Oscars 2023 Recap + Highlights – The Good, The Bad + The WTF

Happy Post-Oscars Day, everyone!! Did you watch the ceremony last night? I wish the Oscars telecast didn't happen during daylight savings time when we actually LOST one hour :\ Anyhoo, I made my predictions at the last minute of who will win and who SHOULD win, here are my predictions post. I didn't predict ALL …

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2023 Oscars Predictions – Who Will Win, Who Should Win

Well, it's Oscars eve… and like last year, I'm down to the wire in getting my predictions as I was preoccupied the last two days. But hey, it's still Saturday night where I am and there are about 20 hours left until those Oscars envelopes are opened. This year I have actually managed to see …

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10 favorite Michelle Yeoh performances – in honor of her historic 2023 SAG Best Actress win

What a historic night!!! This award season has pulled a ton of 'firsts' for performers of Asian descent, and as an Indonesian-born critic, that is something to celebrate! I don't usually blog about SAG Awards but I'll make this post a first because of Michelle Yeoh's historic win. Thankfully the event was streamed LIVE this …

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Triangle Of Sadness (2022) Review – a satirical, queasy-inducing voyage

As the Academy Awards is a little over a month away, I'm playing catch up to all the nominated films. Admittedly, I'm not familiar with Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund's films so this is my intro to his work. Apparently, he got the inspiration for the film from his wife who's a fashion photographer which sparked …

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Music Break: Top 5 favorite 2022 film scores snubbed by Oscars

Happy Weekend, all! I'm taking a bit of a break from movie reviews as I still have the Oscars in my mind. There's still a bunch of controversies swirling around the nominations, the latest one focusing on Andrea Riseborough's nomination in the Best Actress category. Apparently, The Academy is conducting a review of the campaign …

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Musings on 2023 Oscars Nominations – The biggest snubs + surprises

Happy #OscarsNominations2023! I actually woke up exactly at 7 AM this morning to watch the LIVE announcement on my phone. I don't know why as I had never done that before but my hubby usually is up by then so I thought I'd tune in to see the presenters announce the nominees. In any case, …

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Ranking Oscars 2022 Best Picture + Acting Nominees

Can't believe we are STILL talking about the Oscars in late March. I hope they're moving the telecast back to late February next year and going forward. Well, I've talked about the Oscar nominees but I saw people were ranking the Best Picture nominees on Twitter, such as below, and I thought I'd do the …

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