Trailer Drop: “The Light Between Oceans”
Rumored to potentially hit in 2015, Derek Cianfrance’s literary adaptation of The Light Between Oceans has finally released a trailer. It stars this year’s Oscar nominees (and ubiquitous 2015 staples)...
View ArticleOscar Cat!
I’m not just joining the prediction game, but this cat is too! Even our furry friend struggles to figure out some categories, just like the rest of us. But what does Oscar Cat think is winning Best...
View ArticleOscar – The Morning After
What a night, what a lovely night! And with that, we can put this Mad Max: Fury Road quote to bed. I’ll be wrapping up everything Oscar for filmmixtape with this post, but be sure to check out my...
View ArticleThe 10 Guiltiest Pleasures of RuPaul’s Drag Race
Welcome to the 8 Days of RuPaul’s Drag Race! ♫ This is the beginning, the beginning ♫ Never mind that detour – I’m starting things off with a celebration of everything we adore (“party”) in this show...
View ArticleRuPaul’s Best Friend Race – Our Favorite Squirrelfriends
Hey, squirrel friends! The 8 Days of Drag Race continues after yesterday’s Top 10 Guiltiest Pleasures. Today is about something we all need to survive – everybody say “LOVE”! One of the most important...
View ArticleA Lipsync for Your Life Midweek Mixtape
There haven’t been any recent Midweek Mixtapes, so what better time to bring it back for the 8 Days of RuPaul’s Drag Race! This week’s playlist also some wishful thinking for this season’s Lipsync For...
View ArticleRemembering the First Eliminated Queens
After being chosen for RuPaul’s Drag Race, the first objective on every participating queen’s mind is DON’T GET SENT HOME FIRST. You can read the tea leaves as to which season eight queen gets that...
View ArticleMay the Best Woman Win – The 10 Best Challenges
The challenges on RuPaul’s Drag Race don’t just serve to eliminate the queens lacking the charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent it takes to be America’s next drag superstar, but they also push the...
View ArticleWinning Isn’t Everything – Drag Race’s Successful Losers
The dirtiest secret of RuPaul’s Drag Race is that sometimes winning doesn’t matter. Being the best at a competition and having a storyline primed for reality television doesn’t always equate to being...
View ArticleIn Review!: “The Witch”
Winner of Best Director at last year’s Sundance Film Festival for former production designer and debut wunderkind Robert Eggers, The Witch is a jaw-dropper about a pre-revolutionary colonial family’s...
View ArticleHit Me With Your Best Shot!: “Ghostbusters”
The Film Experience’s Hit Me With Your Best Shot is back! Perfectly timed to the release of the reboot trailer, the kick off for the series’ seventh season is comedy classic Ghostbusters. I was...
View ArticleIn Praise of Michelle Visage
For the penultimate installment of The 8 Days of Drag Race, it’s time to share some love for the queen’s biggest champion: Michelle Visage. The show may be in RuPaul’s namesake, but Drag Race‘s...
View ArticleHighest Hopes for Rupaul’s Drag Race S8
It’s tonight, kids! I hope this has been a fun lead up to the new season, but be sure to catch up to any 8 Days of RuPaul’s Drag Race posts you may have missed before watching tonight’s premiere!:...
View ArticleICYMI The 8 Days of RuPaul’s Drag Race
Thanks for joining us for The 8 Days of RuPaul’s Drag Race! I hope you all enjoyed the premiere as I did! (“I’m going to tell you a story about FLATS…”) – here’s hoping we have another great one on...
View ArticleHit Me With Your Best Shot!: “Atonement”
One day I’ll be able to revisit Joe Wright’s Atonement without losing composure, but not today. Atonement remains an emotional powerhouse almost a decade after release, its perspective on regret and...
View ArticleThe Best Performances of the Decade – So Far
Earlier this week, Robert MacFarlane asked the Twitter void for the greatest performance of this decade now we’ve reached the midpoint to delightful results. Many of these picks came from films...
View ArticleIn Review!: “Hello, My Name Is Doris”
In what feels like a dreadfully long overdue return to comedy, Sally Field is the complete charmer we’ve always known her to be in 2015 SXSW hit Hello, My Name is Doris. Her recent career successes...
View ArticleHit Me With Your Best Shot!: “Zardoz”
Well, Happy (early) April Fools Day! I skipped out on last week’s Daredevil Hit Me With Your Best Shot (you have no idea how behind on television I am) and came back to a bit of an Easter egg. Or just...
View ArticleHit Me With Your Best Shot!: “Roman Holiday”
I’m trying to keep myself accountable this year to catching up to classics that I’ve embarrassingly never seen – The Apartment (swoon), Paths of Glory, The Conversation, more to come that have...
View ArticleTrailer Drop!: “Swiss Army Man”
Sundance’s most divisive and notorious competition entry from this year’s festival, Swiss Army Man, is coming this summer and just got its first trailer. The film features Daniel Radcliffe as a farting...
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