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Oscars time! And man oh man, I honestly owe the number of nominated films I've watched beforehand largely to my Cinemark Movie Club membership, because I have often watched one, if not two, movies per weekend. I've also become a devoted listener of The Big Picture podcast, which has nudged me towards films that weren't showing in theatres in my area yet. (I live SO CLOSE to Seattle, and yet am I willing to drive out there to see films that haven't gone into wide release yet? NOPE.)

As per usual, I have colored the names of films I watched before the nomination announcements on January 24 in green, and films I watched after the nominations in blue. Films I opted not to watch are struck through. (Sorry, Society of Snow, but I'mma skip the trauma and cannibalism.)

Also as per usual, I've re-ordered the films according to how I would rank them, and included clips that I felt were relevant. I opted to just not rank films that I didn't watch for whatever reason. And some of these categories were REALLY HARD, y'all. Just gorgeous stuff all around, I must say.



( And the nominees are accompanied by a TON of vid clips. )

That's right, it's BARBENHEIMER time. Here are my quick reactions to the…*counts*...twelve films I watched in August.



( Haunted Mansion, Spy Kids, Oppenheimer, Barbie, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Blue Beetle, The Last Voyage of the Demeter, Meg 2: The Trench, Gran Turismo: Based on a True Story, Golda. )

I love summer movie season. I love living ten minutes away from a movie theatre. What a time to be alive!



( The Hating Game, Big George Foreman, Love Again, The Green Knight, Five Easy Pieces, Fast X, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, You Hurt My Feelings, The Flash, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, The Little Mermaid (2023), Elemental, Asteroid City, No Hard Feelings, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. )

We've reached the time of year--long days and mild weather--when I will go see pretty much any film that's not a horror movie. I am largely omnivorous.



Although I've got to confess: I did not diligently take notes on the miscellaneous films I watched this month, so it's mostly bullet-ish points to go along with the usual GIFs.

( Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, A Thousand and One, Suzume, Air, Renfield, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Chevalier, L'Avventura, Star Wars: Episode VI--Return of the Jedi, Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret. )

Oscars season! I actually made a good dent on most of the films this year, though (as detailed below), I did not catch all of them. But still!



Movies I saw before the Oscar nominations announcement on January 24 are marked in green, and ones I saw after the announcements are marked in blue.

Movies of which I consider myself a conscientious objector are struck through. (No shade, Brendan Fraser and Hong Chau, I'm sure you were great, but nothing I've heard about The Whale makes it sound like anything I want to see. And while I'm sure Women Talking is good, not to mention Ana de Armas's work in Blonde, I try to avoid films that specifically focus on sexual assault.)

I've re-ordered the films according to how I would rank them, and included clips and pics where I felt they were relevant. I opted to just not rank films that I didn't watch for whatever reason.

( Herein lie many embedded videos. )

The time has come, y'all! OSCAR WATCHING SEASON. I do like January as a movie-watching month--it's a good mix of genre stuff and awards bait stuff, and sometimes those two things even overlap.



( Willow, Black Adam, Glass Onion, Top Gun Maverick, The Banshees of Inisherin, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, RRR, Elvis, Fire of Love, All Quiet on the Western Front, Shortcomings, Fancy Dance. )

While I didn't watch all that many movies these past couple of months, the ones I did watch were pretty excellent. Action galore! #RepresentationMatters!



( Thor: Love and Thunder, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Space Sweepers, Vengeance, Easter Sunday, Prey. )

It's OSCAR SEASON, baby. I spent my entire Spring Break watching all the films I hadn't already seen and it was so worth it.

I'll probably post a full Oscars index post tomorrow or Sunday. Anyway. Onward!

( Drive My Car, Summer of Soul, West Side Story, Licorice Pizza, Nightmare Alley, The Hand of God, The Mitchells vs. the Machines, CODA, Attica, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Coming 2 America, Parallel Mothers, Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom, Four Good Days, Writing With Fire, Cyrano. )