This past year, I was invited to join the new international group of the Celebrity Film Awards. Founded by Walter Nicoletti, this fine group completed their first awards cycle announcing their winners in a streaming YouTube presentation. I was among the enlisted award presenters. The video package is excellent and I’m both proud and excited to represent Walter’s organization. Enjoy!
Read Moreby Lewis Robinson
At an elemental level, movies are simply a series of images woven together. Skilled filmmakers carefully select striking pictures to anchor their narratives and navigate through from one to the next with an orienting sense of reality. While that may sound very heady and organic, it’s simply another way of saying great movies are made of iconic images.
Read Moreby Andrew Adams
Movie nights are great occasions. Whether you invite a few friends over or just have your own private affair, they're the perfect excuse to eat junk food and grab a drink while laughing at terrible jokes. But it doesn't always go so smoothly so here are 5 tips for how to create the perfect movie night.
Read MoreFor their 53rd episode, armored film critics, cryogenically-sealed dads, and fix-it-all teachers Will Johnson and Don Shanahan have invited Seattle film critic and Feelin' Film podcast host Aaron White for a knockdown/drag-out shouting match over the 2016 Chris Pratt-Jennifer Lawrence star vehicle Passengers. Mr. White holds it in high regard while our CHF hosts play the garbagemen looking for trash. This might the best collection of rants and arguments the podcast has ever produced to date!
Read Moreby Lewis Robinson
There are some movies that have been called classics over the years that don't really stand up to the hype. Others become cult classics due to their popularity growing over time, while others will stay on the Top 10 lists for years to come. The Aviator is one of the most recent movies to be deemed a classic by many lists, but does it deserve that categorization?
Read MoreDuring awards season, no one can escape the pop culture buzz around which nominated movies, directors, or actors will bag the Oscar. But do all those movie nominations and reviews have a real impact on the movies people see in theaters or at home? As part of the DISH promise to “tune in to you,” USDISH went and found out. We asked one thousand American adults what they think of movie reviews, nominations, and awards.
Read Moreby Lisa Walker
If your relationship has experienced a rough patch in the wake of addiction, it will take some time to heal. Broken trust, emotional pain, and physical health issues are all significant concerns caused by addiction. For the relationship to achieve full recovery, there’s a long road ahead that includes individual therapy sessions, follow-up meetings, and couples counseling. You will also need quality time together.
Read Moreby Lewis Robinson
The movie-going experience can be vastly different from one person to the next. In fact, depending on the day, even the same person might be in the mood for a mindless adventure, a clever heist, or an uplifting biopic. Movies can allow us to escape reality or confront dark corners or ourselves and our society that we might prefer not to acknowledge.
Read Moreby Adrian Johansen
Everyone loves a good scandal on the big screen. Heist movies are always popular. Thrillers never go out of style. Fictional tales of celebrities and political figures in hot water draw in huge audiences. But, what about movies that depict real-life scandals? Plenty of films are based on true stories. Although many take some creative licenses, popular movies like The Big Short, American Hustle, The Informant!, and even Erin Brockovich have given moviegoers a peek into real-life scandals that changed the course of history in one way or another.
Read MoreLast night, the Hollywood Critics Association, founded by Scott Menzel, bestowed their fifth annual film awards in Los Angeles at the Avalon Hollywood. I am a newly elected member of this fine group and I’m endlessly impressed by the quality, impact, and diversity of this year’s winners. CODA was the Best Picture recipient next to acting winners Andrew Garfield, Kristen Stewart, Troy Kotsur, and Ariana DeBose. The HCA put on an excellent event. Someday, you’ll find me at that awards show covering them in person! Someday!
Read MoreFor their 52nd episode, eye-liner wearing film critics, non-murdered dads, and nocturnal teachers Will Johnson and Don Shanahan have landed the big one! Folks have been waiting years for The Batman reboot from Matt Reeves starring Robert Pattinson, or Bobby Bats as the cool people call him. We stay spoiler-free for our opening five-minute turns and go FULL SPOILERS after the break for the full discussion. See where Defender Don and Marvel Shill Will fall on this new incarnation dressed in black.
Read MoreNot to sound like a barista at a coffee shop, but we’ve reached a point after 83 years of character history across innumerable pages and screens that one has to ask, “How do you take your Batman?” Do you need emblematic cream, sugar, ice, extra caffeine, froth, or some similar fancy twist? If you take it black, filmmaker Matt Reeves has a trenta special called The Batman with your name on it.
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