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Click Here   to view a complete 2026 Oscar Nominees List by Category Click Here   to view a complete list of the 2026 Oscar winners — after March 15th, 2026! The following 10 films have been Oscar-nominated for Best Picture and more. Click any movie title below to see the associated review.         […]

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Frankenstein is a Gothic science fiction drama film produced, written, and directed by Guillermo del Toro, based on Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel. The story follows the life of Frankenstein, an egotistical scientist whose experiment in creating new life results in dangerous consequences. The film was released on Netflix. It had a limited theatrical release in […]

FRANKENSTEIN (2025) – My rating: 8.5/10

Here’s a cool mental trick: when you learn something new, it doesn’t just sit there in isolation.Instead, it starts subtly chatting with everything else you already know. That’s when the real magic happens, a genuinely new idea sparks from two seemingly unrelated concepts meeting! This is the amazing multiplier effect of the mind. It is […]

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Hamnet is a historical tragedy directed by Chloé Zhao, who co-wrote the screenplay with Maggie O’Farrell, based on O’Farrell’s 2020 novel. The film dramatises the family life of William Shakespeare and his wife, Agnes Hathaway, as they cope with the death of their 11-year-old son, Hamnet. This film has a lot of Oscar buzz, so […]

HAMNET (2025) – My rating: 8.5/10

Feeling stuck in your job is exhausting. You spend hours daydreaming about a different life, maybe opening a bakery or learning to code.That desire is your internal north; it’s telling you that you aren’t where you’re supposed to be.Listen to it. It’s valuable data. However, dreaming about the bakery doesn’t teach you how to bake […]

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Charles Gaines on “Hanging Tree” at EJI’s Legacy Sites, YouTube video

Vivian Ayers Allen, first African American faculty member at Rice University

Is This Thing On? is a comedy of remarriage directed by Bradley Cooper, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Will Arnett and Mark Chappell. It is loosely inspired by the life of British comedian John Bishop. The film premiered as the closing film of the 2025 New York Film Festival in October. There’s been Oscar […]

IS THIS THING ON? (2025) – My rating: 8/10

We are all sculpting ourselves, whether we realize it or not. If you chip away randomly at the stone, you end up with a mess of rubble. You need a clear image in your mind of the statue you want to reveal. That vision directs your chisel. Every strike of the hammer is a choice […]

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South African anti-apartheid activist and first president of South Africa 1994 to 1999