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Best Picture Series — How Green Was My Valley (1941) Review

3/28/2025

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Evan D.

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As a project this year we are taking a trip through time to revisit all of the Best Picture winners in history, Wings to Anora. How Green Was My Valley is the fourteenth film in that series, to see all the other Best Picture reviews, click here.

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Best Picture Series — Rebecca (1940) Review

3/28/2025

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Evan D.

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As a project this year we are taking a trip through time to revisit all of the Best Picture winners in history, Wings to Anora. Rebecca is the thirteenth film in that series, to see all the other Best Picture reviews, click here.

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Snow White Review

3/21/2025

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Evan D.

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Rachel Zegler in Snow White (2025)
We are well beyond the point where anyone can reasonably expect much from a live action adaptation of a classic piece of Disney animation. Dozens of these glorified cash grabs have been dished out over the last decade and absolutely none of them have been good enough to even justify their own creation, let alone build on the original stories. And those were the easy ones, the slam dunks. Aladdin, Mulan, The Little Mermaid. These were the slam dunks and they ended up air balls. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs came with layers of trouble when adapting for audiences nearly a century later. Snow White (2025) tries to adjust for the dated source material and ends up a disaster anyways. 

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Best Picture Series — The Life of Emile Zola (1937) Review

3/18/2025

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Evan D.

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As a project this year we are taking a trip through time to revisit all of the Best Picture winners in history, Wings to Anora. The Life of Emile Zola is the tenth film in that series, to see all the other Best Picture reviews, click here.

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Best Picture Series — Gone With the Wind (1939) Review

3/11/2025

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Evan D.

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As a project this year we are taking a trip through time to revisit all of the Best Picture winners in history, Wings to Anora. Gone With the Wind is the twelfth film in that series, to see all the other Best Picture reviews, click here.

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Note, due to a streaming issue Best Picture #10 The Life of Emile Zola will be posted at a later date

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Best Picture Series — You Cant Take it With You (1938) Review

3/10/2025

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Evan D.

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As a project this year we are taking a trip through time to revisit all of the Best Picture winners in history, Wings to Anora. You Can’t Take it With You is the eleventh film in that series, to see all the other Best Picture reviews, click here.

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Note, due to a streaming issue Best Picture #10 The Life of Emile Zola will be posted at a later date

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Best Picture Series — The Great Ziegfeld (1936) Review

3/7/2025

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Evan D.

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As a project this year we are taking a trip through time to revisit all of the Best Picture winners in history, Wings to Anora. The Great Ziegfeld is the ninth film in that series, to see all the other Best Picture reviews, click here.

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Best Picture Series — Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) Review

3/7/2025

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Evan D.

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As a project this year we are taking a trip through time to revisit all of the Best Picture winners in history, Wings to Anora. Mutiny on the Bounty is the eighth film in that series, to see all the other Best Picture reviews, click here.

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Best Picture Series — It Happened One Night (1934) Review

2/10/2025

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Evan D. 

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As a project this year we are taking a trip through time to revisit all of the Best Picture winners in history, Wings to Wicked??? (hopefully not Wicked.(Oh god it might be Emilia Pérez, maybe Wicked isn’t so bad.(Okay so we may have dodged the Emilia Pérez bullet.)) It Happened One Night is the seventh film in that series, to see all the other Best Picture reviews, click here.

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Wolf MAn Review

1/28/2025

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Evan D.

Shortly after being attacked and infected by a wild animal in the woods, Blake (Christopher Abbott) looks to console his daughter Ginger (Matilda Firth,) who was understandably shaken by the events. He apologizes, explaining that sometimes fathers try so hard to protect their children from scars that “they end up being the ones scarring them.” For the director that smartly turned The Invisible Man into a meditation on believing women, this brief moment felt like the first thread of an idea that never fully forms in Wolf Man. 

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