My Own 88th Annual Academy Awards – Part II (Their Nominees)

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by Brian Surber

Hello again! Here is Part II of My Own 88th Annual Academy Awards were I pick the winners of the actual nominees. I have ranked all the nominees in order of what I would vote for.

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[Episode 103] Oh Pod, That Sucked II: The Worst Films of 2015

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Oh, It’s a Podcast presents…Oh Pod, That Sucked II: The Worst Films of 2015. Brian and Noah continue their personal roads to the Oscars with a bracing shot of negativity.

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Film Review – Spectre

By Brian Surber

Follow-ups are hard. Making The Dark Knight Rises, The Matrix Reloaded, Jaws 2, Weekend at Bernie’s II, The Hobbit, and countless others was probably very hard. What is timeless about the James Bond franchise is that there really aren’t any follow-ups. Each sequel is, more or less, its own story. Spectre, the 24th film in the franchise, is a direct follow-up to the 2012 global sensation Skyfall and, while the film’s problems don’t completely rest on the continuation of Skyfall’s storyline, it does appear the film is so damn concerned with making that film, and Daniel Craig’s two previous appearances as Bond, connect, that Spectre forgets to be a movie all its own. “You are a kite dancing in a hurricane, Mr. Bond.” Unfortunately for the audience, Spectre is too.

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