Hey everyone! This is a special mini-episode, tying up my thoughts on this year’s Academy Awards. This Wednesday will begin an exciting new series, where we screen classic movies that at least one host has never seen before. Stay tune, and thank you all for your continuing support! To read my reviews of this year’s…
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Our Oscar series continues with Women Talking! Sean, Travis, and I discuss this Best Picture nominee, and we have diverging opinions. We had a pretty strong wine buzz by this point in the evening, so we took this episode off for vino. To read my full review of this film, click here!
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Our Oscar Series continues with Part III, Elvis. Baz Luhrmann’s musical biopic drew polarizing responses from both movie fans and Elvis fans. On one hand, Austin Butler’s performance is great, and very Oscar worthy. At the same time, Luhrmann’s verry stylized approach somehow seems shallow and a bit too much, all at once. We have a heated…
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Part Two of our Oscar series finds us discussing All Quiet on the Western Front, the epic war film now on Netflix. It snagged a Best Picture nomination, as we have strong opinions. For this series, we’re pairing these movies with the wines that made us love wines. When I started at the wine store, I…
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Our Best Picture Series begins with The Banshees of Inisherin! It’s an eccentric, engaging dramedy set in Ireland, circa 1923. The film scored nine Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Actor, Supporting Actor, and Supporting Actress! Some *mild spoilers* show up toward the end of this episode, so proceed with caution. To pair with this flick, I…
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For this episode, we screen a landmark movie: Sidney Lumet’s Network. This masterpiece satire examines the outsized influence of television on our daily lives. It continues to be frighteningly relevant to this day. Network won numerous awards, including Oscars for Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway, and Beatrice Strait. Paddy Chayefsky also won his third screenwriting Academy Award. To…
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It’s part four of our baseball series! This week, we’re looking at one of the most cerebral sports movies ever made–Moneyball. Directed by Bennett Miller (Capote) and written by Steven Zallian and Aaron Sorkin, this film snagged multiple Oscar nominations and was a major box office hit. It also features an all-star cast, including Brad…
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Tonight’s episode of Cinemavino continues our series on the best films to be completely snubbed by the Oscars. Rounders survived so-so reviews and box office to endure as an all-time cult classic. At the very least, John Malkovich should’ve snagged a nomination for Best Supporting Actor. His work here is scene stealing and tremendous. To pair…
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Fair warning: This episode goes heavy on the vino. We indulged in a few too many glasses before we sat down for this Oscar preview, and things get a little goofy. I’ll be honest, this one was a challenge to edit. Still, we do breakdown the Oscar favorites, as best we can.
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With this episode, we kick off our Valentine’s Month of date movies. As Good as It Gets is an odd hybrid of rom-com, character study, and conventional drama that examines a few themes that were (for 1997) ahead of their time. Jack Nicholson’s character is anti-Semitic, misogynistic, homophobic, bigoted, and…well, every other terrible word you…
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