So Oscar has moved their ceremony pretty much right on the anniversary that I have rolled out the Marco Awards since their inception, which takes a little of the steam out of my Movie Awards. Thanks Oscar. So I pushed the Movies, which used to be the lead-off of the three, to after TV, and … Read more
This annual wrap up becomes a bit more challenging each year, not only because movies have become so predictable (as well as so brutally violant and so damn long–and I’m not just looking at you, Wicked for Mediocre, I’m hard pressed to find a film under an excrutiating 2 hours and 45 minutes running time), … Read more
What a difference a year makes. Holiday Season 2024 brought us the movie musical that Broadway fans have been clamoring for with 20 years of anticipation and drool. Well, at least half of it, as my review of Wicked, Part 1 elaborated on. Stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande-Butera (who used her full name because … Read more
This past Sunday evening, excellence and art took center stage as the cultural heartbeat of the nation welcomed the brightest stars of a generation for the 2025 Kennedy Center Honors. It’s a night dedicated to artistry, impact, and legacy, and it all began on the red carpet. The parade of cultural icons, in comparatively conservative … Read more
It’s 2025. And while life has pretty much returned to normal as far as our entertainment habits, it’s obvious that our viewing habits have changed. The criteria for going to the movies for most is stricter now that we’ve spent years watching first run movies immediately to weeks later on our home screens. Virtually no … Read more
I keep forgetting the Oscars are coming up since they moved the date up a month. Plus, with all the awards out there, they sadly don’t seem so exciting as they used to. Now the Globes go into the BAFTAs goes into the SAGs and who even knows anymore. Plus there were so many external factors … Read more
In one week it’s broken box office records for movie musicals. It’s the entertainment news of the week, the theatrical event of the season, and for the first time ever, it’s not just musical theatre fanatics losing their minds over the decades-long anticipated release of the movie. It’s fans of the MGM classic The Wizard … Read more
So it’s 2024, three years since the hopeless time I introduced the Marco Awards to lighten the collective mood. Here, I nominate and reward the best entertainment that’s been streamed directly into my home for free. And since most people have completely run the gamut dry, compounded by subsequent writers’ and actors’ strikes, I still … Read more
Today is the anniversary of Covid, which I have selected in 2021 as the traditional first day of the Marco Awards to commemorate the new streaming media. But the Oscars are messing with that schedule, moving them to the weekend before my big Awards for the second year in a row. It’s too much information … Read more
I keep forgetting the Oscars are coming up since they moved the date up a month. Plus, with the post-Covid neorealist disenchantment with entertainment awards and the fact that there are so many on the junket now. It used to be the Golden Globes were “an indicator”. Now the Globes go into the BAFTAs goes … Read more