The Top Ten Oscar Nomination Snubs of All Time
In the wake of the internet’s explosion after BARBIE was overlooked for two key Oscar nominations, Paul Douglas Moomjean looks at the biggest snubs of all time.
The Dark Knight
Movie Review – Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan has finally been able to merge his sense of visual technique and high minded science.
Oscar Rant 2021
Paul Preston’s annual rant on the categories and his Top Ten films of the Year for 2020
Best Supporting Actor Rankings 1993-2017
Paul Douglas Moomjean breaks down the Best Supporting Actor winners of the last twenty-five years for TheMovieGuys.net on the lead-up to Oscars week.
The Problem With Best Popular Film
The motion picture Academy has postponed creating a “Best Popular Film” category. Paul Preston explains why it should never see the light of day.
PIC of the Year – 2001: A Space Odyssey + My Christmas Wish List
Ray Schillaci’s PIC of the week at TheMovieGuys.net for 12/20/18 is also his PIC of the Year – 2001. Also, Ray gives up his Christmas Blu-Ray wish list.
Anything DC Can Do, Marvel Can Do Better
This title doesn’t really frame the Marvel/DC dichotomy correctly because it lists Marvel as following DC, which has never, ever happened.
Movie Review – The Lego Batman Movie
I will risk sounding like the old man on the porch, but it was too much.
Batting .1000 – Hollywood’s Winning Streaks
To achieve perfection in the arts is nearly impossible because it’s a widely subjective form of expression. And yet, there are a few filmmakers who you could say come close to a perfect record in their field.
A Letter to DC and WB
The current leadership of DC is going to be the downfall of the modern superhero boom.
Batman: Movies and Games Review
THE BATMAN MOVIES…AND THE BATMAN VIDEO GAMES…REVIEWED…AT THE SAME TIME!!! (I KNOW, RIGHT?!?)
SUPERFLACK (DON’T GET DOWN ON MARVEL)
Marvel has tapped into everything that made it successful as a comic book champ, and has now translated it to film.
THE GREATEST MOVIES OF ALL TIME
The title says it all.
THE GREATEST MOVIES OF ALL TIME, PART THREE – SUPERHERO FILMS
The title says it all. Part three of The Movie Guys “Best of All Time” series looks at the greatest superhero films per year for the last forty or so years.
THE GREATEST MOVIES OF ALL TIME, PART TWO – HORROR
The title says it all. Part two of The Movie Guys “Best of All Time” series looks at the greatest horror movies per year for the last forty or so years.
THE GREATEST MOVIES OF ALL TIME, PART ONE – COMEDIES
The title says it all. Part one of The Movie Guys “Best of All Time” series looks at the greatest comedy films per year for the last forty or so years.
OSCAR RANT 2013
Paul Preston’s annual, super-thorough, no-category-left-uncovered, massive undertaking of an Oscar rant is available for you to read, print out and argue about.
COSTUME SUPERCENTER – THE TMG INTERVIEW
Movie Guy Paul Preston interviews Costume Supercenter about Halloween costumes for TheMovieGuys.net
THE SUMMER OF THE CLOWN
The Cultural Impact of Christopher Nolan’s Batman Films and How Heath Ledger Tricked You Into Believing “The Dark Knight” Was the Trilogy’s “The Empire Strikes Back”.
THE DARK KNIGHT RAISES (QUESTIONS IT CAN’T ANSWER)
Perhaps in years to come, once we’ve gotten a little more distance on it, the entire Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy will be thought of in the public mind less as an entire piece, and more along the lines of “The one with Heath Ledger in it as Joker, and the other two.”
Movie Review – The Expendables
SO much machismo is being blustered around the screen in “The Expendables”, the real expendable here is the audience.
Movie Review – Iron Man 2
“Iron Man 2” is great entertainment, and a fitting continuation of the characters’ journey.