The 89th Academy Awards… The Winners
Last night (or rather early this morning) marked the first time I was actually glad I had stayed up to watch the Oscars ceremony. For the most part, the ceremony […]
Tag Archives: 2016
The 89th Academy Awards… My Predictions
After the wild and crazy year that was 2015, 2016’s Oscars are looking a lot more set in stone. In a twist that surprises no one, I’m predicting La La […]
Top 10 of 2016
2016 has been over for a while, but I’m only getting to my top ten list now. I didn’t catch up to as many 2016 films in January as I […]
Hidden Figures
Katherine Gobel (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughn (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae) are all computers at NASA, tasked with performing difficult calculations for engineers inventing space travel by […]
The 89th Academy Awards… The Nominations
Ah, Oscar nominations for the films of 2016 are finally here! I feel like they announced them later this year than usual. Anyway, there are a few unwelcome surprises here, […]
La La Land
Perhaps there’s no way that the film La La Land could measure up to the idea of La La Land, an original movie musical in an age where original movie […]
Jackie
A very small part of me might be persuaded to brush off Jackie as a melodramatic women’s picture, which I hope says more about internalized sexism in our society than […]
Hail, Caesar!
I did see Hail, Caesar! all the way back in February, but didn’t get around to reviewing it then. Ten months might be a hell of a long time to […]
That’s a Wrap! on 2016
Happy New Year’s Eve everybody! As per tradition on The Soul of the Plot, here’s my year-end wrap-up post on this past year, featuring reflections on the year and a […]
Nocturnal Animals
I have been pretty excited for this movie ever since the cast was announced. Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal are two of my favorite actors working today and I was […]
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