The Race For The 93rd Best Picture Oscar: The Contenders
The favorite to win Best Picture Oscar is a cursed place to be since the preferential ballot and the expansion of nomination slots became a reality.
Author: Luis A. Mendez
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The Race For The 93rd Best Picture Oscar: The Nomination Stage
Of course to win the race for the Best Picture Oscar one must get nominated, so here are my top 25 contenders for the big award’s nomination
Tampa Bay: The Hub Of The Sports World
Tampa Bay has been able to claim the Stanley Cup Finals, the World Series, the Super Bowl, and Wrestlemania in less than a year
Electoral Trends: Into The Biden Era
Which party’s electoral trends will benefit during the Biden era? Honestly, I can see trends on either side continuing or snapping away from either party
Roman Reigns: Wrestling’s Top Star Finally Lives Up To The Hype
Some may ask “Who on God’s green and beautiful Earth is Roman Reigns and why did he have a better 2020 than most of us?”
2020 In Film: The Virus Complicates Cinema
Now as 2020 starts to churn towards the end, it’s time for another report card for the film industry.
Election 2020 Chapter 6: The End Of The Road
Understanding these results in three parts: the polling miss, the fundamentals of the race, and the short-term future of American politics
Classic Horror Films: The Best From The Original Universal Monsters
I figured I’d rank my top ten favorite classic horror films to watch in the coming weeks of this year’s fright season.
Election 2020 Chapter 5: Towards The Homestretch…
I suspect the movement we’ll see from here will be minimal, meaning Biden will have many paths to 270 versus Trump’s little room for error.
What If The Expected Actually Happens?
In which I argue for the possibility that maybe, just maybe, the expected…actually happens and maybe even smoothly at that.
A Binge Of Cinematic History Chapter 2: The Birth Of Hollywood
Most Hollywood histories begin in the 1920s. However, the story of Hollywood and its coming domination in cinema truly begins in 1914
A Binge Of Cinematic History Chapter 1: The Dawn Of Cinema
“The Dawn Of Cinema” or the pre-Hollywood years. And amazingly at over a hundred years old there’s some short films from this time that have stuck with us.
Prologue To A Binge Of Cinematic History
That first ingredient for the recipe of having cinema come to existence happened could be argued to have taken place in several moments of mankind’s past.
Election 2020 Chapter 4: The White Heat Of The Summer Campaign
Since I last wrote about this race in April, the President’s chances have only gotten worse and a blue wave is now in play as much as a Trump squeaker is.
100 Favorite Films To Recommend Part 10: The 2010s
And here we are. After ten long weeks I have reached the end of this series on my favorite films from each year in the last hundred years of cinema.
100 Favorite Films To Recommend Part 9: The 2000s
In the 1920s, the film industry in America and eventually across the globe had grown large enough to become an important part of the American past time. That was followed by four straight decades...
100 Favorite Films To Recommend Part 8: The 1990s
After a decade of auteur focused film-making in the seventies helped bridge the path past its golden age, and a blockbuster and franchise dominated eighties helped it to start making big money at the...
100 Favorite Films To Recommend Part 7: The 1980s
The eighties? This decade’s films attracted me with over-the-top adventure and bone-chilling horror with some comedy mixed in and one drama.
100 Favorite Films To Recommend Part 6: The 1970s
So with all that griping out of the way, time for some positivist so let’s take a look at some of the best films the seventies had to offer
100 Favorite Films To Recommend Part 5: The 1960s
I’m now half-way through this series and I truly hope I have given out some new titles for others to discover as I go through this list.
