From 2018’s A Quiet Place, Lee makes the ultimate sacrifice to protect his family.
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4 Shots from 4 Horror Films: 2018
4 Or More Shots From 4 Or More Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots From 4 Films lets the visuals do the talking!
This October, I’m going to be doing something a little bit different with my contribution to 4 (or more) Shots From 4 (or more) Films. I’m going to be taking a little chronological tour of the history of horror cinema, moving from decade to decade.
Today, we take a look at 2018!
4 Shots From 4 Horror Films: 2018
Mandy (2018, dir by Pan Cosmatos, DP: Bejamin Loeb)
Hereditary (2018, dir by Ari Aster, DP: Pawel Pogorzelski)
A Quiet Place (2018, dir by John Krasinski, DP: Charlotte Bruus Christensen)
Halloween (2018, dir by David Gordon Green, DP: Michael Simmonds)
Here’s The Super Bowl Spot For A Quiet Place 2
Well, it’s Super Bowl Sunday and you know what that means! It’s time for everyone to watch the commercials. As we do every year, we’re going to post every single teaser and trailer that drops during the big game. Actually, it may be a little bit easier than usual this year because, apparently, there aren’t going to be as many trailers as there have been in the past. It’s not cheap to advertise during the Super Bowl and a lot of studios apparently decided that money could be put to better use elsewhere. It makes sense, really. Why spend millions to run one commercial during the Super Bowl when you can just drop the ad on YouTube and then have your star tweet out the link?
That said, we should still have a few trailers to look forward. For instance, here’s the Super Bowl teaser for A Quiet Place 2!
Since Jon Krasinski’s character died at the end of the first film, I’m going to assume that this sequel is going to be, at least partially, a prequel. So, we’ll get to see how the Earth got invaded and all that good stuff. I thought the first A Quiet Place was absolutely brilliant so I’m definitely looking forward to seeing if the sequel can live up to it!
What If Lisa Picked The Oscar Nominees: 2018 Edition
With the Oscar nominations due to be announced tomorrow, now is the time that the Shattered Lens indulges in a little something called, “What if Lisa had all the power.” Listed below are my personal Oscar nominations. Please note that these are not the films that I necessarily think will be nominated. The fact of the matter is that the many of them will not. Instead, these are the films that would be nominated if I was solely responsible for deciding the nominees this year. Winners are starred and listed in bold.
(You’ll also note that I’ve added four categories, all of which I believe the Academy should adopt — Best Voice-Over Performance, Best Casting, Best Stunt Work, and Best Overall Use Of Music In A Film.)
(Click on the links to see my nominations for 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, and 2010!)
Best Picture
Avengers: Infinity War
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Blindspotting
*Eighth Grade
The Favourite
Leave No Trace
The Other Side of the Wind
Roma
A Simple Favor
Support the Girls
Best Director
*Bo Burnham for Eighth Grade
The Coen Brothers for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Alfonso Cuaron for Roma
Debra Granik for Leave No Trace
Yorgos Lanthimos for The Favourite
Orson Welles for The Other Side of the Wind
Best Actor
John Cho in Searching
Jason Clarke in Chappaquiddick
Bradley Cooper in A Star is Born
Daveed Diggs in Blindspotting
*Ethan Hawke in First Reformed
Joaquin Phoenix in You Were Never Really Here
Best Actress
Yalitza Aparicio in Roma
Elsie Fisher in Eighth Grade
Lady Gaga in A Star is Born
*Regina Hall in Support the Girls
Anna Kendrick in A Simple Favor
Thomason McKenzie in Leave No Trace
Best Supporting Actor
Peter Bogdonavich in The Other Side of the Wind
*Ben Foster in Leave No Trace
Michael B. Jordan in Black Panther
Josh Hamilton in Eighth Grade
Tim Blake Nelson in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Michael Palin in The Death of Stalin
Best Supporting Actress
Emily Blunt in A Quiet Place
*Olivia Colman in The Favourite
Zoe Kazan in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Blake Lively in A Simple Favor
Emma Stone in The Favourite
Rachel Weisz in The Favourite
Best Voice Over or Motion-Capture Performance
*Josh Brolin in Avengers: Infinity War
Jake Johnson in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Holly Hunter in The Incredibles 2
Shamiek Moore in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
John C. Reilly in Ralph Breaks The Internet
Ben Whishaw in Paddington 2
Best Original Screenplay
Blindspotting
The Death of Stalin
*Eighth Grade
The Favourite
Game Night
Support the Girls
Best Adapted Screenplay
Avengers: Infinity War
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
If Beale Street Could Talk
Leave No Trace
*A Simple Favor
A Star is Born
Best Animated Feature
Early Man
Have A Nice Day
The Incredibles 2
Isle of Dogs
Ralph Breaks the Internet
*Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Best Documentary Feature
Avicii: True Stories
Recovery Boys
Shirkers
They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead
*Three Identical Strangers
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Best Foreign Language Film
Battle
Gun City
Happy as Lazzaro
Have A Nice Day
The Most Assassinated Woman In The World
*Roma
Best Casting
Blindspotting
Eighth Grade
Mandy
Mid90s
Roma
*Support the Girls
Best Cinematography
Aquaman
Avengers: Infinity Wars
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Black Panther
*Mandy
Roma
Best Costume Design
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
*Black Panther
The Favourite
Lizzie
Mary, Queen of Scots
A Simple Favor
Best Film Editing
Avengers: Infinity Wars
Eighth Grade
Mission Impossible: Fallout
*The Other Side of the Wind
Roma
Searching
Best Makeup and Hair Styling
*The Favourite
Lizzie
Mandy
Mary, Queen of Scots
A Simple Favor
Support the Girls
Best Original Score
Avengers: Infinity War
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Death of Stalin
If Beale Street Could Talk
*Mandy
The Other Side of the Wind
Best Original Song
*“When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings” from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
“All the Stars” from Black Panther
“Limitless” from Second Act
“I’ll Never Love Again” from A Star is Born
“Is that Alright” from A Star is Born
“Shallow” from A Star is Born
Best Overall Use of Music
Bohemian Rhapsody
Eighth Grade
Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again
Mid90s
*A Star is Born
Three Identical Strangers
Best Production Design
Avengers: Infinity War
Black Panther
The Commuter
*The Favourite
Mary, Queen of Scots
A Quiet Place
Best Sound Editing
Annihilation
*Avengers: Infinity War
Mission Impossible: Fallout
The Other Side of the Wind
Roma
12 Strong
Best Sound Mixing
Annihilation
Avengers: Infinity War
Mission Impossible: Fallout
The Other Side of the Wind
Roma
*A Star is Born
Best Stuntwork
Avengers: Infinity War
Beirut
Black Panther
*Mission Impossible: Fallout
12 Strong
Upgrade
Best Visual Effects
Annihilation
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Aquaman
*Avengers: Infinity War
Black Panther
First Man
Films Listed By Number of Nominations:
11 Nominations – Avengers: Infinity War
9 Nominations – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, The Favourite, Roma
8 Nominations – Eighth Grade, A Star is Born
7 Nominations – Black Panther, The Other Side of the Wind
6 Nominations – A Simple Favor
5 Nominations – Leave No Trace, Support the Girls
4 Nominations – Blindspotting, Mandy, Mission Impossible: Fallout
3 Nominations – Annihilation, The Death of Stalin, Mary Queen of Scots, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2 Nominations – Aquaman, Have A Nice Day, If Beale Street Could Talk, The Incredibles 2, Lizzie, Mid90s, A Quiet Place, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Searching, Three Identical Strangers, 12 Strong
1 Nomination – Ant-Man and the Wasp, Avicii: True Stories, Battle, Beirut, Bohemian Rhapsody, Chappaquiddick, The Commuter, Early Man, First Man, First Reformed, Game Night, Gun City, Happy as Lazzaro, Isle of Dogs, Mamma Mia 2: Here We Go Again, The Most Assassinated Woman In The World, Paddington 2, Recovery Boys, Second Act, Shirkers, They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead, Upgrade, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, You Were Never Really Here
Films Listed By Number of Oscars Won:
3 Oscars – Eighth Grade, The Favourite
2 Oscars – Mandy, A Star is Born, Support the Girls
1 Oscar – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Black Panther, First Reformed, Leave No Trace, Mission Impossible: Fallout, The Other Side of the Wind, Roma, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Three Identical Strangers
As for the real nominations, they’ll be announced on Tuesday morning!
2018 in Review: Lisa’s Top 26 Films of 2018
And now, without further ado, I conclude my look back at 2018 with my 26 favorite films of the years. Why 26? Because Lisa doesn’t do odd numbers!
- Eighth Grade
- A Simple Favor
- Leave No Trace
- Support the Girls
- The Favourite
- Roma
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
- Blindspotting
- Avengers: Infinity War
- The Other Side of the Wind
- The Death of Stalin
- Mission Impossible: Fallout
- Mandy
- Searching
- A Star is Born
- Chappaquiddick
- A Quiet Place
- Black Panther
- Annihilation
- Paddington 2
- Game Night
- American Animals
- If Beale Street Could Talk
- Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse
- Three Identical Strangers
- Mid90s
And there you have it. Some of these films, I’ve reviewed here on the site. Some of them — far too many of them — I have not. My hope is that I’ll be able to fix that over the upcoming week. But, whether I manage to write a 100 reviews or only three, I encourage everyone to see these 26 films, along with every other films that they can get their hands on.
2018 was an okay year for movies. We had some really good ones. We also had some really bad ones. For the most part, though, this was pretty much of a middle-of-the-road year. Personally, I can’t wait to see what 2019 has waiting for us!
Thank you everyone for reading. And now, let’s great ready to make 2019 the best year since 2015!
Lisa Looks Back At 2018
- Ten Worst Films of 2018
- Best of Lifetime
- Best of Syfy
- 10 Favorite Novels
- 12 Favorite Non-Fiction Books
- 10 Favorite Songs
- 10 Good Things That I Saw On Television
Here Are The Winners of the 24th Annual Critics Choice Awards!
TSL writer Patrick Smith has referred to The Critics Choice Awards as being his “fifth favorite awards show” and that seems like the perfect description of where they fall in awards season. People do pay attention to them and, in the past, they’ve been a pretty good precursor as far as the Oscars are concerned. At the same time, there always seem to be confusion as just who exactly votes for the Critics Choice Awards.
Well, the answer to that question is that the Critics’ Choice Awards are voted on by the Broadcast Film Critics Association and, tonight, they announced their picks on the CW.
It was interesting night — two ties and Christian Bale was named Best Actor twice, which of course meant we had to suffer through his “I’m just an ordinary working bloke!” routine two times too many. By far, my favorite winner was Amy Adams for Sharp Objects.
(On another note: Taye Diggs was an interesting choice to host. I thought he did okay but, with his talent, he really should be receiving the awards instead of talking about them. Someone write a great role for Taye Diggs ASAP!)
Here are tonight’s winners! (Check out the nominees here!)
Movie
Best Song — Shallow from A Star is Born
Best Young Actor or Actress — Elsie Fisher, Eighth Grade
Best Supporting Actor — Mahershala Ali, Green Book
Best Supporting Actress — Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
Best Sci-Fi or Horror Movie — A Quiet Place
Best Acting Ensemble — The Favourite
Best Action Film — Mission Impossible: Fallout
Best Animated Film — Spider-Man Into The Spider-Verse
Best Foreign Language Film — Roma
Best Original Screenplay — Paul Schrader, First Reformed
Best Adapted Screenplay — Barry Jenkins, If Beale Street Could Talk
Best Actress In A Comedy — Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Best Actor In A Comedy — Christian Bale, Vice
Best Comedy — Crazy Rich Asians
Best Cinematography — Alfonso Cuaron, Roma
Best Production Design — Hannah Beachler and Jay Hart, Black Panther
Best Editing — Tom Cross, First Man
Best Costume Design — Ruth Carter, Black Panther
Best Hair and Makeup — Vice
Best Visual Effects — Black Panther
Best Original Score — Justin Hurwitz, First Man
Best Director — Alfonso Cuaron, Roma
Best Actress (tie) — Glenn Close, The Wife and Lady Gaga, A Star is Born
Best Actor — Christian Bale, Vice
Best Motion Picture — Roma
Television
Best Supporting Actor (Drama) — Noah Emmerich, The Americans
Best Supporting Actress (Drama) — Thandie Newton, Westworld
Best Supporting Actor (Comedy) — Henry Winkler, Barry
Best Supporting Actress (Comedy) — Alexis Borstein, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Best Supporting Actor (Limited Series or Made-For-TV Movie): Ben Whishaw, A Very English Scandal
Best Supporting Actress (Limited Series or Made-For-TV Movie): Patricia Clarkson, Sharp Objects
Best Movie Made For Television — Jesus Christ Superstar Live In Concert
Best Animated Series — BoJack Horseman
Best Actor (Limited Series or Movie Made-For-TV): Darren Criss, American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace
Best Actress (Limited Series or Movie Made-For-TV): (Tie) Amy Adams, Sharp Objects and Patricia Arquette, Escape at Dannemora
Best Actor (Comedy Series) — Bill Hader, Barry
Best Actress (Comedy Series) — Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Best Actor (Drama Series) — Matthew Rhys, The Americans
Best Actress (Drama Series) — Sandra Oh, Killing Eve
Best Limited Series — American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace
Best TV Drama Series — The Americans
Best TV Comedy Series — The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
The Kansas City Film Critics Circle Announces Their Picks For The Best of 2018
And here they are!
Best Picture: ROMA and The Favourite (tie)
Robert Altman Award for Best Director: Alfonso Cuarón, ROMA
Runner-up: Paul Schrader, First Reformed
Best Actor: Christian Bale, Vice and Ethan Hawke, First Reformed (tie)
Best Actress: Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Runner-up: Yalitza Aparicio, Roma
Best Supporting Actor: Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Runner-up: Timothée Chalamet, Beautiful Boy
Best Supporting Actress: Amy Adams, Vice
Runner-up: Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie, Leave No Trace
Best Adapted Screenplay: BlacKkKlansman
Runner-up: Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Best Original Screenplay: The Favourite
Runner-up: Eighth Grade
Best Animated Feature: Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse
Runners-up: Incredibles 2 and Isle of Dogs (tie)
Best Foreign-Language Film: ROMA
Runner-up: Cold War
Best Documentary: Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Runner-up: Free Solo
Vince Koehler Award for Best Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror Film: A Quiet Place
Runner-up: Sorry to Bother You
Tom Poe Award for Best LGBTQ Film: Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Runner-up: Love, Simon
The Las Vegas Film Critics Society Names Roma The Best of 2018!
On Friday, the Las Vegas Film Critics named Roma the best film of 2018!
Best Picture
“Roma”
Best Actor
Ethan Hawke, “First Reformed”
Best Actress
Lady Gaga, “A Star is Born”
Best Supporting Actor
Sam Elliott, “A Star is Born”
Best Supporting Actress
Regina King – “If Beale Street Could Talk”
Best Director
Alfonso Cuarón, “Roma”
Best Original Screenplay
Bryan Woods, Scott Beck & John Kransinski, “A Quiet Place”
Best Adapted Screenplay
Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini, “Leave No Trace”
Best Cinematography
Alfonso Cuarón, “Roma”
Best Film Editing
Alfonso Cuarón and Adam Gough, “Roma”
Best Score
Thom Yorke, “Suspiria”
Best Song
“Shallow,” by Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper, “A Star is Born”
Best Documentary
“Won’t You Be My Neighbor”
Best Animated Film
“Isle of Dogs”
Best Foreign Film
“Roma”
Best Costume Design
“The Favourite”
Best Art Direction
“Isle of Dogs”
Best Visual Effects
“Ready Player One”
Best Action Film
“Mission Impossible: Fallout”
Best Comedy
“Sorry to Bother You”
Best Horror/ Sci-Fi
A Quiet Place”
Best Family Film
“Mary Poppins Returns”
Best Ensemble
“Widows”
Breakout Filmmaker (Director)
Bradley Cooper, “A Star is Born”
Best Youth Male Performance
Ed Oxenbould, Wildlife”
Best Youth Female Performance
Elsie Fisher, “Eighth Grade”
The William Holden Lifetime Achievement Award
Sam Elliott
LVFCS Top 10 Films of 2018
1. Roma
2. A Star is Born
3. Green Book
4. First Reformed
5. BlackkKlansman
6. The Favourite
7. Vice
8. Eighth Grade
9. Wildlife
10. The Rider
The Phoenix Critics Circles Rises From The Ashes To Announce Their Nominations For The Best of 2018
Earlier today, the Phoenix Critics Circle rose from the ashes of this year and announced their nominations for the best of 2018. They really liked The Favourite. They also liked First Reformed and Eighth Grade, both of which could use the help after being snubbed by those SAG bastards yesterday.
BEST PICTURE
The Favourite
First Reformed
Roma
A Star is Born
Vice
BEST COMEDY FILM
Eighth Grade
The Favourite
Game Night
Sorry to Bother You
Vice
BEST SCIENCE FICTION FILM
Annihilation
A Quiet Place
Ready Player One
Sorry to Bother You
Upgrade
BEST HORROR FILM
Halloween
Hereditary
Mandy
Quiet Place
Suspiria (oh, fuck you, Phoenix)
BEST ANIMATED FILM
The Incredibles 2
Isle of Dogs
Miral
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Burning
Cold War
Dogman
Roma
Shoplifters
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Free Solo
Minding the Gap
RBG
Three Identical Strangers
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
BEST MOVIE BASED ON A COMIC BOOK OR GRAPHIC NOVEL
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Avengers: Infinity War
Black Panther
Deadpool 2
Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse
BEST ACTOR
Christian Bale, Vice
Bradley Cooper, A Star is Born
Ethan Hawke, First Reformed
Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody
John David Washington, BlacKkKlansman
BEST ACTRESS
Yalitza Aparicio, Roma
Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Toni Collette, Hereditary
Lady Gaga, A Star is Born
Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Mahershala Ali, Green Book
Adam Driver, BlacKkKlansman
Richard E Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Michael B Jordan, Black Panther
Sam Rockwell, Vice
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams, Vice
Claire Foy, First Man
Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
Emma Stone, The Favourite
Rachel Weisz, The Favourite
BEST DIRECTOR
Alfonso Cuaron, Roma
Yorgos Lanthimos, The Favourite
Spike Lee, BlacKkKlansman
Adam McKay, Vice
Paul Schrader, First Reformed
BEST SCREENPLAY
Bo Burnham, Eighth Grade
Deborah Davis & Tony McNamara, The Favourite
Spike Lee, David Robinowitz, Charlie Wachtel and Kevin Willmott, BlacKkKlansman
Adam McKay, Vice
Paul Schrader, First Reformed
BEST SCORE
Nicholas Britell, If Beale Street Could Talk
Alexandre Desplat, Isle of Dogs
Ludwig Goransson, Black Panther
Justin Hurwitz, First Man
Thom Yorke, Suspiria
Ethan Hawke and Regina King Are Snubbed By The SAG
On Wednesday morning, the SAG announced their nominations for the best of 2018.
The SAG nominations are usually a fairly good precursor of what will actually be nominated when the Oscar nominations are announced. (For instance, last year, no one was paying much attention to Christopher Plummer until he picked up a SAG nom.) This year, the nominations are a little bit strange in that neither Regina King nor Ethan Hawke received nominations, despite dominating the critics awards. While King’s campaign can probably recover from being snubbed, Hawke may be in trouble. He’s now been snubbed by both the Golden Globes and the SAG.
A lot of people are shocked that Bohemian Rhapsody picked up a nomination for Best Ensemble. I’m not. Bohemian Rhapsody is the type of crowd pleaser that often defies the critics and sneaks into the Oscars.
For me, the big news is that Black Panther is still showing a lot of strength. That nomination for Best Ensemble was not necessarily expected and it goes to show that Black Panther may have the backing necessary to become the first comic book film to be nominated for best picture.
Anyway, here are the weird SAG film nominations:
Outstanding Performance By a Cast in a Motion Picture
“A Star Is Born”
“Black Panther”
“BlacKkKlansman”
“Bohemian Rhapsody”
“Crazy Rich Asians”
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role in a Motion Picture
Bradley Cooper, “A Star is Born”
Christian Bale, “Vice”
Rami Malek, “Bohemian Rhapsody”
Viggo Mortensen, “Green Book”
John David Washington, “BlacKkKlansman”
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role in a Motion Picture
Emily Blunt, “Mary Poppins Returns”
Glenn Close, “The Wife”
Olivia Colman, “The Favourite”
Lady Gaga, “A Star is Born”
Melissa McCarthy, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Mahershala Ali, “Green Book”
Timothee Chalamet, “Beautiful Boy”
Adam Driver, “BlacKkKlansman”
Sam Elliott, “A Star is Born”
Richard E. Grant, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Amy Adams, “Vice”
Emily Blunt, “A Quiet Place”
Margot Robbie, “Mary Queen of Scots”
Emma Stone, “The Favourite”
Rachel Weisz, “The Favourite”
Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture
“Ant-Man and the Wasp”
“Avengers: Infinity War”
“The Ballad of Buster Scruggs”
“Black Panther”
“Mission: Impossible – Fallout”
Through the Shattered Lens 