Heading into the 94th Academy Awards, Academy President David Rubin sent a letter about changes to the upcoming Oscars broadcast. The following categories are will be presented an hour before and then have a delayed airing. Documentary Short Film Editing Makeup and Hairstyling Original Score Production Design Animated Short Live Action Short Sound The key takeaway is that eight categories will not be presented live. They will also be edited into the show in the…
"Oscars: Eight Awards To Be Tape-Delayed"Category: Opinion
Allowing fans to vote on Twitter up to twenty times a day for the Oscars Fan Favorite might just be the worst idea in the Academy’s history. Remember how they wanted to have a Best Popular Film Category a few years ago? It got nixed after the backlash but you may as well just call it Best Disney Film because more often than not, The Walt Disney Company owns the distributor. We’re in quite a…
"Oscars Fan Favorite Award Is A Terrible Idea"
Spider-Man: No Way Home would take home a Popular Film Oscar in a heartbeat but the film was never getting a Best Picture nomination. You’re only kidding yourself if you thought it had a chance for Best Picture. It never did. The film might be emotional and full of fan service but at the end of the day, it was never getting a Best Picture nomination. I say this as a Marvel fan. A film…
"Spider-Man: No Way Home and the Oscars"
The Cult of Zack Snyder strikes again as people are openly rooting for The Batman to fail when the Matt Reeves film is released. When I came back online tonight, I saw a tweet appear on the timeline that I found very disturbing. I don’t know if it is just a few fans or a lot but apparently, there are Zack Snyder fans openly rooting for The Batman to fail. This is child-like behavior. Nobody…
"The Batman: People Are Rooting For Film To Fail"
Instead of suspending Whoopi Goldberg from The View, ABC would have done better to encourage more Holocaust education in programming. The thing that comes with being a Jewish critic means always having to chime in when a celebrity makes antisemitic comments or denies/distorts the Holocaust. Here I am once again finding myself writing about Whoopi Goldberg. Personally, I felt her apology on Tuesday’s episode of The View was satisfactory. It felt like she had shown…
"Whoopi Goldberg, the Holocaust, and Education" Awards season used to kick off with the start of the fall film festival season but things have changed to where it feels fifteen months long. Every now and then, a film will breakout at Sundance, get acquired, and then held for the fall festival season. I have no problem with this. What I have a problem with is the non-stop discussion that starts during Sundance and then plays all the way through Oscar Sunday.…
"Awards Season Should Not Be 15 Months Long"
Oscar-winning filmmaker Ben Affleck is right when he talks about movie theaters trending in the direction of Marvel and event films. Affleck’s comments came recently as the actor was the subject of an Entertainment Weekly cover story. In an interview with Matt Damon asking questions, the two were discussing the failure of The Last Duel at the box office. I’m not going to post a paragraph excerpt because it would just display the quote out…
"Ben Affleck Is Right About Movie Theaters, Marvel"
While the 2022 Sundance Film Festival currently presses forward with in-person, Solzy at the Movies will be covering the festival from home. In light of the Omicron surge and after listening to medical professionals in my circle, I’ve decided against attending the 2022 Sundance Film Festival in person. I’ll still cover the festival virtually and hope to get back to Park City in 2023. (Edit on January 5: The Sundance Institute announced that in-person portion…
"Sundance 2022: I’m Staying Home Due To Omicron"
Solzy at the Movies did not publish a list of worst films in 2020 and is continuing this trend in 2021 after another dumpster fire year. Maybe it is the fact that Jews are taught to be a light unto the nations or the fact that 2021 is another dumpster fire year but I don’t feel this need to rain on anybody’s parade at the end of the year. Not any more. I’m not going…
"Worst Films of 2021: Why You Won’t Find Them Here" As the Omicron variant disrupts awards season and closes Broadway, the 2022 Sundance Film Festival is lowering capacity and requiring boosters. (Edit on January 5: The Sundance Institute announced that in-person portion of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival is now cancelled.) But should they? I get lowering theatrical capacity out of an abundance of caution but with all the disruptions, is it even a good idea to hold a physical film festival? Look at the…
"Sundance 2022 Needs To Pivot To A Virtual Film Fest"