By Abb Jones The Reelness Early Monday morning, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will announce its nominations for the 2020 Oscars. Based on our projections below, we should expect to see a pretty even distribution this year, with The Irishman likely to lead the field with a projected nine nominations, followed by a projected […]
by Abb Jones The Reelness 2019 was a surprisingly good year for quality movies – 17 theatrical releases received a grade of A+ or A by The Reelness. (Not too shabby, Hollywood.) Among those making our top 10: films about real life events, a couple of comedies, a couple of inspiring documentaries, and even a […]
By Abb Jones The Reelness Congratulations Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway – the big “winners” of our 10 Worst Movies of 2019 – each with two starring appearances on our list – one of them in a movie they did together! This year’s 10 worst list features an array of genres – among them, a […]
By Abb Jones The Reelness With just three weeks until The Academy announces its Oscar nominees, we thought it would be fun to predict which five songs from the 15 song shortlist are likely to get nominated for Best Original Song. Admittedly, this year’s field of competitors is not the strongest, and puzzlingly, some really […]
By Abb Jones The Reelness Now that we’ve seen Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the finale to the 42 year Star Wars saga, we thought it would be fun to rank all of the Star Wars films (the nine Skywalker saga films, plus the two anthology films – Rogue One and Solo) from first to […]
By Abb Jones The Reelness Earlier this week, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences unveiled its Oscars shortlists, the narrowed-down lists of potential nominees, in several award categories. Starting January 2nd, Academy members will have five days to narrow down the lists below to the five nominees in each category that will be […]
By Abb Jones The Reelness Amy Adams is channeling some serious Alfred Hitchcock/Rear Window vibes in the new preview for her upcoming, twist-filled, psychological thriller, about an agoraphobic woman, incapable of leaving her apartment, who sees something sinister happen inside her neighbor’s home across the street. The film from director Joe Wright (Darkest Hour) and adapted […]
Top Gun: Maverick will be spiraling into a theater near you next summer. The new trailer for the long-awaited sequel to the 1986 blockbuster was released today. In the film, Cruise’s Pete “Maverick” Mitchell is now a flight instructor training a new generation of pilots. Directed by Joseph Kosinski (Oblivion), Top Gun: Maverick will star […]
January is usually the cinematic graveyard where bad films, typically horror movies that studios have deemed likely box office bombs, go to die a quick death. But next month’s horror line-up looks a bit busier (and could it be… even more promising??) than in recent years, with FIVE horror films hitting U.S. theaters over six […]
Nominations have been announced for the 77th Golden Globes. In the film category, Marriage Story picked up a leading six nods, with Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman and Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood each getting five. In the television category, it is HBO’s Chernobyl, Netflix’s The Crown and Unbelievable each getting four nominations. […]