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Welcome to another edition of WEEK IN GEEK here at Fanboys Anonymous—a rundown of some of the events, news and stories that went down over the past few days in the geek culture spectrum.

Here are some of the topics I felt like voicing my opinions about:

Black Panther Returning to Theaters for Black History Month

From February 1-7, Black Panther is going to come back to 250 AMC theaters for seemingly two reasons: Black History Month and to give it an extra boost for the Academy Awards.

VERY smart move. Also, tickets are going to be free? That's a great way to get people to really give your movie lots of positive buzz. Kudos, team. Great movie, too, as I've said time and time again.

Black Panther Wins at Screen Actors Guild Awards

The film took the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture award and Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture. Nice!

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 6 Teaser

So....huh? I'm assuming this is an alternate dimension type deal or something, as they can't do time travel again without it just being stupid.

To be honest, I wish they would go back to the previous formula of just having more scaled down things to deal with. Season 1 and parts of season 2 were my favorites overall.

Birds of Prey Teaser

This did absolutely nothing to quell my fears about this movie. In fact, it really proved that I have every reason to be fearful, because it's stupid. It's a meaningless set of images that show a Black Mask without a black mask, a drugged out looking Black Canary, a Cassie Cain that doesn't strike me at all as that character in the slightest bit, and it's trying to be cutesy.

Zombieland: Double Tap

Not sure I dig the title, but it's not something bothersome. Rosario Dawson will be in it, though, which is a plus.

Ben Affleck Exits The Batman

Seems we have another story about Affleck no longer being Batman. At this point, fuck it. DC's movies are so haphazard and crazy that I'm not investing anything in them, in particular. If they aren't going to crossover with each other anymore, then go ahead and cast a new Batman. Just make good movies and maybe you can revisit the Justice League in the future when you have an actual game plan, instead of throwing things out there and hoping some of it sticks.

DC Super Pets

Yeah....this isn't one of those good ideas. A whole movie revolving around Krypto and all? Stupid. That's an animated kids flick project, not an actual movie.

Batman Beyond Film....J/K

Rumors went around that there would be a Batman Beyond film in the works. Now, those are said to be not true.

Welcome to another edition of 6 Flicks Picks, wherein I list all of the upcoming films that are scheduled to be released in the United States for the month which is about to begin and break down which ones I'll be watching in theaters, which ones I'll wait to rent at home, and which ones I'll be skipping out on entirely. After going through the list, I'll choose which six films stand out to me as the ones I want to see the most, even if there are more or less than six that interest me.

Note: The list below is based primarily off the expanded nationwide USA release dates on IMDB as well as some other random outlets if possible, so some information may be different. If I am missing some of the limited releases or the dates conflict in some fashion, please let me know in the comments below and any adjustments and corrections will be made!

Without further ado, another new month means another new set of films, so what's coming soon to theaters in February 2019?

Jacob's Ladder

Synopsis: After returning home from the Vietnam War, veteran Jacob Singer struggles to maintain his sanity. Plagued by hallucinations and flashbacks, Singer rapidly falls apart as the world and people around him morph and twist into disturbing images. A remake of the 1990 thriller starring Tim Robbins.

Will I watch? = No

Miss Bala

Synopsis: Gloria finds a power she never knew she had when she is drawn into a dangerous world of cross-border crime. Surviving will require all of her cunning, inventiveness, and strength. Based on the Spanish-language film.

Will I watch? = No

Arctic

Synopsis: A man stranded in the Arctic after an airplane crash must decide whether to remain in the relative safety of his makeshift camp or to embark on a deadly trek through the unknown in hopes of making it out alive.

Will I watch? = No


The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part

Synopsis: It's been five years since everything was awesome and the citizens are facing a huge new threat: LEGO DUPLO® invaders from outer space, wrecking everything faster than they can rebuild.

Will I watch? = Yes

What Men Want

Synopsis: A woman is boxed out by the male sports agents in her profession, but gains an unexpected edge over them when she develops the ability to hear men's thoughts.

Will I watch? = No

Cold Pursuit

Synopsis: A snowplow driver seeks revenge against the drug dealers he thinks killed his son. Based on the 2014 Norwegian film 'In Order of Disappearance'.

Will I watch? = No

The Prodigy

Synopsis: A mother concerned about her young son's disturbing behavior thinks something supernatural may be affecting him.

Will I watch? = No

Everybody Knows

Synopsis: Laura, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, returns to her hometown outside Madrid with her two children to attend her sister's wedding. However, the trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.

Will I watch? = No

Under the Eiffel Tower

Synopsis: Stuart is a having a mid-life crisis. Desperate for something more in life, he tags along on his best friend's family vacation to Paris - then proposes to his friend's 24-year-old daughter, Rosalind, while standing under the Eiffel Tower.

Will I watch? = No


Happy Death Day 2U

Synopsis: Tree Gelbman discovers that dying over and over was surprisingly easier than the dangers that lie ahead.

Will I watch? = No

Alita: Battle Angel

Synopsis: An action-packed story of one young woman's journey to discover the truth of who she is and her fight to change the world.

Will I watch? = Yes

Fighting with My Family

Synopsis: A former wrestler and his family make a living performing at small venues around the country while his kids dream of joining World Wrestling Entertainment.

Will I watch? = Yes (ugh)

Isn't It Romantic

Synopsis: A young woman disenchanted with love mysteriously finds herself trapped inside a romantic comedy.

Will I watch? = No

This One's for the Ladies

Synopsis: This documentary explores the sexual and social identity of contemporary black America through intimate, eye opening and often hilarious accounts from women and men who find love and community in the underground world of exotic dancing.

Will I watch? = No

Birds of Passage

Synopsis: During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.

Will I watch? = No


How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

Synopsis: When Hiccup discovers Toothless isn't the only Night Fury, he must seek "The Hidden World", a secret Dragon Utopia before a hired tyrant named Grimmel finds it first.

Will I watch? = Yes

The Rhythm Section

Synopsis: A woman seeks revenge against those who orchestrated a plane crash that killed her family.

Will I watch? = No

The Turning

Synopsis: A young governess is hired by a man who has become responsible for his young nephew and niece after the deaths of their parents. A modern take on Henry James' novella "The Turn of the Screw".

Will I watch? = No

Run the Race

Synopsis: Against the backdrop of high school football and track, two brothers in a small Southern town face escalating problems with two different world views, straining - but ultimately strengthening - the bonds of brotherhood.

Will I watch? = No


Which films make the cut?

6. The Prodigy — Nope, but given the options...

5. Cold Pursuit — Again, nope, but at least there might be a joke or two in the movie that I laugh at.

4. Fighting with My Family — Uuuuugggh I have to see this crap in order to have the proper context to cover it for Smark Out Moment. Damn it. I didn't even really love Paige as a performer, let alone think this movie looks decent.

3. Alita: Battle Angel — I'm not familiar with the source material and I don't think I'd like this all that much beyond just "meh" but it's more up my alley than most films this month.

2. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World — The previous two movies were good. Might as well round out the trilogy.

1. The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part — Batman was better than the first movie, but yeah, this is the only one I know for sure I'll see in theaters.

Welcome to another edition of WEEK IN GEEK here at Fanboys Anonymous—a rundown of some of the events, news and stories that went down over the past few days in the geek culture spectrum.

Here are some of the topics I felt like voicing my opinions about:

New Ghostbusters Movie

Oh look, they finally want to do the thing that they should have done YEARS ago, when they could have had all four Ghostbusters (if not five, with Moranis) in the movie, but decided to dawdle, wait until Ramis died, then do that stupid all women version. Now, they can't get it to be as good as it could have been.

What I'm hoping is they do what needs to be done. They need to say that Egon is gone and they lost their top scientist and they need a new one, which can be one of the four or five new Ghostbusters, and that "smart one" needs to be either a woman and/or a minority to help it not be another scenario where it was just a bunch of white guys and Winston was on the sidelines.

Then, they need to make Oscar the protagonist and have them confirm that he's the son of Peter. Sigourney Weaver needs to appear alongside Bill Murray. He should have a love interest in the film who either is the scientist that I mentioned above, or some new character (I'd love for it to be Peck's daughter played by Emma Stone and I'd love for her to have an interest in the occult based on her father's dealing with the Ghostbusters in the past). I'd love for the team to be Oscar (make him the asshole like Peter), Winston's son (make him the heart like Winston, copy/paste but it works, or make him the tough one, like a former military guy who kicks their asses into gear and makes a team out of them who can actually do the job), the smart one (male/female, doesn't matter, but the new Egon; dorky, ideally female) and ideally the Peck witchcraft daughter who is rebellious and fun in her own way and all.

We'll see.

Unsolved Mysteries is Returning

I trust the people from Stranger Things, and the concept is simple enough that it's hard to mess up. Neat.

Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid

I'm not a gamer, but it really seems like games nowadays fall into two categories: they're either cheap and easy multiplayer fighting or shooting games with little to no story (and even then, it's a shell just to explain why people are fighting) or they're some mobile puzzle thing.

If I had any modern consoles or a PC that I dedicated to gaming, I'd love to play a Power Rangers game that was a real game with a story and all. I have no interest, personally, in something that's just "pick your character and fight another character and then fight another and then another" and if I do, I'd play Street Fighter or something else like that, you know?

The New Mutants Getting Delayed Again?

Rumors suggesting they'll push it back to November, if not just release it on Hulu, instead.

YES, put it on Hulu. Don't put this in theaters. It's not going to do well. It's only going to hurt the franchise's potential by putting a bad taste in people's mouths.

If people are interested in seeing this, they'll venture to Hulu to see it. If not, they'll not bother with it. But if you put it out in theaters, more people will see it by nature and if it sucks that bad, you'll just be setting them up to not trust more X-Men films in the future.

Young Justice: Outsider Mid-Season Break

The first half of this season of Young Justice has finished airing.

Let me reiterate something I've said many times in the past, that I love how adult this show is and how they treat the Justice League like a military unit, because eventually, that's how the team would operate. Expansion of members, utilizing people for their strengths, etc. I love that so much.

These last bunch of episodes were totally crazy, like the Doom Patrol Go thing and all the use of random characters like Metamorpho and Harper Row. I loved it. Court of Owls, even? Awesome.

The nominees for the 91st Academy Awards have been announced, so it's time for us to talk about some of the surprises, snubs and our predictions of which movies will take home an Oscar in 2019.

A FEW NOTES BEFORE WE START:

Every year, I feel the need to point out when the list of movies feels largely unappealing to me and this time around, the same thing has happened. Something like The Favourite just does not come off as interesting to me and I don't think I could justify sitting down and watching that unless it does win a ton of awards.

As such, my opinion is going to be heavily skewed by face value interpretations, my attempts to predict how other people will view things through politics and typical b.s. like that, and what other analysts are saying, for the vast majority of the categories below.

Yaaaay for not having more interesting topics to cover as nowadays, every movie that's worth something at the Oscars has to be a historical drama or about some kind of marginalized group seeking their place in the world. Yawn.

I'm sure most of these movies won't ever be brought up in a conversation beyond Academy Awards season unless you're a film snob and you think you're holier than thou because you don't like "mainstream" things and you want to prove to your friends how educated and cultured you are because you can get on a soapbox and rant about If Beale Street Could Talk or Isle of Dogs instead of being a more likable person at a party.

CHECKLIST OF MOVIES BELOW:

* = I've seen the film
(#) = number of total nominations

The Favourite (10)
Roma (10)
A Star is Born (8)
Vice (8)
* Black Panther (7)
BlacKkKlansman (6)
* Bohemian Rhapsody (5)
Green Book (5)
First Man (4)
Mary Poppins Returns (4)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (3)
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (3)
Cold War (3)
If Beale Street Could Talk (3)
Isle of Dogs (2)
Mary Queen of Scots (2)
Never Look Away (2)
RBG (2)

* A Quiet Place (1)
At Eternity's Gate (1)
* Avengers: Infinity War (1)
Border (1)
Christopher Robin (1)
First Reformed (1)
* Incredibles 2 (1)
Mirai (1)
Ralph Breaks the Internet (1)
* Ready Player One (1)
* Solo: A Star Wars Story (1)
* Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (1)
The Wife (1)

+ giving myself a bonus point for having seen Bao (1)

THOUGHTS AND PREDICTIONS:

Now, onto my predictions, which I'll be updating as time goes on and I potentially watch any of these movies.

BEST PICTURE

THOUGHTS: Logic would dictate if The Favorite has the most nominations and is covered all over the place, it's probably going to win, right? However, Bohemian Rhapsody and Green Book took home the Golden Globes. While it's not a guarantee or anything, I feel there's a strong chance Roma gets Best Foreign Language Film and NOT this because people won't want to vote for it twice and it'll have more competition and some people won't want to vote for a Netflix movie. I don't think Rhapsody has it. I think enough people are probably sick of the Lady Gaga stuff and A Star is Born fluff and no Best Director nomination hurts that. All in all, as much as I think it would be super rad if Black Panther were to win, I'm leaning toward Green Book to take it home.

PREDICTION: Green Book

BEST ACTOR

THOUGHTS: Something just feels right to me about Rami Malek winning. Maybe it's because he's playing a character who isn't a stereotypical "straight and white" guy and that can give him an edge. Maybe it's just because he won the Golden Globe. If not him, Viggo Mortensen feels like #2 to me.

PREDICTION: Rami Malek for Bohemian Rhapsody

BEST ACTRESS

THOUGHTS: Do they give it to Lady Gaga for the sake of giving it to Lady Gaga, or does she need another 99 people out of 100 in a room to give her the win? Glenn Close beat her out. Maybe she does again? The same for Olivia Colman? Or is Colman more of someone who lots of people put on their list, but would be their #2 or #3?

PREDICTION: Glenn Close for The Wife

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

THOUGHTS: I have no idea.

PREDICTION: Mahershala Ali for Green Book

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

THOUGHTS: Absolutely no idea. Amy Adams seems like a throwaway nomination for the sake of liking her? Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz cancel each other out? Then, it's either Regina King or Marina de Tavira and fuck it, let's just guess.

PREDICTION: Regina King for If Beale Street Could Talk

BEST DIRECTOR

THOUGHTS: Total shot in the dark, they can give this to Roma to avoid giving it Best Picture, as this and Foreign Language Film is like a twofer in replacement for the big category.

PREDICTION: Alfonso Cuarón for Roma

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

THOUGHTS: I literally have no idea right now.

PREDICTION: The Favourite

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

THOUGHTS: I literally have no idea right now.

PREDICTION: BlacKkKlansman

BEST FILM EDITING

THOUGHTS: Until I see more, I'm not going to have a clue what the editing style is like, but I'll just take a shot in the dark at the moment.

PREDICTION: Vice

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

THOUGHTS: Very surprised Aquaman isn't on this list, as I thought it should have been a potential winner. Bumblebee...meh, we've seen it before five times. A bunch of others, whatever. To me, this is a race between Infinity War, Ready Player One and Mary Poppins Returns. It depends on if they want to go with spectacle, sheer amount, or nostalgia.

PREDICTION: Avengers: Infinity War

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

THOUGHTS: No idea.

PREDICTION: Roma

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

THOUGHTS: Oooo this is tough. They love their period pieces and The Favourite can certainly win that. But does that mean they go with that, or do they opt to go for the whole African culture angle with Black Panther instead?

PREDICTION: Black Panther

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

THOUGHTS: Again, period piece stuff with fancy dresses seems to be the bread and butter of this category, but Black Panther had tons of tribal material and could definitely snatch this away. I'm going to hedge my bets.

PREDICTION: Black Panther

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

THOUGHTS: Look at Christian Bale.

PREDICTION: Vice

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

THOUGHTS: Having not seen the other movies yet, I have to lean toward Black Panther because I liked some of the songs used in that.

PREDICTION: Ludwig Göransson for Black Panther

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

THOUGHTS: If not just to get Lady Gaga to perform...

PREDICTION: "Shallow" from A Star is Born

BEST SOUND EDITING

THOUGHTS: Four out of five films are nominated for both Editing and Mixing. This makes me think A Quiet Place could win this for standing out as special, but if not, and it goes to the other four, that makes sense due to being nominated so much.

PREDICTION: A Quiet Place

BEST SOUND MIXING

THOUGHTS: Basically, the same applicable thing as what I said for Editing, but swap A Quiet Place for A Star is Born. However, I'm going to hedge my bets again and not go with that switch, by picking one of the four other movies.

PREDICTION: First Man

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

THOUGHTS: Lots of people loved Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse in ways that I don't even think are all that super duper amazing, but I did enjoy it, too. Let's go with that momentum. It's not going to be Incredibles 2 and I don't think it'll be Ralph Breaks the Internet, so I think the other two (Isle of Dogs and Mirai) are from people who think on a different spectrum for animation and we'll see Spider-Man take the cake in a more popular vote.

PREDICTION: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

THE REST OF THE CATEGORIES

Including:
Best Animated Short Film
Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Short Subject
Best Foreign Language Film
Best Live Action Short Film

THOUGHTS: No nomination for Won't You Be My Neighbor? in documentary feature? Bao better win animated short. I'm assuming Roma wins Best Foreign Language Film for sure. Largely, though, I know nothing about these categories and I never do, so if I do any predictions, they're just shots in the dark and you don't want to hear my pointless ramblings about things I'm not in the slightest bit knowledgable about. I have no idea which movies should have been nominated but weren't, which films should not have been nominated but were, or anything else like that. Essentially, I could put all of them up on a dart board and whatever I hit, those are my picks, and I'd probably do just as well as if I tried to guess blindly on my own merits. If you know anything about any of those films, feel free to enlighten me in the comments section so I can try to check them out if I can get access to any of them before the ceremony takes place.


This year is very unpredictable, which is a good thing, as it means it isn't likely that one movie will sweep and just destroy everything. That could happen, of course, but I don't think it will. The downside to that, though, is that this can go down as a year that people don't remember being a strong one for movies, as I don't think we'll be hearing too many people bringing up Roma and The Favourite and A Star is Born and Green Book and whatnot in many regular conversations about film.

Awards season is in full swing, but while the Golden Globes and Academy Awards celebrate the best of the year, the Golden Raspberry Awards poke fun at the worst movies to have come out over the past 12 months. The 39th annual ceremony will take place February 23, 2019.

Here is the list of the nominees for the 2019 Razzies Awards.

WORST PICTURE

Gotti
The Happytime Murders
Holmes & Watson
Robin Hood
Winchester

WORST ACTOR

Johnny Depp (voice) for Sherlock Gnomes
Will Ferrell for Holmes & Watson
John Travolta for Gotti
Donald J. Trump (as himself) for Death of a Nation and Fahrenheit 11/9
Bruce Willis for Death Wish

WORST ACTRESS

Jennifer Garner for Peppermint
Amber Heard for London Fields
Melissa McCarthy for The Happytime Murders and Life of the Party
Helen Mirren for Winchester
Amanda Seyfried for The Clapper

WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Jamie Foxx for Robin Hood
Ludacris (voice) for Show Dogs
Joel McHale for Happytime Murders
John C. Reilly for Holmes & Watson
Justice Smith for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Kellyanne Conway (as herself) for Fahrenheit 11/9
Marcia Gay Harden for Fifty Shades Freed
Kelly Preston for Gotti
Jaz Sinclair for Slender Man
Melania Trump (as herself) for Fahrenheit 11/9

WORST DIRECTOR

Etan Cohen for Holmes & Watson
Kevin Connolly for Gotti
James Foley for Fifty Shades Freed
Brian Henson for Happytime Murders
The Spierig Brothers (Michael and Peter) for Winchester

WORST SCREENPLAY

Death of a Nation
Fifty Shades Freed
Gotti
Happytime Murders
Winchester

WORST REMAKE, RIPOFF OR SEQUEL

Death of a Nation (remake of Hillary’s America)
Death Wish
Holmes & Watson
The Meg (ripoff of Jaws)
Robin Hood

WORST SCREEN COMBO

Any two actors or puppets (especially in those creepy sex scenes) - Happytime Murders
Johnny Depp and his fast-fading film career -  Sherlock Gnomes
Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly (trashing two of literature’s most beloved characters) - Holmes & Watson
Kelly Preston and John Travolta (getting Battlefield Earth-type reviews!) - Gotti
Donald J. Trump and his self-perpetuating pettiness - Death of a Nation and Fahrenheit 11/9

The 91st Academy Awards will take place on February 24, 2019 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California, broadcast by ABC.

Here are the following nominees announced. Tell us your predictions for the winners in the comments below!

BEST PICTURE

Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite
Green Book
Roma
A Star is Born
Vice

BEST ACTOR

Christian Bale for Vice
Bradley Cooper for A Star is Born
Willem Dafoe for At Eternity's Gate
Rami Malek for Bohemian Rhapsody
Viggo Mortensen for Green Book

BEST ACTRESS

Yalitza Aparicio for Roma
Glenn Close for The Wife
Olivia Colman for The Favourite
Lady Gaga for A Star is Born
Melissa McCarthy for Can You Ever Forgive Me?

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Mahershala Ali for Green Book
Adam Driver for BlacKkKlansman
Sam Elliot for A Star is Born
Richard E. Grant for Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Sam Rockwell for Vice

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Amy Adams for Vice
Marina de Tavira for Roma
Regina King for If Beale Street Could Talk
Emma Stone for The Favourite
Rachel Weisz for The Favourite

BEST DIRECTOR

Spike Lee for BlacKkKlansman
Paweł Pawlikowski for Cold War
Yorgos Lanthimos for The Favourite
Alfonso Cuarón for Roma
Adam McKay for Vice

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

The Favorite
First Reformed
Green Book
Roma
Vice

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
BlacKkKlansman
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
If Beale Street Could Talk
A Star is Born

BEST FILM EDITING

BlacKkKlansman
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite
Green Book
Vice

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Avengers: Infinity War
Christopher Robin
First Man
Ready Player One
Solo: A Star Wars Story

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Cold War
The Favourite
Never Look Away
Roma
A Star is Born

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Black Panther
The Favourite
First Man
Mary Poppins Returns
Roma

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Black Panther
The Favourite
Mary Poppins Returns
Mary Queen of Scots

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

Border
Mary Queen of Scots
Vice

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Ludwig Göransson for Black Panther
Terence Blanchard for BlacKkKlansman
Nicholas Britell for If Beale Street Could Talk
Alexandre Desplat for Isle of Dogs
Marc Shaiman for Mary Poppins Returns

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

"All the Stars" from Black Panther
"I'll Fight" from RBG
"The Place Where Lost Things Go" from Mary Poppins Returns
"Shallow" from A Star is Born
"When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings" from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

BEST SOUND EDITING

Black Panther
Bohemian Rhapsody
First Man
A Quiet Place
Roma

BEST SOUND MIXING

Black Panther
Bohemian Rhapsody
First Man
Roma
A Star is Born

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

Incredibles 2
Isle of Dogs
Mirai
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM

Animal Behaviour
Bao
Late Afternoon
One Small Step
Weekends

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Free Solo
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Minding the Gap
Of Fathers and Sons
RBG

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT

Black Sheep
End Game
Lifeboat
A Night at the Garden
Period. End of Sentence

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Capernaum (Lebanon)
Cold War (Poland)
Never Look Away (Germany)
Roma (Mexico)
Shoplifters (Japan)

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM

Detainment
Fauve
Marguerite
Mother
Skin

Welcome to my breakdown of season 2 of Marvel's The Punisher on Netflix! Per usual, this post will be documenting my running commentary of thoughts as I watch every episode. I'll be adding notes almost as a stream of consciousness and when everything has concluded, I'll be wrapping everything up with a full season recap and review to see just how good or bad the overall package was and the hits and misses in a Reviewpoint podcast video.

I invite you to follow along and to leave your thoughts in the comments below just the same!

Episode 1 - "Roadhouse Blues"

• Full disclosure, I normally start these as soon as they premiere, but I didn't for this. I waited 2 days. Why? Well, it's not because I'm not interested or because I didn't like the first season. It's because all of these shows are getting cancelled and I know this isn't going to have anything to do with anything, it'll be its own contained story that will probably drag on too long like most of these seasons, and it's hard to watch these. So nope, no binging start to finish. No rush to watch. I hope this ends up being as good as Daredevil's third season and I breeze through it and love it. I don't have a ton of faith in that being the case for all 13 episodes.
• Ew, you're not helping my case by starting off with country music.
• Instantly don't like this woman for being abrasive right out of the gate. I don't want to go through some 7 episode journey of her warming up. Give me characters I like and I'm interested in, not people I have to tolerate and learn how to deal with. Bleh. I hope I'm wrong. It's only a minute in, so I'm not giving them credit.
• Johnny needs a bullet. Pig.
• Ringo's awesome. He'd better not die.
• Hey, at least Frank, I mean Pete, is trying to move on. Good for him. Beth is so dead because of that.
• Well damn, now I want pancakes, too. Good guy Pete/Frank.
• At least Rex isn't a stereotypical total pain in the ass kid like normal.
• Can we just keep Beth around instead of this other girl? I like Beth.
• Stop it with the country...eeuuuggghhh....
• We're dragging this shit out so much. I didn't need four or five stupid country songs. C'moooon get to the next thing. Tighter editing, everyone. These Marvel Netflix shows suffer SO much from pacing issues. Jeez.
• Did Frank just give that woman a uranage? Cool. Now do some Sweet Chin Music.
• Ringo with the chokeslam!
• Oh man, don't be stabbing Ringo like that.
• Of course both Ringo and Beth need to die and the annoying girl is going to live.
• Imagine what it would be like if we had a Scourge of the Underworld Bar with No Name thing.
• You killed Ringo, so at least let Beth live and have Frank choose to leave for her safety.

Episode 2 - "Fight or Flight"

• Yeah I really don't like this girl. Stop being such a constant stick in the mud.
• Just kill Rachel and save yourself the trouble hahaha
• Opening credits, which actually is going to be when I call it quits for right now, since I made the mistake of starting this at 6am.
• I still feel like Madani should be partnered up with Martin Soap. For that matter, The Russian should make an appearance.
• Good job, Beth, going with the name Pete instead of Frank. Smart move.
• Well, never mind.
• I'm always curious why people don't just say something similar instead of giving up the right information. She went with Pete, which was good, but she said Castiglione. She could have said Pete Costanza, you know?
• I'd at least eat the dinner if I were Dinah. Dinner Madani.
• Practically everything that comes out of Rachel's mouth makes me dislike her and pointing a gun at Frank now is even worse cause there's no reason for her to think that he's anything but a positive after all this. He's surly, yeah, but he saved her life and hasn't done anything to harm her since.
• Why doesn't Frank just pop a bullet in the woman he just knocked out? He already killed everyone else and he's now fought her twice, and he knows she'll wake up and come after them, so why not just...wait, okay, better strategy for sure. Wait, that's the downside is when she wakes up and shoots you.
• I hope this cop doesn't buy Rachel's bullshit.
• Don't be a bitch, Madani.

Episode 3 - "Trouble the Water"

• These insect noises or whatever actually made me think something was going wrong with my sound system. Not a fan.
• I like Deputy Ogden. Don't kill that guy. Give him his $5 back.
• Brett!
• Nice try, asking for Frank's sandwich.
• At least Ogden is likely to survive if he leaves. Sucks for the sheriff and the rest. Oh damn, they're gonna shoot him aren't they? Fuck. I liked Ogden.
• "Sweet boneless Jesus" hahaha
• That can of coke is still not hit?
• Hardin and Ogden are class.
• Yaaaay Hardin and Ogden are going to survive! And he got his five bucks back. Even better.
• Good episode.

Episode 4 - "Scar Tissue"

• Anyone else thinking of Red Hot Chili Peppers with this title?
• "What do you want, freak?" / "I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle."
• You can't be asking questions, Rachel, if you aren't giving any information, either. So...shut up.
• We're now 4 episodes in and there's no Micro yet. I hope he at least pops up somewhere along the line. Also, battle van.
• I'm still not feeling all that incredibly bad for Rachel. 
• Oh hey, Curt.
• Between Bullseye and Billy, I think we can draw some parallels. Don't let kids play baseball, and don't name them something close to baseball (basebill, baseballseye, etc)
• Yeah, Arthur needs to die.
• WHIH news. Nice.

Episode 5 - "One-Eyed Jacks"

• Turk!!!!! Give him the Mind Stone.
• Tell me, Dinah, do you still sleep with a gun under your pillow?
• Everyone has such nice places to live.
• I don't know if Lombardi's is a real place, but I want it.
• OMG enough with the fucking bugs.
• I totally don't trust Dumont. I haven't from the start.

Episode 6 - "Nakazat"

• Well, now you've got at least one gun.
• Kill this guy, Frank.
• Haha nice job burning the place. At least that's something.
• Who is this dude at the restaurant? That actor looks SO familiar and I can't place him...
• You mean to tell me she had the perfect clothes that were reversing and all? Give me a break.
• "Call me old fashioned but I don't work with Russians" hahahaha
• "Thanks guys. I mean it, thanks." Yeah, that really helped you out, didn't it? Now, you're going to Texas with nothing, including your support group.
• So much for not getting shot in the head.
• I just noticed that Dumont was on Lethal Weapon and the guy who played her dad was a cop on that show and is a cop on this show. Interesting.
• Oh just fuck Billy already, why don't you? You clearly want to.
• Curtis needs to play Father to these two.

Episode 7 - "One Bad Day"

• You know, for getting shot in the head, Madani doesn't even have anything wrong with her hair. No scarring preventing that area from growing or whatever. Just saying.
• Krista's a biter.
• Billy hits it and quits it.
• Remember how I keep complaining about the pacing issues of these shows? We've just abandoned Amy and that whole subplot while they get distracted with this Billy story and that just proves how they shouldn't have been dragging that out. It should have been six episodes of the Amy story and then six of the Billy thing that was only tangentially set up in the meantime.
• Don't let all these people die just because you're proud, Lilian.
• Do not feed the pigeons.

Episode 8 - "My Brother's Keeper"

• You've got to admit that Brett at least is on the right side, as much as he's adversarial for this particular set of goals.
• Wasting time. This episode is largely just pointless bullshit discussions that aren't accomplishing anything. People are having arguments just for the sake of eating up an episode's worth of time.
• Why doesn't Curtis just tell Delia something like "Sorry, a bunch of the guys I help out with are in some really bad stuff right now and I'm trying to help them out. I'll let you know when I'm back." or something? It isn't that hard.
• Giving a lot of consideration to just skipping this whole episode.
• Instead, I've just been only 1/3 paying attention. Not even half.
• I do want some spaghetti, though.

Episode 9 - "Flustercluck"

• "Have you forgotten about Pilgrim? Yeah, we did, too. We just didn't have enough material for a full season and hoped we had enough other stuff with Billy to keep you distracted while we stalled."
• Can we go somewhere? Accomplish something? We just had a waste of an episode and now I'm 17 minutes into this one and NOTHING has happened. I'm beyond bored.
• Zzzzzzzzzzz
• I do like the touch of having Frank kill the guy so Amy didn't officially have a murder on her conscience.
• Oh shit, what's his face, from Person of Interest. I loved that guy. He would have been a perfect Detective Bullock in a Batman film. Still could be.
• What a waste of an episode, again. The next one better not be, but I'm taking a break regardless. I don't feel the need to keep binging right now.

Episode 10 - "The Dark Hearts of Men"

• Still dawdling and wasting time...
• Curtis is such a good guy.
• I don't remember there being this many people in Russo's crew.
• Did Frank actually shoot those girls? I must have missed that.

Episode 11 - "The Abyss"

• Can Amy do something other than sit back?
• Karen!
• That reminds me, no Microchip still, and no Martin Soap.
• At least they didn't wait until episode 13 to expose that Frank didn't kill those girls.
• I was really thinking Pilgrim was going to kill Schultz there.
• A foot fetish? Yeah, no wonder people think you're weird, dude.
• So wait, all we accomplished in this episode was Frank STILL being in custody? Come on man, stop wasting my fucking time. This is the fourth episode in a row that didn't need to be a thing. They could have combined all the worthwhile elements of these four episodes into one and a half.

Episode 12 - "Collision Course"

• Finding it very difficult to care about this second half of this season with all this waste. I'm bored and I just want it to end. If there was an option to watch this at 1.5x speed, I would.
• Hey, that florist just had the best interaction anyone has had over two seasons with this whole crew. He's going home that night feeling happy instead of, you know, with a bullet to the brain and a knife in the chin or something.
• Now, Dinah's going to be the next Jigsaw as her face has a cut on it. Ha.
• Weird choice of music.

Episode 13 - "The Whirlwind"

• Yeah, Madani isn't dead. I'm not buying that. They wouldn't kill her like that.
• Eventually, you two are going to put so many holes in this wall that you'll be able to just walk through it and---okay, yup.
• Fuck that whole bullet extraction thing. I hate when I get a hangnail.
• That simple, eh? RIP Jigsaw.
• Well, he's totally killing himself.
• Yup.
• Frank definitely needs to go back to see Beth.
• What a lackluster ending.

On the latest edition of the Fanboys Anonymous REVIEWPOINT podcast, host Tony Mango breaks down the hits and misses of Glass by discussing what worked, what didn't, and whether you should see it or skip it.

M. Night Shyamalan brings together the narratives of two of his standout originals—2000's Unbreakable, from Touchstone, and 2016's Split, from Universal—in one explosive, all-new comic-book thriller: Glass. From Unbreakable, Bruce Willis returns as David Dunn as does Samuel L. Jackson as Elijah Price, known also by his pseudonym Mr. Glass. Joining from Split are James McAvoy, reprising his role as Kevin Wendell Crumb and the multiple identities who reside within, and Anya Taylor-Joy as Casey Cooke, the only captive to survive an encounter with The Beast. Following the conclusion of Split, Glass finds Dunn pursuing Crumb’s superhuman figure of The Beast in a series of escalating encounters, while the shadowy presence of Price emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men.

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Welcome to another edition of WEEK IN GEEK here at Fanboys Anonymous—a rundown of some of the events, news and stories that went down over the past few days in the geek culture spectrum.

Here are some of the topics I felt like voicing my opinions about:

The Green Lantern Intergalactic Police Patrol

Um...I don't think GLIPP is a better thing than GLC with the Green Lantern Corps. If you were renaming anything with that franchise, I'd think it would be better to rename the individual soldiers within the GLC so we're not calling the characters "Green Lantern" and having to distinguish by their real names, as to me, "Green Lantern: Hal Jordan" is still missing an element than what we do with the military. "Sergeant Hal Jordan", for instance, could be referred to as just Sergeant, but in a world of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, etc, it's still confusing that when you tell people "Green Lantern" you have to then do a whole discussion on "which one" you're talking about. Anyway...GLIPP sounds dumb :)

Black Widow to be Rated R?

Rumor has it, they're at least considering this, but c'mon. This isn't going to be rated R. It's just a slow news day/week.

M:I 7 and M:I 8 in Summer 2021 and Summer 2022
Tom Cruise tweeted this out. Christopher McQuarrie is returning and they'll be filmed back-to-back. I'm so down. These movies just keep getting better and this team knows what they're doing.

Possible Villains for Disney+ Shows

Kid Loki and Kid Thor against Ulik the troll and Karnilla. I'm unfamiliar with Karnilla, but I always thought it was strange Ulik wasn't in a movie yet.

Agatha Harkness (who I'm unfamiliar with) as the lead villain for a Vision/Scarlet Witch story about trying to give Vision a soul. I'm intrigued.

Clint Barton training Kate Bishop to be the new Hawkeye with Trickshot as the villain. That makes perfect sense.

Bucky and Falcon enlisted by S.H.I.E.L.D. to take down US Agent. SUPER into that idea, but I still really hope both Cap and Stark don't die in Endgame :(

Lady Sif against The Enchantress makes a lot of sense, and Beta Ray Bill being involved sounds cool too.

War Machine dealing with theft of Stark tech. Maybe that can be Spymaster?

Spider-Man: Far From Home Teaser Trailer

Happy and May flirting? Whaaaat?

Ugh I really hate how they're sticking with this MJ thing.

Nick f'n Fury. The man.

Mysterio looks cool.

Side note: Why does every trailer nowadays have a 1-5 second pre-trailer teaser thing advertising that it's a trailer? Ridiculous.

Batman: TAS Character Kyodai Ken Joins the DC Comics Universe

I'm all for when they use characters from preexisting material instead of making up a brand new character that fulfills the same exact purpose. Kyodai Ken wasn't someone I found particularly memorable, but hey, he's out there, so you might as well use him, right? Very cool.

Reign of the Supermen is the latest in the line of animated DC direct-to-video films. Is it worth the watch or it is something that should be skipped?

Reign of the Supermen
Directed by Sam Liu
Written by James Krieg and Tim Sheridan

STARRING:
Jerry O'Connell (Clark Kent / Superman / Cyborg Superman), Cameron Monaghan (Superboy), Rosario Dawson (Wonder Woman), Nathan Fillion (Hal Jordan / Green Lantern), Rebecca Romijn (Lois Lane), Rainn Wilson (Lex Luthor), Jason O'Mara (Bruce Wayne / Batman), Patrick Fabian (Hank Henshaw), Cress Williams (John Henry Irons / Steel), Jennifer Hale (Martha Kent), Shemar Moore (Cyborg), Brenda Strong (Lillian Luthor), Charles Halford (The Eradicator / Bibbo Bibbowski), and Tony Todd (Darkseid)

Here are some specific thoughts that ran through my mind during the course of the film as a stream of consciousness:

• Off to a good start with this intro.
• Obligatory reference to how I like this animation style.
• Wait, Sullivan? Is that Chloe?
• "I know what to ask these guys." Cut to: "Are you the real Superman, like, for real?"
• Nice ice cream reference.
• Lois at the cocktail party is a knockout.
• I still don't like Rainn Wilson as Lex Luthor.
• "I have the shot" hahahaha
• I don't remember Darkseid being any part of the Death of Superman story
• Dafuq Eric. Leaving Becky out to dry like that.
• WORLDS COLLIDING! A SEINFELD REFERENCE! LMAO

The movie's a good watch, but it's not as good as I was hoping it would be, nor as good as its predecessor. I'd recommend it for anyone interested in this series, yet not as enthusiastically as I would some of the others. The action set piece at the end felt like it just went on and on, and I would have rather had some more character moments instead. The Darkseid stuff felt shoehorned and bland.

Welcome to another edition of WEEK IN GEEK here at Fanboys Anonymous—a rundown of some of the events, news and stories that went down over the past few days in the geek culture spectrum.

Here are some of the topics I felt like voicing my opinions about:

Young Justice: Outsiders

The first 3 episodes were released. This is a show that I have tons of problems with, but I love so much. My problems are largely that I feel like things are always a bit chaotic in that they skip around the timeline too haphazardly and want to fast-forward storylines without the proper setup. I almost feel like this should be season 5 or 6, just like I feel season 2 skipped a full season or two that I wanted to see them cover. But hey, I find the characters interesting and I like the animation style and how adult it is AND how they dig deep into the pantheon of characters.

So, keeping that in mind. We've got Ice, Steel, Black Lightning, Katana, Batwoman (not a fan, CW pandering a bit and this character is pointless outside of the LGBT pandering), Hardware (who I know nothing about, admittedly), Arrowette, Halo (largely an unknown to me), Thirteen (who I know nothing about, either), Spoiler (awesome), Troia....I love it.

The design of Dick Grayson is weird in the sense that when his mouth is covered up, with that hairstyle, he looks exactly like Superboy. Why didn't they notice that? Also, I'm simply not a fan of the face mask compared to what Nightwing should look like. But I always love when Grayson is treated well because he's such an underrated character and seeing him kick ass is great. Also, is that Oracle on the com?

Why is Roy Harper now going by "Will" and why haven't we addressed Wally yet?

Justice League vs. The Fatal Five Casting Announcements

Kevin Conroy as Batman is always A+, as well as Susan Eisenberg as Wonder Woman and George Newbern as Superman.

Most of the other ones are kind of unknown to me at face value, like Peter Jessop (Thorak), Matthew Yang King (The Persuader), Sumalee Montano (Emerald Empress), Philip Anthony Rodriguez (Mano), Daniela Bobadilla (Miss Martian). Curious about Kevin Michael Richardson as Mr. Terrific, as I don't picture him having that deep of a voice. Noel Fisher as Brainiac 5, Tara Strong as Saturn Girl, Elyes Gable as Starboy, neat. Interested in hearing Diana Guerrero as Jessica Cruz and having that character appear in general, as for some reason, I've always thought if I could retcon things, I'd like Green Lantern to be a woman and Cruz fits the bill, obviously, even though I don't personally know much about the character's ins and outs.

In any fashion, I'm naturally seeing this and will be reviewing it, so stay tuned.

Batman: The Long Halloween Coming Soon

A two-part film based on this story? Awesome! Especially when it comes to Troy Baker most likely returning as Joker, as he's the next best underneath Mark Hamill in my mind.

Star Trek 4 has been Shelved?

Deadline is saying the fourth film has been put on hold, which would make sense, as there are a handful of problems with trying to get it off the ground. What do they do with Chekov? How do they figure out all the scheduling of all those big stars, including apparently Chris Hemsworth if they want to do some story of bringing him back into the fold? What about the focus on the TV shows? It just seems like they might need to call it quits.

Superman: Red Son Animated Film Coming Soon

Supposedly (and not surprisingly) this is one of the movies DC Animation plans on making. I'm down. I never read the story, but I know it's a wildly popular one that people tout as being great, so you don't need to sell me past that pitch.

Lady Sif Series Coming to Disney+

Good! She should get her own limited series. The whole bunch of them should have. There should be a Lady Sif and The Warriors 3 series and the other three shouldn't have died, especially so poorly. At least they didn't just kill off Sif in some off-screen fashion.

Avengers: Endgame Screening Early for Terminally Ill Fan

Someone with a whole slew of health problems, who may not make it until April (or even be in the right health to see the film) is going to get to see Avengers: Endgame early. This is the type of good stuff I love to see. Obviously, it would be better if the guy wasn't sick to begin with, but in the worst of situations like that, it's great to see people willing to put a smile on his face while they still can.

The 76th annual Golden Globe Awards are scheduled for this evening, Sunday, January 6, 2019 at the Beverly Hilton on NBC, hosted by Sandra Oh and Andy Samberg. This post will be updated with the full list of winners from all the categories. Tell us your thoughts on the results in the comments below!

Best Supporting Performance by an Actress in a Series, Miniseries, or Television Film
Alex Borstein in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel as Susie Myerson
Patricia Clarkson in Sharp Objects as Adora Crellin
Penélope Cruz in The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story as Donatella Versace
Thandie Newton in Westworld as Maeve Millay
Yvonne Strahovski in The Handmaid's Tale as Serena Joy Waterford

WINNER = Patricia Clarkson in Sharp Objects as Adora Crellin

Best Supporting Performance by an Actor in a Series, Miniseries, or Television Film
Alan Arkin in The Kominsky Method as Norman Newlander
Kieran Culkin in Succession as Roman Roy
Édgar Ramírez in The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story as Gianni Versace
Ben Whishaw in A Very English Scandal as Norman Josiffe
Henry Winkler in Barry as Gene Cousineau

WINNER = Ben Whishaw in A Very English Scandal as Norman Josiffe

Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film
Amy Adams in Sharp Objects as Camille Preaker
Patricia Arquette in Escape at Dannemora as Tilly Mitchell
Connie Britton in Dirty John as Debra Newell
Laura Dern in The Tale as Jennifer Fox
Regina King in Seven Seconds as Latrice Butler

WINNER = Patricia Arquette in Escape at Dannemora as Tilly Mitchell

Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film
Antonio Banderas in Genius: Picasso as Pablo Picasso
Daniel Bruhl in The Alienist as Dr. Laszlo Kreizler
Darren Criss in The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story as Andrew Cunanan
Benedict Cumberbatch in Patrick Melrose as Patrick Melrose
Hugh Grant in A Very English Scandal as Jeremy Thorpe

WINNER = Darren Criss in The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story as Andrew Cunanan

Best Miniseries or Television Film
The Alienist
The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
Escape at Dannemora
Sharp Objects
A Very English Scandal

WINNER = The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story

Best Performance By an Actress in a Television Series (Comedy or Musical)
Kristen Bell in The Good Place as Eleanor Shellstrop
Candice Bergen in Murphy Brown as Murphy Brown
Alison Brie in GLOW as Ruth "Zoya the Destroya" Wilder
Rachel Brosnahan in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel as Miriam "Midge" Maisel
Debra Messing in Will & Grace as Grace Adler

WINNER = Rachel Brosnahan in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel as Miriam "Midge" Maisel

Best Performance By an Actor in a Television Series (Comedy or Musical)
Sacha Baron Cohen in Who Is America? as various characters
Jim Carrey in Kidding as Jeff Piccirillo
Michael Douglas in The Kominsky Method as Sandy Kominsky
Donald Glover in Atlanta as Earnest "Earn" Marks / Teddy Perkins
Bill Hader in Barry as Barry Berkman / Barry Block

WINNER = Michael Douglas in The Kominsky Method as Sandy Kominsky

Best Performance By an Actress in a Television Series (Drama)
Caitriona Balfe in Outlander as Claire Fraser
Elisabeth Moss in The Handmaid's Tale as June Osborne / Offred
Sandra Oh in Killing Eve as Eve Polastri
Julia Roberts in Homecoming as Heidi Bergman
Keri Russel in The Americans as Elizabeth Jennings

WINNER = Sandra Oh in Killing Eve as Eve Polastri

Best Performance By an Actor in a Television Series (Drama)
Jason Bateman in Ozark as Martin "Marty" Byrde
Stephen James in Homecoming as Walter Cruz
Richard Madden in Bodyguard as Sergeant David Budd
Billy Porter in Pose as Pray Tell
Matthew Rhys in The Americans as Philip Jennings

WINNER = Richard Madden in Bodyguard as Sergeant David Budd

Best Television Series (Comedy or Musical)
Barry
The Good Place
Kidding
The Kominsky Method
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

WINNER = The Kominsky Method

Best Television Series (Drama)
The Americans
Bodyguard
Homecoming
Killing Eve
Pose

WINNER = The Americans


Best Original Score
Marco Beltrami for A Quiet Place
Alexandre Desplat for Isle of Dogs
Ludwig Göransson for Black Panther
Justin Hurwitz for First Man
Marc Shaiman for Mary Poppins Returns

WINNER = Justin Hurwitz for First Man

Best Original Song
"All the Stars" from Black Panther
"Girl in the Movies" from Dumplin'
"Requiem for a Private War" from A Private War
"Revelation" from Boy Erased
"Shallow" from A Star Is Born

WINNER = "Shallow" from A Star Is Born

Best Supporting Performance by Actress in a Motion Picture
Amy Adams in Vice as Lynne Cheney
Claire Foy in First Man as Janet Shearon Armstrong
Regina King in If Beale Street Could Talk as Sharon Rivers
Emma Stone in The Favourite as Abigail Hill
Rachel Weisz in The Favourite as Sarah Churchill

WINNER = Regina King in If Beale Street Could Talk as Sharon Rivers

Best Supporting Performance By an Actor in a Motion Picture
Mahershala Ali in Green Book as Don Shirley
Timothée Chalamet in Beautiful Boy as Nic Sheff
Adam Driver in BlacKkKlansman as Flip Zimmerman
Richard E. Grant in Can You Ever Forgive Me? as Jack Hock
Sam Rockwell in Vice as George W. Bush

WINNER = Mahershala Ali in Green Book as Don Shirley

Best Performance By an Actress in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical)
Emily Blunt in Mary Poppins Returns as Mary Poppins
Olivia Colman in The Favourite as Queen Anne
Elsie Fisher in Eighth Grade as Kayla Day
Charlize Theron in Tully as Marlo Moreau
Constance Wu in Crazy Rich Asians as Rachel Chu

WINNER = Olivia Colman in The Favourite as Queen Anne

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical)
Christian Bale in Vice as Dick Cheney
Lin-Manuel Miranda in Mary Poppins Returns as Jack
Viggo Mortensen in Green Book as Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga
Robert Redford in The Old Man & the Gun as Forrest Tucker
John C. Reilly in Stan & Ollie as Oliver Hardy

WINNER = Christian Bale in Vice as Dick Cheney

Best Performance By an Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama)
Glenn Close in The Wife as Joan Castleman
Lady Gaga in A Star Is Born as Ally Maine
Nicole Kidman in Destroyer as Erin Bell
Melissa McCarthy in Can You Ever Forgive Me? as Lee Israel
Rosamund Pike in A Private War as Marie Colvin

WINNER = Glenn Close in The Wife as Joan Castleman

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture (Drama)
Bradley Cooper in A Star Is Born as Jackson Maine
Willem Dafoe in At Eternity's Gate as Vincent van Gogh
Lucas Hedges in Boy Erased as Jared Eamons
Rami Malek in Bohemian Rhapsody as Freddie Mercury
John David Washington in BlacKkKlansman as Ron Stallworth

WINNER = Rami Malek in Bohemian Rhapsody as Freddie Mercury

Best Motion Picture (Foreign Language)
Capernaum
Girl
Never Look Away
Roma
Shoplifters

WINNER = Roma

Best Motion Picture (Animated)
Incredibles 2
Isle of Dogs
Mirai
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

WINNER = Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Best Director - Motion Picture
Bradley Cooper for A Star Is Born
Alfonso Cuarón for Roma
Peter Farrelly for Green Book
Spike Lee for BlacKkKlansman
Adam McKay for Vice

WINNER = Alfonso Cuarón for Roma

Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
Alfonso Cuarón for Roma
Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly, and Nick Vallelonga for Green Book
Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara for The Favourite
Barry Jenkins for If Beale Street Could Talk
Adam McKay for Vice

WINNER = Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly, and Nick Vallelonga for Green Book

Best Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical)
Crazy Rich Asians
The Favourite
Green Book
Mary Poppins Returns
Vice

WINNER = Green Book

Best Motion Picture (Drama)
BlacKkKlansman
Black Panther
Bohemian Rhapsody
If Beale Street Could Talk
A Star Is Born

WINNER = Bohemian Rhapsody

Welcome to another edition of WEEK IN GEEK here at Fanboys Anonymous—a rundown of some of the events, news and stories that went down over the past few days in the geek culture spectrum.

Here are some of the topics I felt like voicing my opinions about:

A Quiet Place 2 Ideas

Supposedly, the story will follow a different group of people and focus on the same situation from another perspective. I'm cool with that. We don't need to necessarily follow these particular characters we've already gotten to know, as they were kind of placeholder people to begin with.

Bird Box

I liked it. I didn't love it, but I liked it. It felt like A Quiet Place to me (funny enough, second story here) but not quite as good. If you haven't seen it yet and you think it's interesting looking, I'd recommend checking it out, for sure.

The Punisher Season 2 Trailer

Eh...this felt like something that the creator thought was super deep and cool, but it didn't do much for me.

Carmen Sandiego Trailer

This is an interesting direction to take for the character to make her a hero, but still a thief. I kind of dig it.

PGA Best Picture Awards Nominations

Black Panther - Awesome. Loved it. I'd really love to see it win.
BlacKkKlansman - Haven't seen it yet.
Bohemian Rhapsody - Good movie. Thumbs up.
Crazy Rich Asians - Haven't seen it and I have no interest in watching it.
The Favourite - I don't even think I've heard of this. If I have, I forgot about it entirely.
Green Book - Didn't strike me as a movie I'd love, but I haven't seen it.
A Quiet Place - I liked it quite a bit. Very cool it's nominated.
Roma - I still don't even know what this is about.
A Star is Born - Yugh. Stop. This just has this stench of bait all over it and I hate that it's working.
Vice - Haven't seen it yet.

Welcome to another edition of 6 Flicks Picks, wherein I list all of the upcoming films that are scheduled to be released in the United States for the month which is about to begin and break down which ones I'll be watching in theaters, which ones I'll wait to rent at home, and which ones I'll be skipping out on entirely. After going through the list, I'll choose which six films stand out to me as the ones I want to see the most, even if there are more or less than six that interest me.

Note: The list below is based primarily off the expanded nationwide USA release dates on IMDB as well as some other random outlets if possible, so some information may be different. If I am missing some of the limited releases or the dates conflict in some fashion, please let me know in the comments below and any adjustments and corrections will be made!

Without further ado, another new month means another new set of films, so what's coming soon to theaters in January 2019?

Eli

Synopsis: A boy receiving treatment for his auto-immune disorder discovers that the house he's living isn't as safe as he thought.

Will I watch? = No

Escape Room

Synopsis: Six strangers find themselves in circumstances beyond their control, and must use their wits to survive.

Will I watch? = No

Great Great Great

Synopsis: A young couple's decision to get engaged threatens to break them apart.

Will I watch? = No


The Upside

Synopsis: A comedic look at the relationship between a wealthy man with quadriplegia and an unemployed man with a criminal record who's hired to help him.

Will I watch? = No

A Dog's Way Home

Synopsis: A dog travels 400 miles in search of her owner.

Will I watch? = No

Perfect Strangers

Synopsis: Seven friends gather for dinner and decide to play a game in which all incoming messages and calls will be on display for the entire group, leading to a series of revelations that gradually unravels their 'normal' lives.

Will I watch? = No

Replicas

Synopsis: A scientist becomes obsessed with bringing back his family members who died in a traffic accident.

Will I watch? = No

The Untold Story

Synopsis: Edward Forester's career and personal life have hit rock bottom-but not his spirit. At 64, the handsome bachelor moves in to a tiny apartment and must start over again.

Will I watch? = No


Glass

Synopsis: Security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities.

Will I watch? = Yes

The Heiresses

Synopsis: Chela and Chiquita are both descended from wealthy families in Asunción and have been together for over 30 years. But recently, their financial situation has worsened and they begin selling off their inherited possessions. But when their debts lead to Chiquita being imprisoned on fraud charges, Chela is forced to face a new reality. Driving for the first time in years, she begins to provide a local taxi service to a group of elderly wealthy ladies. As Chela settles into her new life, she encounters the much younger Angy, forging a fresh and invigorating new connection. Chela finally begins to break out of her shell and engage with the world, embarking on her own personal, intimate revolution.

Will I watch? = No

Arctic Justice

Synopsis: Swifty the Arctic fox works in the mail room of the Arctic Blast Delivery Service but dreams of one day becoming a Top Dog (the Arctic's star husky couriers). To prove himself worthy of the Top Dog role, Swifty secretly commandeers one of the sleds and delivers a package to a mysterious location. He stumbles upon a secret fortress where he comes face to face with Otto Von Walrus, a blubbery evil genius who walks around on mechanical legs and commands a loyal army of oddly polite puffin henchmen. Swifty soon discovers Von Walrus' plan to melt the polar ice caps and flood the world in order to reign supreme. Now, Swifty has to enlist the help of his friends: PB, a concerned polar bear, Lemmy, a scatterbrained albatross, Bertha and Leopold, two conspiracy theorist otters and Jade, a worldly fox. This ragtag group of Arctic misfits has to band together to stop Von Walrus' sinister plans and save the day.

Will I watch? = No


Serenity

Synopsis: The mysterious past of a fishing boat captain comes back to haunt him, when his ex-wife tracks him down with a desperate plea for help, ensnaring his life in a new reality that may not be all that it seems.

Will I watch? = No

The Kid Who Would Be King

Synopsis: A band of kids embark on an epic quest to thwart a medieval menace.

Will I watch? = No

The Invisibles

Synopsis: Four young Jews survive the Third Reich in the middle of Berlin by living so recklessly that they become "invisible."

Will I watch? = No


Which films make the cut?

#6 and #5. (holdovers from December) — Can I cheat on my own thing and choose these two as two movies from December that I didn't get to see yet in Ralph Breaks the Internet and Vice? If not, I don't know, give it to Escape Room and Eli for all I care.

4. The Upside — Maybe there are some good jokes in it or a poignant moment or two.

3. Replicas — I have no idea.

2. Serenity — I know better than to get sucked in by a trailer promising mystery with a hot naked blonde Anne Hathaway, but this is a weak month.

1. Glass — This was almost on my 6 Flicks Picks for the entire year, just narrowly missing out at the #7 ranking. Yeah, ONE off. Of course this is my top pick and the only one that I'm actually interested in seeing this month.