After the shocking events at Sunday night’s Academy Awards ceremony, the BPoFD editorial board held an emergency vote to authorize a follow-up interview with Oscars historian William Glick. Following more than 12 straight hours of […]

After the shocking events at Sunday night’s Academy Awards ceremony, the BPoFD editorial board held an emergency vote to authorize a follow-up interview with Oscars historian William Glick. Following more than 12 straight hours of […]
In Episode #27 of the BPoFD podcast, managing editor Carmen Petaccio again sits down with playwright and Oscars historian William Glick to discuss the 2022 Academy Awards. Highlights include predictions for the eight major categories, Carmen’s best […]
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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 […]
Here are the 25 best films of the 2010s, as determined by the editorial board of Baby Pictures of Famous Dictators. The films are ordinally ranked by the magnitude of their aesthetic achievement. The BPoFD […]
Few works of art are less dangerous than a work of art billed as “dangerous,” especially when the ones doing the billing are the feckless, fangless goobers of contemporary cinema’s critical class. Since its premiere, […]
At least to date, the horror films of Ari Aster have shown two principal areas of interest, grief and cults, topics the writer-director tends to explore in that same, deliberate order. In Hereditary, his debut feature […]
In Green Book, director Peter Farrelly’s Oscar-nominated follow-up to Dumb & Dumber To, Viggo Mortensen plays Frank Vallelonga, a nightclub bouncer whose nickname, “Tony Lip,” derives from his distinction as the “best bullshit artist in The Bronx.” […]
In Episode #25 of the BPoFD podcast, managing editor Carmen Petaccio again sits down with playwright and Oscars historian William Glick to discuss the 2019 Academy Awards. Highlights include predictions for all eight major categories, Carmen’s anti-anti-Italian discrimination […]