Don’t miss the Oscars this weekend—here’s our predictions!

 The most prestigious awards show celebrating the movie industry takes place this Sunday. The 93rd Academy Awards is coming a few months late, thanks Covid, but anticipation for ‘Hollywood’s biggest night’ is still at an all-time high. To help you win your Oscar pool, here are my picks for the big awards

Are Netflix films the dark horse best picture bets of the future?

 In Field of Dreams, James Earl Jones expounds upon the nature of baseball in the national psyche, how it has “marked the time” even as “America has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again.” The sentiment could likewise be applied to American films and the Oscars. We started

Shangela’s exclusive interview: the Oscars, Ottawa and the queens of Drag Race Season 11

 Photo credit: Erika Wagner Growing up, young D.J. Pierce would always watch the annual Oscars. But this past Sunday, it was a dream come true for Pierce, better known by the drag name 'Shangela', to walk the red carpet at the 91st Academy Awards. “TV and film and this celebration has always

Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk is a mesmerizing adaptation of the 1974 book

 By Asma Horea Abdourahman Director Barry Jenkins’ adaptation of James Baldwin’s 1974 book, “If Beale Street Could Talk”, opens up with a quote from the late author: “Every black person born in America was born on Beale Street, whether in Jackson, Mississippi, or in Harlem, New York. Beale Street is

La La Land Wins Best Picture…For About 45 Seconds! OLM’s Oscar Recap!

Lighthearted La La Land’s Lyrically Lovely

 If in doubt about wanting to see a musical, just go. La La Land won’t disappoint! There have been Broadway musicals that have been made for the big screen but this is the first original musical to be made in Hollywood since the days of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers.