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Continue reading →: Sundance Review: “Chasing Summer”, Josephine Decker Proves to Be an Odd Directorial Fit for Nostalgic Summer RomanceJamie’s life is as much a natural disaster as the ones she helped clean up, at least that’s how it feels in her mind. Dumped from her job working for Helpers at Home, a tornado relief program that provides humanitarian aid to disaster-torn areas, and unceremoniously dumped by her now-ex…
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Continue reading →: Review: “Send Help”, Sam Raimi’s Gleefully Gross Return to Horror Led By a Revelatory Rachel McAdamsYou can take the Raimi out of the horror, but you can’t take the horror out of the Raimi. It’s true, as one of our most diverse filmmakers, old Sam has deviated towards many different genres in his career (only his 1990s period a hard pivot from the stuff that…
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Continue reading →: 2025: Personal AwardsAs the whirlwind year of 2025 has come to an end and we continue to tackle the politically dark storm that is now 2026 with no end in sight, let’s just take a deep breath and focus on a healthy distraction: movies. Although that isn’t to say the movies themselves…
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Continue reading →: 2021: Personal Awards2021 was meant to be the rebound year after the COVID-19 pandemic and while some truly great cinema emerged by the end of the year, it seemed like audiences still weren’t ready to embrace Hollywood’s grand return until a certain web-slinger convinced them $1.9 billion otherwise. 2021 will most significantly…
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Continue reading →: Final 98th Academy Awards Nominations PredictionsLet’s just get into it. BEST PICTURE 1. One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.) 2. Sinners (Warner Bros.) 3. Hamnet (Focus Features) 4. Marty Supreme (A24) 5. Sentimental Value (NEON) 6. Frankenstein (Netflix) 7. Train Dreams (Netflix) 8. The Secret Agent (NEON) 9. Bugonia (Focus Features) 10. It Was Just…
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Continue reading →: Review: “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple”, Nia DaCosta Shrinks the Scope and Ups the Weird in Delirious SequelThe first 28 Years Later (odd to say first, given it’s the third 28 Days Later film) was a transformative cinematic experience under the maximalist eye of Danny Boyle. Misunderstood upon release by many, its unique storytelling structure peeled away from the brutality and fear and blossomed into the appreciation…
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Continue reading →: Most Anticipated Films of 2026We made it alive out of 2025! What a weird f*cking year, but it could get weirder! Nevertheless, 2026 has arrived and the amount of films to look forward to is a genuinely daunting list. Guaranteed, if you don’t have an AMC A-List pass, there’s a good chance you will…
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Continue reading →: PREDICTIONS: The Film Guild Quadfecta (SAG, DGA, PGA, & WGA)As we march forward in awards season, this week in particular is one of great importance and it’s hitting us with three big mallets in the form of Screen Actors Guild (announcing Wednesday January 7th under the stupid new name “The Actor Awards“), the Directors Guild of America (announcing Thursday…
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Continue reading →: Top 10 Best TV Series of 20251. THE REHEARSAL– Season 2 (HBO) Nathan Fielder’s jaw-dropping documentary series pushes the boundaries of what we could even imagine was humanly possible. What starts out as a peculiar nugget of an idea transforms into a death-defying spectacle that would make Tom Cruise himself sweat. The first season was a…
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Continue reading →: Review: “Song Sung Blue” Has Charm Thanks to Hudson, But Can’t Fix Tonal Whiplash and Emotional PhoninessThroughout Craig Brewer’s latest feel-good biopic, Mike Sardina (Hugh Jackman), under the persona “Lightning” begs to limit the amount of times he performs “Sweet Caroline” with his wife and musical partner Claire (Kate Hudson, AKA “Thunder”). The issue is he fronts a Neil Diamond cover band and, well, as one…
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EDITOR, SITE WRITER
Jakob Kolness
Minnesota Film Critics Association Member. Graduate of Film Studies, writer, novelist, filmmaker.
CURRENT 2026 OSCAR PREDICTIONS
“Bugonia”
“F1”
“Frankenstein”
“Hamnet”
“Marty Supreme”
“One Battle After Another”**
“The Secret Agent”
“Sentimental Value”
“Sinners”
“Train Dreams”
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