Cricket Conversations: Does The King’s Speech (2010) Suck?

Citizen Kelvin and I are usually pretty close to on the same page when it comes to our opinions of movies. But over the last few weeks, we’ve realized that our assessments of Tom Hooper’s Best Picture-winning film The King’s Speech are far from aligned. We thought our discussion might be worth sharing so here it is […]

A Short(ish) Note with Graphs and Figures on Why the Oscars Matter

The other day, I was having a discussion with a friend about how there seems to be a growing divergence between the movies that most Americans see and those that the Academy honors with a Best Picture (or, really, any) nomination. It’s certainly true that, for as long as I have been paying attention, the […]