After my first review of Labyrinth posted earlier today it was suggested to me that perhaps I should not see or review fantasy films, as I am particularly averse to them.  There is logic in that suggestion, but I don’t want […]

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While I have been a big fan of the Oscars since the 1970s I have paid less attention to them in recent years.  I cannot say why, except that some of the nominated films have not piqued my interest.  This […]

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This week I was struck by one theme figuring prominently in two radically disparate movies.  Both Nope and Vengeance have characters question whether events that are not recorded are real.  That’s an exaggeration, of course; what they are questioning is whether such […]

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The main reason I began the print version of Filmbobbery in 1999 was to cover the Academy Awards, both before and after.  For a couple of years previously I had put together Oscar preview and aftermath newsletters, with in-depth nomination […]

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I will, in the near future, discuss my reaction to the 2021 Oscar telecast (for the 2020 awards), which was a decidedly hit-and-miss affair, to my eyes, and which, in microcosm, is reflected through one of its segments, the “In […]

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The time has come, finally.  The 2020 Oscars are here, tonight, and it is time to make my annual predictions.  Readers who have followed me for these many years know that I am not particularly good at these predictions; if […]

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The day of the year I so look forward to is here, the day of the Oscar nominations.  I have had a tradition for decades of compiling my list of predictions for those nominations (I love the Oscars) and then […]

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After seven months away from theaters I finally made my way back to one yesterday, and am planning to return as often as I can to catch up on 2020 release reviews and enjoy filmgoing once again. However, I want […]

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When I first formulated the newsletter that became Filmbobbery back in the 1990s, it was because of the Oscars. It evolved into before- and after- issues, and then a quarterly journal which celebrated film, with two issues that continued to […]

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As the new year begins I want to take stock of this website. It contains more than one thousand posts, but most of these are Recent Releases, dating back to 2011. The things that made writing the print version of […]

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