Robyn
2022 Oscar Nominations: Final Predictions
There were a lot of things I was grateful for in 2021: vaccines, more traveling opportunities, and a spate of new movies that weren't...
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Robyn
- Apr 24, 2021
- 3 min
Final Oscar Predictions 2021
And thus concludes what feels like the longest Oscar season in all of history. Phew. Last spring, there were questions of whether there...
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Robyn
- Mar 13, 2021
- 3 min
2021 Oscar Nominations: Final Predictions
What a year. Last February, when I screamed and jumped off my couch following Parasite's dark horse Best Picture win, I could not have...
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Robyn
- Dec 30, 2020
- 6 min
Top 10 Films of 2020
Top 10 TV Films Released in 2020 10. The Wolf House I have never seen animation as transfixing (or, frankly, exhausting) as the...
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Robyn
- Dec 29, 2020
- 6 min
Top 10 TV Series of 2020
Top 10 TV Series Released in 2020 10. Visible: Out on Television Apple TV+'s first great original program, five-part docuseries Visible:...
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Robyn
- Feb 9, 2020
- 2 min
Final Oscar Predictions 2020
I’ve written a lot about the Oscars in the past 12 months: I implored voters to recognize feminist musical dramas, I highlighted how...
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Robyn
- Jan 12, 2020
- 2 min
2020 Oscar Nominations: Final Predictions
Oscar nomination day is one of my favorite days of the year. When I lived in LA, I used to get up at 5 am to prepare for the early...
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Robyn
- Dec 28, 2019
- 6 min
Top 10 TV Series of 2019
Top 10 TV Series Released in 2019 10. Harley Quinn Harley Quinn is the story of what happens when a woman’s ego happens to be as inflated...
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Robyn
- Dec 23, 2019
- 6 min
Top 10 Films of 2019
Top 10 Films Released in 2019 10. Good Boys There's something to be said for laughing your ass off in the movie theater. My number 10...
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Robyn
- Feb 23, 2019
- 2 min
Final Oscar Predictions 2019
This was a busy year for me and the Academy Awards! First, I started prognosticating for Movie City News’ Gurus o’ Gold series and then...
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Robyn
- Jan 21, 2019
- 2 min
2019 Oscar Nominations: Final Predictions
Tomorrow morning is my version of Christmas. I get up early, bubbling over with anticipation, and wait nervously for the inevitable joy...
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Robyn
- Dec 30, 2018
- 6 min
Top 10 TV Series of 2018
Top 10 TV Series Released in 2018 10. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat A friend recently described chef Samin Nosrat to me as "The New Anthony...
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Robyn
- Dec 30, 2018
- 5 min
Top 10 Films of 2018
Top 10 films Released in 2018 10. The Tale There’s a moment in Jennifer Fox’s The Tale that is so real and so startling, I’ll never be...
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Robyn
- Mar 3, 2018
- 3 min
Final Oscar Predictions 2018
2017: The year I was never so happy to be so wrong. When Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty announced La La Land Best Picture, no one in the...
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Robyn
- Jan 22, 2018
- 2 min
2018 Oscar Nominations: Final Predictions
Tomorrow is my version of Christmas. I get up early in the morning, giddy with excitement, and I wait for catharsis after a year’s worth...
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Robyn
- Jan 4, 2018
- 5 min
Top 10 TV Series of 2017
Top 10 TV Series Released in 2017 10. I Love Dick Jill Soloway’s brilliant micro-series about art, desire, and aging simply scorches:...
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Robyn
- Jan 2, 2018
- 4 min
Top 10 Films of 2017
Top 10 films Released in 2017 10. Battle of the Sexes Can we just pretend Emma Stone won her Oscar for this one instead of Blah-Blah...
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Robyn
- Mar 15, 2017
- 4 min
“Toni Erdmann” and the Burdens of Womanhood
You were lied to. Toni Erdmann is not a comedy. Sure, German director Maren Ade’s Oscar-nominated ode to fatherhood (and daughterhood) is...
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Robyn
- Feb 25, 2017
- 3 min
Final Oscar Predictions 2017
I’ll be honest – 2016 was not my favorite year for film. While movies like American Honey, The Edge of Seventeen, Moonlight, and...
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Robyn
- Nov 6, 2016
- 7 min
Top 10 Nontraditional Horror Films
Is it possible to be a horror fan and not really enjoy most capital-h “Horror” movies? Well, let me back up for a second. I actually do...
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