We present our 2024 Best Picture Contenders Survey! The nominations were announced on January 23, 2024. Oppenheimer led with 13 nominations, followed by Poor Things and Killers of the Flower Moon with 11 and 10, respectively.
We present our Dangerous Minds/Lean on Me/Stand and Deliver Review! All three of these movies feature high school students in need of good teachers and prinicpals.
We present our Hustle and Flow/Black Snake Moan/Dolemite is My Name Review! All three of these movies were directed by Craig Brewer. His 2005 movie Hustle & Flow won the Audience Award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and achieved commercial success, along with an Academy Award for Best Original Song, “It’s Hard out Here for a Pimp”.
We present our Madame Web 2024 Movie Review! Madame Web is a 2024 American superhero film based on Marvel Comics featuring the character of the same name.
We present our 2024 Best Animated Feature Nominations discussion! The Best Animated Feature nominees are all very different coming-of-age stories: Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” (Sony), Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Boy and the Heron” (Studio Ghibli/GKids), Pixar’s first love story, “Elemental,” Annapurna Animation/Netflix’s queer breakthrough “Nimona,” and “Robot Dreams” (Neon), the bittersweet bromance from Spanish director Pablo Berger (“Blancanieves”).
We present our Hazbin Hotel 2024 Season 1 TV Review! Hazbin Hotel is an American adult animated musical comedy television series created by Vivienne “VivziePop” Medrano.
We present our Car Wash/Brewsters Millions/The Toy Review! These three movies start comic legend, Richard Pryor.
We present our Lisa Frankenstein 2024 Movie Review! Lisa Frankenstein is a 2024 American comedy horror film directed by Zelda Williams, in her feature-length directorial debut, and written by Diablo Cody.
We present our What’s Love Got to Do with it/I Wanna Dance With Somebody/Respect Movie Review! All of these movies feature stories about famous black female singers.
We present our Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 1 Review! Percy Jackson and the Olympians is an American fantasy television series created by Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg for Disney+, based on the book series of the same name by Riordan.