In Episode #26 of the BPoFD podcast, managing editor Carmen Petaccio again sits down with playwright and Oscars historian William Glick to discuss the 2020 Academy Awards. Highlights include predictions for the five major categories, Carmen’s […]
Tag: Film
Worst to First: Coen Brothers Movies
Last week, Netflix funded a limited theatrical release for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, the eighteenth feature film directed by Joel and/or Ethan Coen, with the movie set for wider distribution on the corporation’s streaming platform […]
My 2017 Oscars Ballot
This Sunday, the 89th Academy Awards will be held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Here are my predictions for some of the categories. Best Picture What Will Win: La La Land What Should Win: Moonlight […]
BPOFD PODCAST EPISODE #22: OSCARS 2016 WITH WILLIAM GLICK
In Episode #22 of the BPoFD podcast, managing editor Carmen Petaccio sits down with playwright and Oscars historian William Glick to discuss the 2017 Academy Awards. Highlights include predictions for all the major categories, another round of impossible […]
Bannon Fest Teaser
Over the coming weeks, I’ll be organizing a series of screenings and discussions on the films of Steve Bannon, the scabies-infested Jimmy Buffet roadie who currently serves as the White House Chief of Staff. If […]
Sardoni Selects 2: An Exhaustive Email Exchange: Part 3
(Editor’s Note: Three years ago, Carmen Petaccio and Taylor Sardoni exchanged 15,000 words of email correspondence about the ten most notable films of 2013. No one was ever able to determine why, and now they’re […]
Sardoni Selects 2: An Exhaustive Email Exchange: Part Two
(Editor’s Note: Three years ago, Carmen Petaccio and Taylor Sardoni exchanged 15,000 words of email correspondence about the ten most notable films of 2013. No one was ever able to determine why, and now they’re […]
The 2016 Fall Movie Preview
From slave epics directed by accused rapists to war epics directed by confirmed anti-Semites, this fall movie season truly has something for everyone. Having spent months locked in contentious deliberations, the BPoFD Editorial Board has finally […]
BPoFD Podcast Episode #15: Greg Zuk
In Episode #15 of the BPoFD Podcast, managing editor Carmen Petaccio sits down with Greg Zuk, producer of the upcoming feature film Bone Tomahawk. Highlights include discussions of directorial vision in independent cinema, the trials of a 21-day film shoot, and […]
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