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Best Picture Nominees 2025
I have been in a frenzy this awards season, consuming all of the award shows, picking my favorites and checking out movies I’ve never heard of. I’ve even requested seat filler positions hoping to one day join in the fun. I recognize none of this matters in the big picture of our world right now,…
Nickel Boys
Nickel Boys is based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead. It follows the bond of two young African American boys who are sent to an abusive reform school in Florida in the 1960s. While fictional, Nickel Boys is based on true accounts of the horrors of these schools in the Jim Crow…
I’m Still Here
I’m Still Here is based on a true story and the autobiography Ainda Estou Aqui written by Marcelo Paiva. He shares what his family endured during the Brazilian military dictatorship in the early seventies. His father, former congressman Rubens Paiva (Selton Mello) disappears leaving his mother Eunice (Fernanda Torres) to wonder what happened to him…
A Real Pain
A Real Pain is written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg who also co-stars along with Kieran Culkin. Nominated for Best Original Screenplay (Eisenberg) and Best Supporting Actor (Culkin), A Real Pain follows two cousins as they reunite to travel with a tour group to Poland to honor their late grandmother and connect with their Jewish…
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