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The Academy Awards 2026 Season Finale

March 16, 2026 By in Movies/Films/Flicks, TV/DVD Tags: , , , , , , , , , , Leave a comment
Conan O'Brien sitting in am empty theater, marveling at the screen and holding his hands up in surprise.

Oscars jazz hands!

Oscar season is over at last! Tonight the 98th Academy Awards were aired live on ABC and streamed live on Hulu, once again held at ye olde Dolby Theatre in Hollywood and hosted again by beloved funnyman Conan O’Brien, who didn’t screw up last year, or at the very least kept his screw-ups backstage. This year’s soiree clocked in at 224 minutes, five minutes shorter than last year’s and 27 minutes longer than Avatar: Fire and Ash. O’Brien was his usual uproarious self, taking a couple more political potshots than he did last year, before disappearing for much of the second half.

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Yes, There’s a Tribute After the “One Battle After Another” End Credits

October 5, 2025 By in Movies/Films/Flicks Tags: , , , , , , , , 2 Comments
Benicio Del Toro hands a rifle in its storage bag to Leonardo DiCaprio, who looks like a frazzled mountain man with expensive sunglasses.

“Help yourself to a sniper rifle.”

“THE NEW PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON IS THE GREATEST FILM OF OUR TIMES AND CAPTURES THE ZEITGEIST LIKE EGON SPENGLER WITH A GHOST TRAP!” screams the internet consensus for One Battle After Another, as pro critics tend to every time they’ve seen a new Anderson film at least three times at festivals. I’ve only seen six of his films (counting this one) and responded to There Will Be Blood with that sort of awe. The rest varied for me — Phantom Thread was an intriguing battle of repressed wills, but I couldn’t connect with his California ode Licorice Pizza. His tenth feature, Battle is an effectively pulse-pounding thriller that’s exactly the sort of antihero conflict I do enjoy — call it “bad guys vs. worse guys” — but somehow I thought it’d be much more complicated than it actually is. Maybe that’s on me for declining to remain Extremely Online these days.

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