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Where to Watch the Oscar Nominated Movies

Where to watch the 2024 Oscar Nominated Movies, from Best Picture to the Short Films

All 53 Movies Nominated for Best Picture The Oscars are this Sunday, March 10th at 7pm Est. Here is where you can stream all 53 movies nominated for an Oscar, including Best Picture, Best Documentary, foreign language, Short films and more. I move down the categories in alphabetical order, removing any movie that was in a previous category the full list of categories and movies click hereIf it…

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Priscilla (2023) Review

Movie: Priscilla (2023) Director: Sofia Coppola Written bySofia Coppola Written by: Sofia CoppolaBased on: Elvis and Me by Priscilla Presley & Sandra Harmon Starring: Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Dagmara Domińczyk, Lynne Griffin Coppola has a great eye; the movie looks absolutely stunning. Cailee Spaeny is good. I think at times she commands the screen, but at other times, she fades into the…

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Five Nights at Freddy's (2023) review

“Five Nights at Freddy’s is a 2023 horror film based on the video game released in 2014, which has spawned nine sequels and DLCs. It’s a game my youngest son knows all about. The 7-year-old likes to watch people play the video game because he enjoys things that creep him out. I was going to let him watch this, but his mother wisely suggested not to. I say ‘wisely,’ not because I think it would…

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A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)

Movie: Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child Director: Stephen Hopkins (Predator 2, Blown Away) Writers: Leslie Bohem (Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, Dante’s Peak Starring: Robert Englund, Lisa Wilcox, Danny Hassel, Joe Seely, Whit Hertford I’ve seen The Nightmare on Elm Street movies, 1 through 4, and I rewatched them this halloween season to prepare to finish the series, for…

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Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) review

Movie: Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare Directed by: Rachel Talalay (Tank Girl) Written by: Michael De Luca (In the Mouth of Madness, Judge Dredd) Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare takes some huge chances, in many ways I kept comparing it to Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. They both took a big swing in a beloved franchise and parts work, parts don’t. Set in the near future, Freddy has…

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Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994) review

Movie: Wes Craven’s New Nightmare Director: Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, The Hills Have Eyes) Writer: Wes Craven Wes Cravens New Nightmare is a different final step for the Nightmare franchise (aside from the remake and Freddy vs Jason). Wes Craven stretches a lot of the muscles he would later flex in the Scream series. New Nightmare plays out like a mystery more than…

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Freddy VS. Jason (2003) review

Freddy VS Jason Director: Ronny Yu (Bride of Chucky) Starring: Robert Englund, Ken Kirzinger, Kelly Rowland, Monica Keena, and Jason Ritter Freddy VS Jason is a perfect 3 star cheeseburger, not great but it does the job. The movie opens with Freddy in his own dreamworld, no one knows about him, no one is scared of him so he has no power, he is no longer a threat. But he has a plan…. JASON!!!…

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A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) review

Day 6 of 31 days of Horror Directed by: Samuel Bayer (Music Video Director) Starring: Jackie Earl Hayley, Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner, Katie Cassidy, Kellan Lutz, Connie Briton and Clancy Brown. I don’t know if I’ve seen a movie take such a great premise, a good first act, some great young actors, and mess it up so badly. A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) is, at times, a shot-for-shot remake,…

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Exorcist: Believer (2023) review

Director: David Gordon Green (Halloween (2018) Halloween Ends, Halloween Kills, Pineapple Express) It seems that I am on The opposite side of many critics and audiences in enjoying this. I wonder if it’s psychological with me, I see a movie doing poorly and go in rooting for it. We find Victor Fielding (Leslie Odom Jr.) and his pregnant wife Sorenne (Tracey Graves) in Haiti on vacation, it’s…

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Secret Invasion (2023) My spoiler thoughts on the Marvel Disney+ show

I just finished “Secret Invasion”, the newest Disney+ show offering. I’ve decided I will spoil it below for all of those not interested in watching it: The main things you need to know is this:Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) has been away from earth since he was brought back to life in the “blip” or when The Hulk snapped the infinity Gauntlet and brought everyone back.He has been away looking for…

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Sound of Freedom (2023) review

Directed by: Alejandro Gómez Monteverde (Bella, Little Boy) Starring: Jim Caviezel Mira Sorvino Bill Camp My rating: 2.5/5 stars The Right sure does love a White Savior story.  Sound of Freedom follows the some what true story of Tim Ballard played by Jesus himself Jim Caviezel (Passion of the Chris). Ballard rescues a young boy named Miguel (Lucàs Ávila) from sex traffickers only to discover…

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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) review

Directed/written by: James Gunn (The Suicide Squad, The Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1 & 2, Slither) Starring:Chris PrattZoe SaldañaDave BautistaKaren GillanPom KlementieffVin DieselBradley CooperWill PoulterSean GunnChukwudi IwujiLinda CardelliniNathan FillionSylvester Stallone My rating: 4.5/5 stars If the Guardians trilogy were released as something outside of Marvel, its own thing, it…

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Shoah (1985) Review

“If I don’t smile… I’ll cry” Shoah is a 9 and a half hour documentary, that took 11+ years to make, 5 of those years were spent just editing. It was released in 1985, directed by Claude Lanzmann. There are interviews from many survivors, SS officers, bystanders, and more. I cried several times, but mostly I felt numb. So heartbreakingly numb. I couldn’t count the number of times I thought of…

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The Super Mario bros. Movie (2023) review

This movie is a Five star three star movie... I'm aware that makes no sense, but it's a 3 star script in a 5 star movie. The Mario nerd, and movie nerd are waging a battle...

Directed by: Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelencic (Teen Titans, Go!) Staring: Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black, Keegan-Michael Key, Seth Rogen, Fred Armisen, This movie is a Five star three star movie… I’m aware that makes no sense, but it’s a 3 star script in a 5 star movie. The Mario nerd, and movie nerd are waging a battle… I have been a Mario nerd my entire life, nothing…

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Shazam: The Fury of the Gods

Movie: Shazam Rating: 2/5 stars In theatres now Directed by: David F. Sandberg (Annabelle: Creation, Shazam) Starring:Zachary LeviAsher AngelJack Dylan GrazerRachel ZeglerAdam BrodyRoss ButlerMeagan GoodLucy LiuDjimon HounsouHelen Mirren The first two acts of this movie are hot steaming garbage, the pure awkwardness of it all is almost cringe-worthy. the acting from the cast is bad, most of…

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Ranking Every 2022 Movie (I saw)

My Favorite movies of 2022! (and all the rest) Well… This feels a bit anticlimactic to me. After all the lists I put together I’m basically slapping every 2022 film I saw last year on a list and saying here you go. After all the lists I made, with fancy pictures that took forever that got like 6 likes, I don’t have the energy today, I’m down, but It’s been fun. I love all my friends and people…

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The Film Vault Predicts the 95th Oscars

Mitch Here! welcome to my blog, I thought I’d share the percentages of what The Film Vault Listeners voted! Maybe we got it right? The Listeners clearly see Everything Everywhere All at Once taking Best Picture, as does the rest of the world, but some are still holding on to the theory that All Quiet is a favourite among Oscar Voters Brendan Fraser seems to be the favourite, hopefully Austin…

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