You know what I haven’t said about a movie review in a long time… “well, I guess that was a movie.” Usually when I say that, it’s when there’s a movie coming out that I feel like has a lot of expectations behind it, that seemed like maybe it was going to fail and which…
Tag: oscars
Movies
Mav’s Big Fucking Oscar Predictions List – 2018 (Why can’t my favorite movie win?)
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Movies
Oscar Season Catch-Up (a Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri review)
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Gender & Sex, Movies, Race & Class
Hidden Figures, Visible Baiting: The game of imitation in Hollywood biopics.
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Movies, Race & Class, Rants
Mav’s Big Fucking Oscar Predictions List – 2016 (#OscarsSoWhite Edition)
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If you’re the kind of person who reads the random stuff that I write, chances are you’re also the kind of person who thinks the Oscars are stupid. Really, most people think the Oscars are stupid. They always have. This is the 88th Academy Awards, which means for 87 years, people have complained that he wrong movies…
Movies
Mav’s Big Fucking Oscar Predictions List (aka, the Great Hollywood Orgy – 2015)
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Not everything I say can be me ranting about ridiculous racist advertising or sexist prom dress rules. Sometimes I want to talk about something fun. And so… the Academy Awards. I’m weird. I love the Oscars. I always have. People argue with me about how it’s a meaningless self-congratulatory Hollywood circle jerk. And they’re right. It…