TRAVIS BYRAM'S MOVIE REVIEWS

What an odd awards season it's been so far. A middle-of-the-road Queen biopic bested Black Panther , A Star Is Born and BlacKkKlansman for the best drama of the year at the Globes, crowd-pleaser Green Book took Best Comedy and Best Production from the PGA Awards, and the Netflix darling Roma took the Critic's Choice Award for Best Picture. Neither Green Book or Roma are up for Best Ensemble at the SAGs. It's a true shot in the dark for who's taking home Best Picture, as opposed to the pitting of two films against each other we've gotten the past few years ( Three Billboards... vs. Shape of Water , La La Land vs. Moonlight , Spotlight vs.  Revenant ) and I love it! Nobody will be so sure who's getting what on Oscar night. Before the nominations are announced tomorrow, here are my picks. BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: The Favourite First Reformed Green Book Roma Eighth Grade (my generation, the ones raised on writer/director Bo Burnham's hysterical ...

2018 was indicative of many things: the biggest being departure. I said goodbye to the comforts of college back in May, where I was working on my own script called "Black Chicken." I told myself that's why I wasn't working on this blog, because all of my creative attention was being poured into my senior project. But honestly, seven months after I graduated, I realized I had lost the lust for this little website. Why review superhero movies when everyone's already going to see them? I thought. The act of critiquing or lauding someone's art has left me. Nothing I wrote last year came close to the buzz of creating, of sculpting a character's jokes or figuring out where to put my B plot. I hope this is temporary, as movie reviewing is what's kept me active here on Blogspot. But for now, it might be for a while, as I hope to turn to making art instead of just writing about how bad I want to be these actors, these directors, these storytellers. That asid...