Tag: oscars

  • The 20 best hangout movies

    Sometimes you just want to be with a film. Quentin Tarantino is often credited with popularizing the term “hangout movie” back in a New Yorker profile where he referenced the 1959 western Rio Bravo (see #6 below). What’s a hangout movie, you ask? A movie you can chill with and return to. A movie whose…

  • The 10 best movies about sex workers

    The movies have come a long way since the days of the “hooker with a heart of gold” archetype that populated westerns and gangster flicks. Sex workers have been a mainstay of film, but their treatment has transformed dramatically over decades. World cinema’s examination of sex workers has been more realistic and ambiguous than that…

  • If I picked the Oscars – 2024 edition

    In this exercise that no one asked for, let’s imagine for a moment that I were not only a voting member of The Academy, but the ONLY voting member of the Academy. What would my nominations look like? Who would be the winners? Admittedly, determining the Oscars would be way down on my list of…