Review: Cake (2014)
Every year, after the nominations for the Oscars are announced, there are people who don’t get the nominations even though all the critics and the audience were rooting for them (also called Oscar snubs). […]
Academy Awards 2015
Review: The Salt of the Earth (2014)
Growing up in Brazil, it is very usual to see pictures taken by Sebastião Salgado in our school textbooks. They are often used to illustrate the social disparity in the world and to report the […]
Movie review: Wild Tales (“Relatos Salvajes”- Argentina) – 2014
[yasr_overall_rating] I remember reading about this movie during the week prior to this year’s Academy Awards, since it was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film. It was getting great reviews from critics and audiences, even […]
Analysis: The 87th Academy Awards
The ceremony The Oscars ceremony is known for being long, but last year it didn’t feel that long for me. This year, however, it did. There are a lot of commercial interruptions, of course, but […]
Academy Awards 2015 – Predictions
Finally, Oscars day! Since everybody likes to predict who will win, I’m also giving my opinion. The best picture and best actor categories are really hard to predict this year because both “Birdman” and “Boyhood” […]
Movie review: Whiplash (2014)
[yasr_overall_rating] The final movie nominated in the best picture category is “Whiplash,” with 5 nominations. I saw this movie before the award season, so I had no idea it would be so well received by […]
Movie review: The theory of everything (2014)
[yasr_overall_rating] One of the things I enjoy the most when watching a movie is seeing the actor completely transforming himself and incorporating the character (especially when the actor is portraying a famous person who is […]
Movie review: Selma (2014)
[yasr_overall_rating] I was really looking forward to watching “Selma” in a U.S. movie theater because I wanted to see the audience reaction (as I found out, the audience here very often reacts explicitly to what’s […]
Movie review: The imitation game (2014)
[yasr_overall_rating] World War II is one of the most recurring topics portrayed in movies. Every year there’s one film about it. From “The sound of music” to “Inglorious Basterds”, passing through “Schindler’s List”, everybody seems […]
Movie review: The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
[yasr_overall_rating] Seeing this movie among the nominees for best picture was a very pleasant surprise to me. I saw it in March 2014, so I didn’t think it would be strong enough to be remembered […]