Jeff "Jmunney" Malone's Self-Styled "Expert" Thoughts on Movies, TV, Music, and the Rest of Pop Culture
March 11, 2023
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In another universe, I would have loved to win Oscars with you. (CREDIT: Allyson Riggs/A24)
Here’s a right quick rundown of the Oscar race’s likeliest winners on Sunday, March 12, 2023, and whom I would vote for if I had a ballot.
Best Picture
Prediction: Everything Everywhere All at Once
Preference: Everything Everywhere All at Once
Best Director
Prediction: Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
Preference: Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
March 10, 2023
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Every Award Everywhere All at Once (CREDIT: Allyson Riggs/A24)
If I were in charge of unilaterally selecting the Oscars, here is who would be selected. Nominees are listed alphabetically, winners in bold.
Best Picture
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Pearl
Petite Maman
Turning Red
February 27, 2023
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A Lead Actor and a Supporting Actor? Or 2 Lead Actors (CREDIT: Jonathan Hession/Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2022 20th Century Studios All Rights Reserved.)
Every awards season, there’s a bit of discussion revolving around certain movie performances that straddle the line between Lead and Supporting roles. Sometimes, actors are blatantly submitted in the wrong category, perhaps to avoid competition with a co-star, or because of perceived lack of competition with other movies. And other times, it’s not always easy to say for certain which category is the right one. So I’m here to offer my assessment! It’s a little late this year, seeing as the Oscar nominations have already been announced, but I still felt like chiming in.
(Feel free to chime in with your own takes on this topic if you have any.)
January 26, 2023
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CREDIT (Clockwise from Top Left): Christopher Moss/A24; NEON; Paramount Plus/Screenshot; A24)
Hello, fellow movie lovers! I saw a lot of new movies in 2022. AS USUAL! Anyway, I figured I might go ahead and rank my favorites. And I’ll also provide a quick summary of the falling-in-love journey I went through with each one of them.
March 31, 2022
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Everything Everywhere All at Once (CREDIT: Allyson Riggs/A24)
Starring: Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu, James Hong, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jenny Slate, Harry Shum Jr.
Directors: Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
Running Time: 139 Minutes
Rating: R
Release Date: March 25, 2022 (Theaters)
Everything Everywhere All at Once captures how I feel all the time. I’m not always an outwardly emotional person, but inside I’m perpetually cooking in much the same way that the multiverse is constantly bumping up against itself in the Daniels’ vision. (Damn, Daniels.) Basically, so many of my daily thoughts are something along the lines of, “What do I have to do to make my life a recreation/mashup of The Matrix, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Rick and Morty, In the Mood for Love, 2001, Kill Bill, Ratatouille, and that SNL sketch about googly eyes with Christopher Walken?” And now some folks actually went ahead and did it!
Grade: Everything out of Everything!
March 25, 2022
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Moon Knight (CREDIT: Csaba Aknay/©Marvel Studios 2022)
Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out.
Movies
–Everything Everywhere All at Once (Theaters)
–Mothering Sunday (Theaters)
TV
-94th Academy Awards (March 27 on ABC) – Da moviesh.
–Name That Tune Season Premiere (March 29 on FOX) – Celebrity contestants this time around.
–Moon Knight Series Premiere (March 30 on Disney+) – Oscar Isaac joins the MCU.
–How We Roll Series Premiere (March 31 on CBS) – Pete Holmes goes bowling.
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