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: Movies
The BPoFD Top 25 Films of the 2010s
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 […]
The Strawberry Criterion: JOKER
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, […]
The Strawberry Criterion: MIDSOMMAR
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 […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Green Book
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.” […]
BPoFD Podcast Episode #25: Oscars 2019 with William Glick
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 […]
2018 Top Ten Lists With Zero Explanations
Top Ten Movies of 2018 1. Roma 2. First Reformed 3. Suspiria 4. Eighth Grade 5. You Were Never Really Here 6. A Star is Born 7. First Man 8. Hereditary 9. Isle of Dogs […]
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 […]
The Strawberry Criterion: A Star is Born
The genealogy of A Star is Born, Bradley Cooper’s directorial debut, traces an indirect lineage back to the dawn of American cinema, with three remakes and nine decades separating this most recent version from its oldest […]
