Oscar Watch 2023: The Zone of Interest As we’ve come to the end of Oscar Watch 2023, I feel like this exercise was well worth the effort I put into ... By Peter GlagowskiApril 16, 20240 Featured
Featured Oscar Watch 2023: Oppenheimer If more biopics were like Oppenheimer, I wouldn’t be complaining about how dull they often are. Against all odds and my own personal ... By Peter GlagowskiApril 16, 20240
Featured Oscar Watch 2023: The Holdovers I can’t remember the last time a Christmas movie was nominated for the “Best Picture” Oscar. A quick Google search tells me Little ... By Peter GlagowskiApril 16, 20240
Featured Oscar Watch 2023: Killers of the Flower Moon What is it that I said at the beginning of my Oscar Watch article for Maestro? That biopics are pretty bad, right? I ... By Peter GlagowskiApril 15, 20240
Featured Oscar Watch 2023: Anatomy of a Fall It’s been something of a trip to go into these Best Picture nominees with next to no information. The only thing I knew ... By Peter GlagowskiMarch 30, 20240
Oscar Watch 2023: Barbie For whatever reason last year, Barbie was the only one of the Oscar nominees I saw in theaters. While 2023 had a couple ... By Peter GlagowskiMarch 30, 20240 Featured
Featured Oscar Watch 2023: Maestro Biopics are generally pretty bad, right? As a society, we’ve essentially deemed that biographical films on an artist or person’s life tend to ... By Peter GlagowskiMarch 27, 20240
Featured Oscar Watch 2023: American Fiction Despite its recent nomination for Best Picture, I haven’t heard a peep about American Fiction online. I knew next to nothing about it ... By Peter GlagowskiMarch 27, 20240
Featured Oscar Watch 2023: Past Lives Over the past year or two, Flixist hasn’t been as prolific as it once was. We were never a massive site rolling in ... By Peter GlagowskiMarch 21, 20240
Featured Oscar Watch 2023: Poor Things While I wouldn’t say that any of us at Flixist are big Yorgos Lanthimos fans, we’re all familiar with the films he has ... By Peter GlagowskiMarch 21, 20240
One Percenter is an in-depth musing on the nature of action stars Disclaimer: On the very day I put the finishing touches on this draft, a rather informative thread from Japanese film critic Tom Mes ... By Peter GlagowskiMarch 11, 20240 Featured
Featured Peter’s Kung Fu Corner: The Raid [Welcome to the final entry in Peter’s Kung Fu Corner: a monthly column dedicated to retrospectives on the martial arts films I grew ... By Peter GlagowskiJanuary 29, 20240