still good enough to enjoy and be amazed by some parts. Their rendition of "For Good" got me crying almost as much as Elphaba and Glinda. RATING: 6,5/10 NO OTHER CHOICE Led by a mesmerizing perform...

The 250 Best Performances of the Last 25 Years (2000-2024)

The year 2025 marks the beginning of a new quarter of the second millenium and I decided to make a little retrospective and analyse some of the best and most iconic performances of the last 25 years. Some earned their performer the recognition of a career, others aged like fine wine and there are some I feel that are yet to be discovered, little gems not every moviegoer knows. From 2000 to 2024 I tried to pick ONLY 250 (I know it seems a lot, but in such a vast and rich medium, I felt it was an hard task). First, my 12 honorable mentions and then I will start the countdown as I will be updating this post with the performances I picked, with a little review of each one. HONORABLE MENTIONS Sissy Spacek , In the Bedroom (2001) Audrey Tautou , Amélie (2001) Reese Witherspoon , Legally Blonde (2001) Nicole Kidman , The Hours (2002) Don Cheadle , Hotel Rwanda (2004) Carmen Maura , Volver (2006) Samantha Morton , Control (2007) Benicio Del Toro , Che (2008) Mickey Rourke , The ...