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BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE Featurette

#InsidetheBucket Podcast #113

This week's episode of Inside the Bucket is online! Revel in the digital mastery! On this bigger, bolder, smellier version of Inside the Bucket , Matt and Brandon gather to give you all this week's movie and television news and reviews from our website SANDWICHJOHNFILMS.COM . Already dripping with SJF ballsy grease, the boys endeavor to discuss several items of supposed importance. This week, they reflect on last Sunday's Oscar winners and debate whether the awards ceremony still has value. Then it's on to this week's box office report, as Matt gives us a historical breakdown of the importance behind Logan 's dominating opening weekend. The boys also discuss movies hitting Blu-ray this week. After a quick bladder break, it's on to Rants and Raves, where the boys bitch and gripe about all the things they've been watching a reading about this week. See our show notes to see what's bothering Brandon and Matt this week. The show ends w

Here Are Your Winners Of The 89th Annual Academy Awards

Here’s the complete list of this year’s winners. BEST PICTURE Arrival Fences Hacksaw Ridge Hell Or High Water Hidden Figures La La Land Lion Manchester By The Sea **Moonlight BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE **Casey Affleck (“Manchester By The Sea”) Andrew Garfield (“Hacksaw Ridge”) Ryan Gosling (“La La Land”) Viggo Mortensen (“Captain Fantastic”) Denzel Washington (“Fences”) BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE ** Mahershala Ali (“Moonlight”) Jeff Bridges (“Hell Or High Water”) Lucas Hedges (“Manchester By The Sea”) Dev Patel (“Lion”) Michael Shannon (“Nocturnal Animals”) BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE Isabelle Huppert (“Elle”) Ruth Negga (“Loving”) Natalie Portman (“Jackie”) Emma Stone (“La La Land”) Meryl Streep (“Florence Foster Jenkins”) BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE ** Viola Davis (“Fences”) Naomie Harris (“Moonlight”) Nicole Kidman (“Lion”) Octavia Spencer (“Hidden Figures”) Michelle Williams (“Manchester By The Sea”) BEST DIRECTOR De

Birdman Soars at Oscars

Offbeat showbiz satire bests Boyhood. By Brandon Wolfe The 87th Annual Academy Awards initially seemed like a horse race, but it wound up being strictly for the birds, as Birdman took home the prizes for Best Picture, Best Director for Alejandro González Iñárritu and Best Original Screenplay. Up until recently, Richard Linklater’s sublime Boyhood seemed like it had the Best Picture and Best Director categories all sewn up, but Birdman experienced a major resurgence in recent weeks, collecting several other major film awards in the lead-up to the Oscars. It would seem that the more insular showbiz milieu of Iñárritu’s surrealistic film struck a stronger chord with those in the film industry than did Linklater’s more universal film. The one prize that Birdman didn’t take home was the one that it initially seemed to have in the bag: Best Actor for Michael Keaton. The former Batman went home empty-handed as Eddie Redmayne won for his striking performance as Stephen Hawking i