2017 Academy Awards Predictions

It’s never fun when it feels like something is going to be a clean sweep. La La Land, poised to clean house at the 89th Academy Awards is nominated for 14 awards, tying with All About Eve and Titanic for most nominations for a single film. Whether or not it deserves that, well, this isn’t a …

2015 Academy Award Nominations

Awards season is in full swing as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced the nominees for the Academy Awards this morning.  The standouts certainly are “Birdman,” and “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” which tied for 9 nominations. With 8 nominations, “The Theory of Everything,” follows in a close second, and “American Sniper,” with …

The LonelyReviewer Show: Episode 11: Ketchin’ Up

After a winter hiatus, the LonelyReviewer Show returns! We play catch up with awards season, what we’ve watched and what we thought! Enjoy the episode below, download directly here, subscribe in iTunes, and for you non-iTunes people, you can find the feed here! [ca_audio url=”http://www.lonelyreviewer.com/podcast/episode11catchingup.mp3″ width=”600″ height=”27″ css_class=”codeart-google-mp3-player” autoplay=”false”] The LonelyReviewer Show is produced in …

2014 Oscar Predictions

The 86th Annual Academy Awards are this weekend, and it looks to be another interesting race for the nominees. It was a hard one to finalize my predictions on, but I feel like I’m putting forward a decent list. Back a few years ago, “Hugo” picked up most of the technical achievements, and “The Artist,” …

85th Academy Awards Nominees

The 85th Annual Academy Award nominees have been announced this morning via Seth Macfarlane and Emma Stone – much of the nominations are obvious, and only a few surprises. I was sad to see Leonardo DiCaprio snubbed again, this time for his work in Django. Also, notably absent are Ben Affleck for Argo, PT Anderson for …