Showbiz: Amateur Adventures in Film Studies

In our hundredth (!!!) episode, we do a bit of noticing of the importance of setting in the beautiful The Ballad of Wallis Island.

We do a bit of noticing of documentary structure and being filmmaker and subject if Man Marked for Death, 20 Years Later.

Big wins for Anora! We do a bit of noticing of Oscars pomp and circumstance, followed by noticing portrayals of mental illness in Melancholia.

We do a bit of noticing of the controversy surrounding Oscar nominees Anora and Emilia Perez.

We do a bit of noticing of critical perspectives and sub-par airports with Army of Shadows.

In our first official new film of the new format, we do a bit of noticing of an adaptation of an adaptation of an adaptation in the new version of Nosferatu.

We're back and we're doing a bit of noticing of cinematography and performances in the intense war film The Deer Hunter from 1978.

We do a bit of noticing of the good, the bad, and the entirely lacking Pedro Pascal in our retrospective of films we watched this year.