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British Lawyers Slam Turkish Human Rights Record, Cameron Continues To Urge EU Membership
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Sarkis Zeronian
A damning report written by senior British lawyers has found Turkey's government inflicts "systematic human rights violations" on its judiciary, police and media.
At 95 pages long the dossier sets out allegations that the government of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has interfered across Turkey to produce "supine" courts, censored websites, restricted freedom of expression, stifled corruption investigations and subjected detainees to degrading treatment, reports The Guardian.
The report was commissioned by an exiled opponent of President Erdoğan but was produced by senior British lawyers of some repute.
Former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales Lord Woolf, Conservative MP and former Solicitor General of England and Wales Sir Edward Garnier QC, the Director of the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law Prof Sir Jeffrey Jowell QC and Sarah Palin, a barrister specialising in human rights and media law all wrote the report.
The project was funded by the U.S.-based Journalist and Writers Foundation whose honorary chairman is the Islamic cleric Fethullah Gülen. Once a former ally of Erdoğan he is now a fierce critic.
The report is based on documentary evidence rather than first hand experience or witness interviews, but records repeated breaches of human rights beginning with allegations of corruption made against Erdoğan and his close circle of ministers in December 2013. It estimates approximately 40,000 police officers, civil servants, judges and public prosecutors have been removed from office since the corruption investigation.
Dating the worsening of human rights in Turkey to the government's response to the Gezi Park demonstrations against the government in 2013 (pictured above), the report states:
"We have analysed the actions taken by the Turkish government and its agents since December 2013 and have unanimously concluded that there has been a distinct reversal in the reform process that had been taking place since Turkey began accession talks with the European Union in 2005…
"We regard this as a serious setback for Turkish democracy and its respect for human rights, in particular for the freedom of speech and the rule of law.
"From the perspective of international human rights law, we consider that the Turkish government has perpetrated significant human rights violations against supporters of the Gülen movement that would justify legal action before the European Court of Human Rights, in the absence of suitable remedies in Turkey…
"…The arrest and detention of journalists, media executives, police officers, public prosecutors and judges who are perceived to be supporters of the Hizmet [Gülen] movement, and their treatment in custody, has raised serious concerns about violations of their right to liberty and security."
Sir Edward Garnier told the Guardian: "Given the way the [Turkish] courts are being undermined… there's an absence of any realistic prospect of a remedy in the domestic courts… It's possible, we believe, for those who are aggrieved to go directly to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)."
Last year, Turkey came second to Russia in the number of ECHR judgments confirming human rights violations. Such matters, along with the findings of the report, damage the case for Turkey's accession to the European Union notwithstanding cheerleaders for that policy such as Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron.
Cameron has said he wants to "pave the road" for Turkey to join the EU, saying the country was "vital for our economy, vital for our security and vital for our diplomacy". In his opinion a European Union without Turkey at its heart is "not stronger but weaker… not more secure but less… not richer but poorer".
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Live from Toronto: Songs in the Key of Eh is het eerste livealbum van de Amerikaanse ska-punkband Mad Caddies. Het album werd opgenomen op 17 maart 2004 in The Opera House in Toronto, Canada. Het album werd op 21 augustus 2004 uitgegeven door het label Fat Wreck Chords.

Nummers
 "Intro" - 1:46
 "Macho Nachos" - 3:39
 "10 West" - 2:54
 "Leavin" - 2:51
 "Weird Beard" - 2:52
 "No Hope" - 1:33
 "Contraband" - 1:18
 "Monkeys" - 3:25
 "Days Away/The Bell Tower/Popcorn/Days Away" - 6:26
 "The Gentleman" - 2:23
 "Villains" - 2:21
 "Last Breath" - 3:07
 "Mary Melody" - 3:28
 "Drinking For 11" - 3:45
 "Preppie Girl" - 3:03
 "Mum's The Word" - 1:30
 "Road Rash" - 2:03
 "Silence" - 2:45
 "All American Badass" - 5:29

Muziekalbum uit 2004
Muziekalbum van Mad Caddies
Muziekalbum uitgegeven door Fat Wreck Chords
Livealbum

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With U.S. Congressman James P. McGovern
To me, being a Member of Congress is about helping people. …
We Can End Hunger in America
The coronavirus pandemic has shined a bright light on the hunger crisis happening across the United States. 50 million Americans may experience food insecurity because of COVID-19. Our food banks have seen a more than 50% increase in demand, with 4 in 10 people turning to these resources for the…
Rules in Review: My Work as Chairman of the Rules Committee During the 116th Congress
We started the 116th Congress inheriting a Republican-led government shutdown; the first time a shutdown began in one Congress and was passed to the next. We ended in the midst of a global pandemic the likes of which our nation hasn't seen in more than 100 years.
Despite these challenges…
McGovern Congratulates 2020 Nobel Prize Recipient the World Food Program
As submitted for publication in the Congressional Record
Madam Speaker, today, December 10th, International Human Rights Day, at 7:00 AM Eastern Time, the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in Oslo, Norway to the World Food Program (WFP) for its outstanding humanitarian work to feed the world's hungriest and most…
McGovern Advocates for Grandfamily Housing, Radon Testing and Mitigation Funding Before House Appropriations Subcommittee
On June 23, 2020, Congressman Jim McGovern (MA-02) submitted the following testimony to the House Appropriations Committee advocating for increased funding for two important housing priorities that impact Central and Western Massachusetts:
I want to thank Madam Chair Lowey and Ranking Member Granger for allowing me this opportunity. As the…
To Regain Our Credibility on Human Rights, America Must Start At Home
Scrolling through social media recently, you could be excused for confusing America with the authoritarian regimes the United States government regularly calls out for failing to respect the human rights of their people. …
On the Anniversary of Tiananmen Protests, Trump Seeks to Emulate China's Authoritarianism in America
On June 4, 1989, Chinese authorities unleashed the People's Liberation Army to crush the peaceful protesters who had gathered in Tiananmen Square. The events of that day are etched into our collective memory, captured by the image of one lone man standing before a tank. …
The coronavirus crisis is placing a tremendous strain on the small businesses which serve as the backbone of our economy. As the son of small business owners and a supporter of eating, shopping…
More Information About the Three Bipartisan COVID-19 Response Packages Passed by Congress
An Overview of All Three Emergency Packages can be found here. More detailed information on each package can be found below.
Congressman Jim McGovern (D-MA) Delivers Remarks on the 25th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Thank you for that kind introduction. I'm grateful to be here, and I'm proud to stand alongside so many of you who are working so hard in our community to keep the vision of Dr. King alive.
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Islamic State Money: ISIS To Mint Its Own Currency And Create 'Financial System'
By Alessandria Masi @alessandriamasi
Militant Islamist fighters take part in a military parade along the streets of Syria's northern Raqqa province June 30, 2014. Photo: Reuters
Surviving under Islamic State group rule is about to get much more complicated. The militant group's "Treasury Department" announced Thursday that it would soon begin minting its own silver, gold and copper coins. And with that statement, the official Islamic State Financial System has been launched.
The currency will free ISIS members from the "tyrannical monetary system that was imposed on the Muslims and was a reason for their enslavement and impoverishment, and the wasting the fortunes of the Ummah [the community of Muslims worldwide], making it easy prey in the hands of the Jews and Crusaders," according to a translation via the Site Intelligence Group.
#Iraq | #ISIS says the new currency will take the group out of "the oppressors money system" pic.twitter.com/FLLtTBNiyJ
— الرقة تذبح بصمت (@Raqqa_Sl) November 13, 2014
ISIS will circulate six different coin denominations of its currency, the dinar or dirham, which it said will be help buy supplies for the allegedly expanding caliphate, according to a statement issued on a jihadi forum. The militant group's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi recently issued an audio recording claiming the caliphate had spread to Yemen, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt's Sinai peninsula.
The statement did not mention how the currency would allow ISIS to buy more supplies, nor if it would be used in trade or how it would convert in other countries. The U.S. Treasury Department said the militant group is among the "best-funded" terror organizations; a large portion of its income comes from selling oil from seized oil fields. Those living in ISIS-controlled territory currently use the Iraqi dinar, the Syrian pound or, for trade purposes, the U.S. dollar.
ISIS-affiliated social media accounts celebrated what they said was good news for the caliphate. No one questioned how they would obtain money that would soon be needed for survival in the caliphate. They appear to trust the 'Treasury Department,' which said it would "organize the minting, how to obtain the money, its value, and the relationship between its different categories and how to deal with it," according to the statement.
Various reproductions of what the coins will look like were disseminated over social media. On one side of the coin the words "Islamic State" are written in the center. The flip side varies depending on the value. The five-dinar gold coin has a map of the world and the one-dinar gold coin is pictured with an etching of wheat stalks. The 10-dirham coin has a photo of the al-Aqsa Mosque and one of the two copper coins is emblazoned with a crescent moon.
The ISIS Shura Council in theory has final say on the group's major decision. Among the 9 to 11 members of the council is the head of ISIS Finance Council Muafaq Mohammed al-Karmoush, or Abu Salah. He was not mentioned in the statement.
ISIS Says Leader Announces Expansion Of Caliphate
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We are always keen for our families and communities to become independent and so if they develop a sound business plan (sometimes with our support, other times on their own initiative), we do our best to help them get the skills and capital to start the businesses. We have had several families do that including tailoring businesses, chicken farming and mushroom farming.
We also working with communities to help establish sustainable cooperatives and businesses together, resulting in a very success organic farming program in Anaikot which continues to expand and support more families and learning.
The families work together to share their experience and ideas and we have been working with some permaculture experts to give us ideas on organic, natural ideas. As we are working directly with the farmers, we have been able to cut out about 3 levels of middlemen and so we have paid the farmers the rate the middlemen get. Farm fresh spinach and coriander for our families in Kathmandu, extra money for our farming partners – happy teams all round. In fact, the demand for their products has been so high that often we miss out! We also added some fruit trees which help with water retention as our villages had been facing water shortages after the water table moved following the earthquakes in 2015. One of our farmers attended 3 days of organic farming training and was keen to try this out with some fruit farming. The families in this cooperative have also been supporting each other in different ways such as reconstruction of their homes which they all lost during the quakes. The community spirit and sharing of ideas, time, expertise and support between the families has been fantastic.
In another successful business, our women in Bhaktapur had bucketloads of skills but no experience with commercialising them or marketing them. One of their core skills and passions is knitting.
With winter looming and lots of cold feet around, we aimed to help them establish a sustainable knitting business by placing an initial order for 150 pairs of woollen socks for our kids. This gave the women the confidence to get started and some capital to get going without us simply giving it to them. We brainstormed their business model, target market and route to market with some of our class 12 marketing students as a practical project for them to test out the theory they were learning.
One unexpected side-effect of the business was the energy levels and overall health improvements of the women as they essentially created "knitting circles" to deliver the order in time. It changed their conversation from the challenges they were facing to excitement for the business and we noticed a significant increase in their positive energy.
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Q: RCP part is open as dirty when a radioButton Selected I am using Mdirtyable in my code. I want that when user chose a different radiobutton, the part will be dirty(*). There is a group of radiobutton on a part in my design. One of the radiobutton is default selected. The problem is that when the code runned, the part open as dirty. But I want that the part open as undirty and if the user chose a different radiobutton, the part will be dirty.
I'm using selectionListener for this. My example code part is below:
radioButton.addSelectionListener(new SelectionAdapter()
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Thank you,

A: Don't add the selection listener to the buttons until after you have set the initial default value. Or have a flag to say that you don't want the dirty to be set yet.

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Sinornithoides ("mající podobu ptáka z Číny") byl rod malého vývojově vyspělého teropodního dinosaura z čeledi Troodontidae, žijícího v období rané křídy (přelom geologických věků apt a alb) na území dnešní Číny (Autonomní oblast Vnitřní Mongolsko).

Historie
Fosilie tohoto dinosaura byly objeveny v roce 1988 v průběhu společné Čínsko-kanadské paleontologické expedice do pánve Ordos ve Vnitřním Mongolsku. Druh S. youngi popsala dvojice paleontologů Dale Russell a Tung Č'-ming v roce 1993 (resp. 1994) na základě holotypu IVPP V9612, poměrně kompletní kostry s lebkou. Fosilie byly objeveny v sedimentech souvrství Ejinhoro. Pravděpodobně šlo o subadultního (nedospělého) jedince, který zahynul v ležící "schoulené" pozici, podobně jako jiný čínský teropod Mei long.

Popis

Sinornithoides byl zástupce troodontidů a stejně jako většina jeho příbuzných vykazoval vzhled menšího, relativně štíhlého a hbitého dvounohého predátora. Na poměry dinosaurů byl vybaven relativně velkým mozkem a měl zřejmě bystré smysly a schopnost složitého chování. Byl malým opeřeným dinosaurem, který se zřejmě živil menšími obratlovci a bezobratlými. Jeho čelisti byly štíhlé, přední končetiny poměrně malé a útlé. Zadní končetiny byly naopak velmi silné a relativně dlouhé. Celkově dosahoval tento teropod délky kolem 1,1 metru a vážil pouze asi 2,5 kilogramu. Paleontolog Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. odhadl délku tohoto dinosaura až na 2 metry a hmotnost zhruba na 10 až 20 kilogramů.

Systematické zařazení
Sinornithoides youngi byl vývojově vyspělým troodontidem, a představoval zřejmě blízce příbuzný druh rodů Troodon, Byronosaurus, Saurornithoides a Zanabazar.

Reference

Literatura
 P. Senter, R. Barsbold, B. B. Britt, D. A. Burnham (2004). Systematics and evolution of Dromaeosauridae (Dinosauria, Theropoda). Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History 8: 1-20.
 T. Tsuihiji; et al. (2014). An exquisitely preserved troodontid theropod with new information on the palatal structure from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. Naturwissenschaften. doi: 10.1007/s00114-014-1143-9.

Externí odkazy

 Informace na webu Prehistoric Wildlife
 Profil dinosaura na webu Fossil Works

Plazopánví dinosauři
Teropodní dinosauři
Dinosauři z Asie


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Tag Archives: Black Panther
Posted on January 25, 2019 by MovieMinis Staff	Leave a comment
In chaotic times, film becomes more important. As a source of entertainment, as a mode of escape, as a reflection of identity and community, and as an empathy machine, film shapes plenty about how we navigate the world — and we need that when the world is full of whiplash.
In 2018, film guided us powerfully. From a little bear from darkest Peru to a domestic worker in Mexico City, from three skateboarders in the Rust Belt to an astronaut shooting for the moon, from a family on the edges of Tokyo to the King of Wakanda, the characters of these films asked us to reflect upon ourselves, and helped us learn about others in this world.
Simply put, it was a damn good year for movies, and we're grateful for how they've impacted not just us, but millions around the world. If even one film leaves something important with someone needing it, it's a testament to the power of the art form. But we're certain that more than a few films did that for more than a few people.
And it all calls for a little needed celebration, a little needed positivity. As that little bear says, "If we are kind and polite, the world will be right." Film was good to us, so here's some recognition for film.
Here are the MovieMini Awards for the Films of 2018:
(These awards were voted on and compiled by Rosemarie Alejandrino, Danielle Gutierrez, Levi Hill, Kyle Kizu, Michelle Lee, Miyako Singer, Harrison Tunggal, and Hooman Yazdanian.)
Best Specialty Performance
Winner: Ben Whishaw as Paddington — Paddington 2
Ben Whishaw's turn as a kind and deeply principled bear from darkest Peru may not be the buzziest performance in acclaimed masterpiece Paddington 2, but Whishaw's voice is the gentle glue that holds the movie together. He's tasked with making the bear cute, but not cloying, unwaveringly good, but never preachy — a CGI bear capable of silliness and sternness in equal measure. Whishaw achieves this by imbuing Paddington with his natural tender-yet-brisk Britishness. Paddington's matter of fact politeness makes the comedic scenes all the funnier for his total sincerity, and the tear jerking moments all the more heartrending. In Whishaw's hands (paws?), Paddington is — like his famous, prison reforming marmalade — the perfect mix of sweet and tart.
— Miyako Singer
Runner-up: Shameik Moore as Miles Morales — Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
3. Holly Hunter as Elastigirl — Incredibles 2
4. Jake Johnson as Peter B. Parker — Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
5. Sonoya Mizuno as Humanoid — Annihilation
Next Group:
Josh Brolin as Thanos — Avengers: Infinity War
Jim Cummings as Winnie the Pooh — Christopher Robin
Stephen Lang as Shrike — Mortal Engines
Brian Tyree Henry as Jefferson Davis — Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Nicolas Cage as Spider-Man Noir — Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Honorable Mention: Olivia as Good Doggo — Game Night/Widows
Best Breakthrough Performance
Winner: Yalitza Aparicio — Roma
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It'd be impossible to tell that Yalitza Aparicio is a first time actress, let alone someone with no formal training prior to starring in Roma. Her warmth is immediate, and only grows exponentially throughout the rest of the film. Just as Alfonso Cuarón renders the space three-dimensional, Aparicio makes it feel alive, navigating the house with confidence. Her chemistry with the family is delightful, but Aparicio is absolutely breathtaking during the delivery scene and the beach sequence. Roma is a film that makes you feel alive, as it's about life, and Aparicio is the beating heart.
— Kyle Kizu
Runner-up: Thomasin McKenzie — Leave No Trace
3. Kiki Layne — If Beale Street Could Talk
4. Elsie Fisher — Eighth Grade
5. Lady Gaga — A Star Is Born
Cynthia Erivo — Bad Times at the El Royale
John David Washington — BlacKkKlansman
Geraldine Viswanathan — Blockers
Brady Jandreau — The Rider
Lana Condor — To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Best Feature Debut
Winner: Bradley Cooper — A Star Is Born
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From the very opening shot of A Star Is Born — on-stage with Bradley Cooper's Jackson Maine in such visceral, wild, grimy, and adventurous close-up — we know we're in the hands of a director with complete confidence and control. The film is intimate and rough, raw and painful, and Cooper digs his hands into the blood of the material to find emotional truth. Whether it be the close-up of Ally and Jackson's hands touching in the convenience store parking lot, or the cross-cutting between Jackson on stage and Ally on her way to his concert before bursting into "Shallow," or the harrowing cut from Ally's performance at the end of the film to Jackson playing for her at home, Cooper's choices are staggeringly powerful.
Runner-up: Paul Dano — Wildlife
3. Ari Aster — Hereditary
4. Bo Burnham — Eighth Grade
5. Boots Riley — Sorry to Bother You
Carlos López Estrada — Blindspotting
Kay Cannon — Blockers
Gustav Möller — The Guilty
Josie Rourke — Mary Queen of Scots
Aneesh Chaganty — Searching
Best Original Song
Winner: "Shallow" — A Star Is Born
At this point in awards season, there's not much to be said about "Shallow" that hasn't already been said. It's nearly become a parody of itself, and the movie's meme-able reputation definitely precedes it — if only so it can take another look at the movie that follows.
But let us not forget that what makes a song most deserving of the Best Original Song title does not simply rely on the quality of the song itself; it requires a song to, yes, standalone, but to also amplify the moment of the film which it occupies. "Shallow" does not amplify only one moment of A Star is Born, but three: Ally's shy crooning in the parking lot, Jackson and Ally's first duet on stage, and Ally's solo piano performance before learning of Jackson's fate. And yet, beyond the film, the song itself has taken on new meaning as part of "Enigma," Lady Gaga's Las Vegas residency. She turns to the piano ballad to close her electrifying, synth-heavy and neon-laced live show, knighting the song of an anthem for defying expectations. "We're far from the shallow now," refers to breaking free from the status quo shallowness expected of a high-profile pop artist, a message both Ally and Lady Gaga declare with triumph.
So while Lady Gaga's projected victory for "Shallow" on Oscar night may read like the predictable end of a rote coming-of-age novel, let us not forget the first moment that Ally's voice cracked into the late-night Los Angeles air, hesitant but somehow firm, expelling from her lungs like the slow birth of a legacy in a convenience store parking lot.
— Rosemarie Alejandrino
Runner-up: "Sunflower" — Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
3. "Opps" — Black Panther
4. "Maybe It's Time" — A Star Is Born
5. "Suspirium" — Suspiria
"All the Stars" — Black Panther
"Pray For Me" — Black Panther
"A Cover Is Not the Book" — Mary Poppins Returns
"Always Remember Us This Way" — A Star Is Born
"Wrapped Up" — Vox Lux
Winner: Nicholas Britell — If Beale Street Could Talk
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Nicholas Britell's If Beale Street Could Talk score is unbearably beautiful. With lush, waning strings and fluttering, hopeful woodwinds, each piece of music is a stunning evocation of love — of love's strength, but also of love's painful journey. The score aches with many truths just as Jenkins' vision of Baldwin's characters do — "Eros" a transcendent piece of swelling intimacy and "Hypertension" a bone-rattling piece of soul-crushing fear and despair. And then, "Ye Who Enters Here" truly lives as the blend of such powerful lows and highs at once. Britell's music tells the story as much as any other part of If Beale Street Could Talk does. It's not simply there to accompany the film. It pushes the film to new heights. It talks.
Runner-up: Justin Hurwitz — First Man
3. Ludwig Göransson — Black Panther
4. Lorne Balfe — Mission: Impossible – Fallout
5. Thom Yorke — Suspiria
Mowg — Burning
Alexandre Desplat — Isle Of Dogs
Jóhann Jóhannsson — Mandy
Daniel Hart — The Old Man & the Gun
Alexandre Desplat — The Sisters Brothers
Winner: Mary H. Ellis, Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Ai-Ling Lee — First Man
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There's true depth to the sound mix of First Man. It's loud and brutal, but immersive and three-dimensional. The interior of the space crafts are made distinctly human through the mix, in that the rattling of the metal, the hard-to-hear radio buzz of astronaut communication, the sudden jerks and slashes, and even the gravity of sound are all meshed into a cohesive environment that can be fully lived-in. It's a symphonic nightmare.
Runner-up: Skip Lievsay, Craig Henighan, José Antonio García — Roma
3. Gilbert Lake, Mike Prestwood Smith, Paul Munro — Mission: Impossible – Fallout
4. Michael Barosky, Brandon Proctor — A Quiet Place
Tom Johnson, Juan Peralta, John Pritchett — Avengers: Infinity War
Michael Semanick, Nathan Nance, Vince Caro — Incredibles 2
Michael Semanick, Tony Lamberti, Brian Smith, Aaron Hasson, Howard London — Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Steve Morrow, Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic, Jason Ruder — A Star Is Born
Drew Kunin, Andrew Stirk — You Were Never Really Here
Winner: Ai-Ling Lee, Mildred Iatrou Morgan — First Man
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The First Man sound team went to incredible lengths to capture the accuracy of the sounds of spacecrafts, from recording actual launches to consulting the professionals for the minutiae of space travel. And it pays off immensely. Every created sound feels entirely organic to every environment — and often times because it was, with everything that the film does practically. But it's the most brutal effects that elevate the film, as we can feel the metal in our bones, just like the astronauts likely did.
Runner-up: James Mather — Mission: Impossible – Fallout
3. Skip Lievsay, Sergio Díaz — Roma
4. Ethan Van der Ryn, Erik Aadahl — A Quiet Place
5. Geoffrey G. Rubay, Curt Schulkey, John Pospisil — Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Glenn Freemantle, Niv Adiri —Annihilation
Shannon Mills, Daniel Laurie — Avengers: Infinity War
Benjamin A. Burtt, Steve Boeddeker — Black Panther
Coya Elliott, Ren Klyce — Incredibles 2
Gary Rydstrom, Richard Hymns — Ready Player One
Winner: Joel Harlow, Camille Friend, Ken Diaz — Black Panther
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The makeup and hairstyling work in Black Panther does what a lot of the other design work in the film does: it builds a world, and does so extremely thoroughly and organically. The hairstyling is distinct and varied, from the extravagant regal designs of Queen Ramonda (Angela Bassett) to the stylishly personal work for both Shuri (Letitia Wright) and Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan). And the makeup is prevalent, but not overt. The larger prosthetics are carefully utilized and integrated, such as with a tribe leader's mouth, and the facial designs breathe life to the characters, telling their own stories for each tribe and status. Combined, the film's work is innovative.
Runner-up: Nadia Stacey — The Favourite
3. Mark Coulier, Fernanda Perez, Manolo Garcia — Suspiria
4. Jenny Shircore, Marc Pilcher, Jessica Brooks — Mary Queen of Scots
5. Greg Cannom, Kate Biscoe, Patricia DeHaney — Vice
LaWanda M. Pierre, Shaun Perkins — BlacKkKlansman
Göran Lundström, Pamela Goldammer — Border
Heike Merker — Crazy Rich Asians
Bill Corso, Barbara Lorenz — Destroyer
Oriane De Neve — Mandy
To be honest, Ruth E. Carter earned this back in February of last year. Not to take away from any of the other wondrous world-building within the film, but the costume design is simply supreme. From the layout and layering of beads, to the various textures and colors of fabrics, to the infused metal, Carter's costumes are both steeped in the history of African clothing and evocative of what afrofuturism envisions, engaging with the past and the future simultaneously in the same way that the story does. But it's her scope and range that are difficult to put into words. The tribal clothing is so specific and so intuitive, declaring rank, but also declaring style and personality — and that's for multiple tribes, as well as for warrior armor and regal wear. And this all goes without mention of how incredibly badass and utterly gorgeous it all looks.
Runner-up: Sandy Powell — The Favourite
3. Caroline Eselin — If Beale Street Could Talk
4. Mary E. Vogt — Crazy Rich Asians
5. Sandy Powell — Mary Poppins Returns
Kym Barrett — Aquaman
Alexandra Byrne — Mary Queen of Scots
Lindy Hemming — Paddington 2
Renee Ehrlich Kalfus — A Simple Favor
Amanda Ford — Wildlife
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Best Production Design could also be known as "Best World Building," literally, as the production designer and set decorator are the people tasked — with the guidance of the film's director and screenwriter — in crafting the world of the film, fictional or authentically real. And this past year, the work of Hannah Beachler and Jay Hart in creating Wakanda is simply unrivaled.
Black Panther's success truly stems from its ability to let Wakanda, Oakland, and South Korea be vital locations and production sets for the story Coogler is telling. Every set, every design presents eye-popping creations, but with real-world authenticity. Yet, it was the first scene in which the audience is shown the fictional African country of Wakanda that we knew exactly who would be taking home this award. Beachler and Hart have created an awe-inspiring world, where futuristic high rises co-exist with classical African village designs. The look of Wakanda feels real, and honors the film's black identity, but is also willing to be highly original with its deep mines of vibranium and stunning throne rooms. Truly, because of the work these two crafted, as well as the film's direction, cinematography, costume design, and makeup, we'll always remember that first feeling of when we knew what "Wakanda Forever" meant.
— Levi Hill
Runner-up: Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton — The Favourite
3. Eugenio Caballero, Bárbara Enrı́quez — Roma
4. Nathan Crowley, Kathy Lucas — First Man
Martin Whist, Hamish Purdy — Bad Times at the El Royale
Nelson Coates, Andrew Baseman — Crazy Rich Asians
Adam Stockhausen, Paul Harrod — Isle of Dogs
Gary Williamson, Cathy Cosgrove — Paddington 2
Keiko Mitsumatsu, Akiko Matsuba — Shoplifters
Winner: Paul Lambert, J.D. Schwalm, Ian Hunter, Tristan Myles — First Man
First Man is a celebration of practical effects. From its various scales of models to its massive LED screens that play backgrounds of skies and space for in-camera capture, the film is invigoratingly tactile. We can sense real physics and real depth at play, which is immensely key to communicating the dangers of the Gemini and Apollo missions. That the film feels as though it truly takes us to space, through the genius of perspective as well as invisible CG and compositing, is an astounding accomplishment.
Runner-up: Dan Deleeuw, Kelly Port, Russell Earl, Dan Sudick — Avengers: Infinity War
3. Andrew Whitehurst, Sara Bennett, Richard Clarke, Simon Hughes — Annihilation
4. Nicholas Bennett, Rupert Davies, Andy Kind, Peter McDonald, Carlos Monzon, Glen Pratt — Paddington 2
5. Jason Smith — Bumblebee
Kelvin McIlwain, Jeff White, Bryan Hirota, Kimberly Nelson Locascio — Aquaman
Matt Johnson, Steve Warner, Jim Capobianco, Kyle McCulloch —Mary Poppins Returns
Jody Johnson — Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Roger Guyett, Grady Cofer, Matthew E. Butler, David Shirk — Ready Player One
Rob Bredow, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan, Dominic Tuohy —Solo: A Star Wars Story
Winner: Alfonso Cuarón — Roma
There's something initially objective and removed about Alfonso Cuarón's cinematography for Roma. There aren't many close-ups. Perspective is, occasionally, not attached too strongly to individual characters. It's almost as if the camera were a young boy watching from a distance.
And that's where it all clicks. As Cuarón's camera pans or tracks through space in unbroken takes, we become enveloped in something truly three-dimensional. "Lived in" is an overused phrase, but it's the most potent thing about Roma's photography. It breathes with life. It's lived in. It's memory.
There's such immense visual depth in this film, greater than what 3D could ever accomplish. But there's also warmth, connection, and love. Cuarón captures his images with the quiet wonder of a boy admiring the matriarchs in his life. However, it's also clear that this is not just removed, but a reflection into the past, which allows his cinematography to break the bounds of its objective style and evoke true emotions within time.
Runner-up: Rob Hardy — Mission: Impossible – Fallout
3. Lukasz Zal — Cold War
4. Linus Sandgren — First Man
5. Hong Kyung-pyo — Burning
Robbie Ryan — The Favourite
James Laxton — If Beale Street Could Talk
Bing Liu — Minding the Gap
Joshua James Richard — The Rider
Benoît Debie — The Sisters Brothers
Winner: Eddie Hamilton — Mission: Impossible – Fallout
In more ways than one, Mission: Impossible – Fallout is explosive. One of the most underappreciated facets of that, however, is the film's editing. Eddie Hamilton's pacing is never off-note, taking us through a roaring 2.5 hours without anything ever feeling slow or unbalanced. And zooming in to individual sequences, Hamilton's compositions are breathtaking, particularly the "stairs and rooftops" chase through London. That sequence is its own spotless short film, a blend of perfectly timed comedy and powerful bursts of energy. We feel Ethan Hunt's energy and exhaustion distinctly through Hamilton's work, and the entire film is taken to a new level for the franchise because of that.
Runner-up: Bing Liu, Joshua Altman — Minding the Gap
3. Alfonso Cuarón, Adam Gough — Roma
4. Jonathan Amos, Mark Everson — Paddington 2
5. Joe Walker — Widows
Nick Fenton, Chris Gill, Julian Hart — American Animals
Barry Alexander Brown — BlacKkKlansman
Yorgos Mavropsaridis — The Favourite
Hirokazu Kore-eda — Shoplifters
Jay Cassidy — A Star Is Born
Winner: Minding the Gap
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Bing Liu's directorial debut is a true revelation. Minding the Gap centers on three boys — Liu himself, Zack Mulligan and Kiere Johnson — in Rockford, Illinois, who all skateboard and who, we learn, all grew up in abusive households. Liu's film, like so many of 2018's best, wrestles with the essential question: What have our parents done to us? The answer to this question is completely different for each of Liu, Mulligan and Johnson. Yet each of these stories, even Liu's own, is handled with a deft touch of empathy and true intuition. We know these boys, not just their traumas but their charm, their shortcomings, their senses of humor, their aspirations. We cry with them and for them, but we also hope with them.
Minding the Gap is about so many things. Escaping your home. The oppressive force of capitalism. Cycles of abuse. Toxic, limiting masculinity. Friendship. Ultimately, it's about everything that shapes us into who we are and the shared traumas that can underlie our relationships. That's what makes this not just the year's best documentary, but one of its very best films as well.
— Hooman Yazdanian
Runner-up: Free Solo
3. Hale County This Morning, This Evening
4. The Dawn Wall
5. Science Fair
Nossa Chape
Three Identical Strangers
White Tide: The Legend of Culebra
Winner: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
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It's been more than a month since the release of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and we're still feeling the ripples of its arrival. It's hard to say something that's not already been said, but it's the fact that people are still saying things that shows just how significant this film is. Visually dynamic and innovative, but also with a pulsing emotional core, the film feels like a dream, an all-too-perfect culmination of superhero-centered art from its inception in the form of comic books to its dominance of popular cinema today. Spider-Verse is not just a leap forward, but a leap up, all because it was brave enough to take a leap of faith.
Runner-up: Incredibles 2
3. Ralph Breaks the Internet
4. Mirai
5. Early Man
Winner: Shoplifters
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In its first two-thirds, Hirokazu Kore-eda's Shoplifters is a warm yet unflinching movie about the daily rhythms of a family living on the fringes of Tokyo. The Shibata family — Nobuyo (Sakura Ando) and Osamu (Lily Franky), their son Shota (Jyo Kairi), and adult sibling Aki (Mayu Matsuoka) — live in the cramped home of grandmother and matriarch Hatsue (the late Kirin Kiki), living off her small pension, odd jobs, and the eponymous shoplifting.
One day, Nobuyo and Osamu come across a hungry and abused little girl named Yuri (Miyu Sasaki) and decide to take her in, setting in motion a doomed story of kidnap and familial love. Had the movie ambled along in this way, quietly checking in on the day to day of the strange and messy Shibatas, it would have been a triumph of humanistic filmmaking. But in its third act, Shoplifters delivers a shocking series of twists which blow apart the family's fragile, cobbled-together peace, and reveal that Kore-eda has something much deeper to say about choosing love and family when you're up against the world.
Runner-up: Roma
3. Burning
4. Cold War
5. Happy As Lazzaro
Winner: Phil Lord, Rodney Rothman — Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Granted, there've been a lot of Spider-Man stories (comics, movies, and games) this century, and a lot have been wildly successful. But there's something about Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman's take on the classic Spider-Man story that sets it above the rest, and honestly, as one of the best superhero scripts ever.
Maybe it's how it introduces Miles Morales into the cinematic canon, while still giving us a thrilling Peter (B.) Parker story? Maybe it's because it takes a plethora of villains and heroes from the Spider-Verse, and gives each character their own rational motivations for their actions, with varying degrees of forgivability? Maybe it's just because we didn't laugh harder or cry more during a studio film from 2018 than we did while watching Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse? Or most likely, it's because it did all of these things, and crafted an inclusive story that anyone of any race, gender, age, or nationality can relate to. Because in the end, the power of superhero stories has always been that superheroes don't have to be that super at all; they just have to believe in themselves and in the good of the people around them. Anyone can wear the mask.
3. Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan — Wildlife
4. Lee Chang-dong, Oh Jung-mi — Burning
5. Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty — Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Ryan Coogler, Joe Robert Cole — Black Panther
Peter Chiarelli, Adele Lim — Crazy Rich Asians
Barry Jenkins — If Beale Street Could Talk
Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini — Leave No Trace
Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain — The Sisters Brothers
Winner: Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara — The Favourite
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The incredible passive aggressiveness, snark, and sass of Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara's script for The Favourite is, quite frankly, jaw-dropping. From the overarching manipulative machinations of Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz) and Abigail (Emma Stone), to the invigoratingly sexy scenes, all the way down to the single lines of dialogue — the most gobsmackingly awesome being Queen Anne's "I like it when she puts her tongue inside me" — the script is an absolute wonder.
But that's not all that Davis and McNamara accomplish. The story is also a seering look at the sacrifices made in a quest for power, as well as the corruption that such a quest can bring upon one's soul. And, in perhaps the film's most powerful scene when Lady Sarah tries to connect with Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) again, The Favourite reveals itself as a story of what love truly means.
Runner-up: Hirokazu Kore-eda — Shoplifters
4. Alfonso Cuarón — Roma
5. Tamara Jenkins — Private Life
Paweł Pawlikowski, Janusz Glowacki — Cold War
Paul Schrader — First Reformed
Mark Perez — Game Night
Alice Rohrwacher — Happy As Lazzaro
Ari Aster — Hereditary
Winner: Steven Yeun — Burning
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Burning is a reserved, chilling psychosexual thriller from one of the world's premier directors, Lee Chang-dong. The film follows a love triangle between Lee Jong-su (Yoo Ah-in), Hae-mi (Jeon Jong-seo), and Ben (Steven Yeun). Through Chang-dong's lens, we see the story from Jong-su's increasingly anxious, jealous, and fractured view. But because the film rests with Jong-su, this allows Yeun's Ben to become the film's enigma; it's through his character and Yeun's portrayal that the film morphs into a stunning, shocking mystery. On first viewing, when the three are with each other, Yeun's almost displeasing yawns and seemingly mocking laughter shake Jong-su, and the audience, to the core. There's clearly something underneath this person — a rich kid so privileged in society, that maybe, just maybe, he has turned to murder to feel something in the world. Yet, on repeat viewings (which this film begs for), it could be implied that Ben isn't all that bad. While having an aura of superiority around him, Ben appears rather inviting. Maybe, after all, it is Jong-su trying to force Ben into the story he wants for himself.
Thanks, in large part, to Lee Chang-dong and Oh Jung-mi's masterful script and Steven Yeun's even more masterful performance, we're never granted answers, though. Yeun perfectly relies on subtlety, born charisma, and his dashing good looks to craft Ben into an unknowable key to understanding what transpires. Yet, the answers go up in flames, and we're all left with the haunting reality that we may never truly know who Ben is.
3. Brian Tyree Henry — If Beale Street Could Talk
4. Alex Wolff — Hereditary
5. Daniel Kaluuya — Widows
Timothée Chalamet — Beautiful Boy
Richard E. Grant — Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Nicholas Hoult — The Favourite
Jesse Plemons — Game Night
Jake Gyllenhaal — Wildlife
Winner: Rachel Weisz — The Favourite
In The Favourite — a film full of overt, loud, and clear (even if passive aggressive) expression — Rachel Weisz is a complex force. Her Lady Sarah is simultaneously manipulative, loving, confident, and jealous. Under a rarely changing steely glare, Weisz breathes with power, while also communicating her character's slow loss of it. And along with that comes a loss of friendship and a loss of love, and Weisz evokes a painfully palpable desperation, culminating in her heart-wrenching monologue of what it means to love someone. While there's an engaging sadness and depression to Olivia Colman's Queen Anne, it's Weisz's brilliant performance as Lady Sarah that lays a soul at the foundation of the film.
Runner-up: Regina King — If Beale Street Could Talk
3. Emma Stone — The Favourite
4. Elizabeth Debicki — Widows
5. Marina de Tavira — Roma
Michelle Yeoh — Crazy Rich Asians
Rachel McAdams — Game Night
Margot Robbie — Mary Queen of Scots
Kayli Carter — Private Life
Kirin Kiki — Shoplifters
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A Star Is Born opens with Bradley Cooper on stage as Jackson Maine, strumming the hell out of his guitar and belting out "Black Eyes." Cooper not only answers any questions about his musical bonafides, but does it with fervor, commanding that stage and the audience — both the one in the film and the one watching it — like a real life rock star. He commands us not just to watch, but to believe. We need to believe he'd be successful, famous enough to attract big festival crowds, but also to walk into a drag bar and be treated like a star right away. Later, we need to believe he would both instantly fall in love with Ally (Lady Gaga) and have Ally fall in love with him. We need to believe this is a man in pain, and that this pain lingers even and especially when he's head-over-heels in love with Ally, as he is until the end. We need to believe, and feel, and regret, the self-medication by alcohol Maine resorts to; haunted by the traumas of his youth and embroiled in the tumultuous rollercoasters of love and fame, Maine's only restraint is more dangerous than the rollercoasters themselves. He gets drunk, he yells, he regrets. He goes to rehab. We need to believe it's all real. We need to believe in Cooper as Maine does in Ally. And boy, is Cooper worth believing. He falls into the role of Jackson Maine. The star we know is hidden behind a beard, scraggly hair and sunworn skin. Of Cooper, only his winning eyes remain, and even they do their fair share of sad talking.
When an actor as famous as Bradley Cooper does a role as big and different as this one, it can be distracting. It'd be easy to watch A Star Is Born and just yell, "That is Bradley Cooper, the motherfucker from The Hangover! And he is singing!" But this doesn't happen because we believe Cooper. The now seven-time Oscar nominee gives the performance of his life and of the year. We were right to believe.
Runner-up: Tom Cruise — Mission: Impossible – Fallout
3. Ethan Hawke — First Reformed
4. Ryan Gosling — First Man
5. Lily Franky — Shoplifters
Yoo Ah-in — Burning
Tomasz Kot — Cold War
Stephan James — If Beale Street Could Talk
John Cho — Searching
Christian Bale — Vice
Winner: Sakura Ando — Shoplifters
Amidst an amazing cast, Sakura Ando is transfixing in Shoplifters. A sense of enigmatic cool immediately emanating from her performance, Ando allows us in slowly. From her character's quiet will to endure and survive, to her deep and raw connection to Yuri (Miyu Sasaki) through shared trauma, to her growing sense of motherhood and what it means to take care of someone, Ando's turn unveils layer upon layer with stunning precision and timing, while maintaining an emotional truth to every aspect. She's the powerful, magnetic center to the film because she plays that part to the film's family, anchoring them in both fantasy and reality. And in her two key moments in the third act, when talking about motherhood and when telling Shota (Jyo Kairi) key information, Ando is harrowing in both her quiet pain and her strained certainty. Her performance is one of the most brilliantly understated of the year.
Runner-up: Olivia Colman — The Favourite
3. Toni Collette — Hereditary
4. Carey Mulligan — Wildlife
5. Yalitza Aparicio — Roma
Joanna Kulig — Cold War
Thomasin McKenzie — Leave No Trace
Kathryn Hahn — Private Life
Regina Hall — Support the Girls
Glenn Close — The Wife
Winner: The cast of The Favourite
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The cast of The Favourite may not be as expansive as other ensembles. But the set of performances is undoubtedly unmatched. Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, and Olivia Colman all deliver deliciously devilish and ravishingly ravenous turns. And they're accompanied by a magnificent Nicholas Hoult, and a solidly serviceable Joe Alwyn and James Smith.
The range of work from these actors would be enough to put it into contention, but what locks it in as the best ensemble of 2018 is the vibrant and explosive chemistry between every single performer. Yorgos Lanthimos movies are idiosyncratic, so chemistry is key, and here, the rapport is simply sublime.
Runner-up: The cast of Shoplifters
3. The cast of Black Panther
4. The cast of Widows
The cast of Bad Times at the El Royale
The cast of Crazy Rich Asians
The cast of If Beale Street Could Talk
The cast of Private Life
The cast of The Sisters Brothers
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Like practically every other critics group (and we're predicting the directors guild, too), we found Alfonso Cuarón's deeply personal autobiographical memory play to be the best piece of directing of 2018. Using crisp black-and-white digital 65mm cinematography, mostly non-professional cast members, and stunning on-set recreations of 1970s Mexico City, Cuarón paints a humanistic, neo-realistic love letter to both the city and the women who raised him.
Cuarón's approach to the material is organic in every facet. Composed of mostly long takes, Cuarón allows the performers, and thus the audience, to live in his world. There's no prioritization of banal, seemingly simple moments (such as kids being cleansed with vinegar after getting sunburnt) over more dramatic moments (when a fire ravages an estate where the central family and friends are spending Christmas). Furthermore, the film perfectly balances moments of brevity — like a cheeky visual reference of the family going to the movies to see Marooned, which Cuarón may or may not have based his own Oscar-winning Gravity off of — with complete tragedy — such as when Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio) loses a part of herself, in a devastating scene that won't be spoiled here.
Yet, Cuarón is also giving a voice and vision to people rarely seen on the big screen: domestic workers. Starring an indigenous woman (the groundbreaking, now Oscar-nominated Yalitza Aparicio), Roma explores privilege, class, and race within Mexican society, but in a way that allows audiences to see the hard, caring work that these people do for the families they serve and, equally, how much they shape the people they help. Films have always been described as empathy machines, and it doesn't get much more empathetic than what Cuarón's direction achieves with his masterpiece Roma.
Runner-up: Paul King — Paddington 2
4. Lee Chang-dong — Burning
5. Hirokazu Kore-eda — Shoplifters
Ryan Coogler — Black Panther
Yorgos Lanthimos — The Favourite
Christopher McQuarrie — Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Tamara Jenkins — Private Life
Winner: Paddington 2
Sweet but never saccharine, Paddington 2 gives the perfect answer to the cynicism of the day, and does so without standing on a soap box, megaphone in hand, declaring itself apolitical. In fact, it does the opposite, embodying soul and optimism about humanity without betraying its messaging as a perfectly-toned rebuke of anti-immigrant, anti-refugee sentiment. Such is the case with 2018's best film (that's right, US release dates) and the flagbearer of nicecore, Paddington 2.
The story is simple: Paddington (Ben Whishaw), a bear from darkest Peru who lives with his adopted family, the Browns, in London, wants to buy his Aunt Lucy (Imelda Staunton) a popup book for her birthday. He wants to share the magic he sees in it with her. The end of that story is truly tear-jerking, and the execution of the journey to get there is transcendent. Packed with action, humor, and joy, the film takes aesthetic swings and knocks them out of the park. It is directed phenomenally by Paul King and perfectly acted, led by a layered, career-best performance from Hugh Grant.
Filled to the brim with equal helpings of ingenuity, marmalade, and heart, Paddington 2 sees the best in us and manages to be the best film of 2018 along the way.
Runner-up: The Favourite
3. Shoplifters
4. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
5. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
7. Minding the Gap
8. Roma
9. Wildlife
10. Private Life
Feature graphic by Kyle Kizu
Feature images courtesy of Paramount Pictures/Twentieth Century Fox/Warner Bros./Netflix/Sony Pictures
March Madness of Movies — The Champions
Posted on April 5, 2018 by MovieMinis Staff	Leave a comment
These matchups were vote on by the MovieMinis Staff.
After a month of intense, nail-biting competition, we finally have the winners in our four brackets for the March Madness of Movies.
Best Big Budget Directing of the 21st Century
Peter Jackson won the Best Director Oscar for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. That film has cemented itself in cinematic history as one of the best epics, one of the best fantasy films.
But, more recently, we got another cinematic landmark, this time in the action genre (while also in the fantasy realm). Mad Max: Fury Road is essentially a two hour action scene. That it works, that it feels like a full movie with thematic heft — let alone the fact that the action is masterful — is a testament to how truly astonishing George Miller's directing job was.
Winner: George Miller — Mad Max: Fury Road
Best Superhero Villains of the 21st Century
Black Panther's Erik Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan) will be long remembered. What he means as a character, as a villain, within a film that, itself, means so much, transcends cinema.
But there's just something different, however, about The Dark Knight's The Joker (Heath Ledger). The master of mad dogs, The Joker is a villain of chaos, a terrorist who causes you to cower and to flee before you really have reason to. His visage is iconocraphic, a remnant of a harrowing time of fear in our a real world.
Winner: The Joker — The Dark Knight
Best A24 Films
This was the closest matchup in the entire competition. We needed a tiebreaking vote between Moonlight and Lady Bird, and the vote took up an entire day with it coming down to the final one.
At the end of the day, Moonlight came out on top. As the Best Picture winner that defied everyone, it sits as our champion in this bracket triumphantly.
Winner: Moonlight
Best Cinematography Since 2010
Sorry Roger Deakins. You got your Oscar for Blade Runner 2049, but we couldn't give you the win here.
Hoyte van Hoytema won quite easily for Her, a sci-fi love story that is far more tender, vulnerable and powerful precisely because of how van Hoytema's photography evokes a lonely, beautiful world.
Winner: Hoyte van Hoytema — Her
Featured image via Warner Bros.
March Madness of Movies — The Final Matchups
The last results offered us the winners of each subcategory — Ryan Coogler took best superhero directing for Black Panther, Peter Jackson took best franchise directing for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, George Miller took best original/prestige/non-franchise studio directing for Mad Max: Fury Road and Pete Docter and Bob Peterson took best animated directing for Up.
Those four finalists offered us fascinating matchups as the subcategories were pitted against each other for the first time. Coogler took on Jackson and Miller took on Docter and Peterson. While Coogler was able to take down the goliath that was Christopher Nolan for The Dark Knight, he couldn't best the Oscar winner Peter Jackson, whose achievement with The Lord of the Rings final film continues to hold strong.
And in the bizarre matchup of Miller vs. Docter/Peterson, animation just couldn't quite compete, as Up was pummeled by Fury Road.
Now for the final matchup — two absolute epics, handled masterfully by their directors. While only one won the Oscar, there are plenty of arguments out there that the other should've as well.
This final matchup is not much of a surprise. With the way seeding and layout ended up, the paths were clearly laid out for the two contenders. That's no disrespect to any of the other contenders. Both Magnetos of the two X-Men trilogies were always going to have strong showings. Bane, from The Dark Knight Rises, surprised many with both seeding and performance.
But it was inevitably going to come down to Erik Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan) from Black Panther and The Joker (Heath Ledger) from The Dark Knight — Marvel's best villain and DC's best villain. The strengths of the two are a bit different. While Jordan's performance isn't necessarily outstanding — remember, this bracket is judged on performance, writing and directing of the character — the writing and directing, in the backstory and themes that Killmonger's journey evokes, are nearly unparalleled. With The Joker, Ledger's performance is, quite obviously, the standout. The dialogue is brilliant, and the choice of a lack of backstory and the ways in which Christopher Nolan visual frames The Joker are superb. But Ledger's performance is one of the best, of any character of all time.
Similarly to the bracket above, the paths were clear for our two finalists. They simply had to traverse those paths. What the matchups prior to this final were meant to represent was the ridiculously briliant resume of A24 and how, in almost any matchup in any round, it was incredibly hard to decide between films. Had the other two finalists, 20th Century Women and Ex Machina, been pitted against one another, it would've been another extremely tight matchup.
But here we are, with the expected Moonlight vs. Lady Bird, the two landmark A24 films that have found a place in cinema's history so quickly. And as was the case with this bracket, these two will be nearly impossible to choose between.
While big budget directing was rather up in the air, this bracket might've been even more so. We do have our two top seeds, but they both had to battle hard to get to this point and could've easily been knocked out for other contenders that would've made for a fascinating finale.
Look at the two of the final four that didn't make it — Hoyte van Hoytema for Dunkirk, who lost a tie-breaking vote, and Mihai Malaimare Jr. for The Master, who lost by one vote. These are two cinematographers who, with this film, offered stunning iconography, specifically in 70mm film.
But we have Hoyte van Hoytema for Her and Roger Deakins for Blade Runner 2049, and it's an equally as stunning matchup, but with digital lensing. Arguably, this matchup feels a bit more right than any other would have. In the finale, we have Roger Deakins, one of the best cinematographers of all time, and Hoyte van Hoytema, a DP who is quickly rising to that status.
Stay tuned for the championship results, which will be posted this week on Friday, April 6!
Featured image via A24/Warner Bros.
March Madness of Movies: Best Big Budget Directing of the 21st Century — Round 3
Posted on April 1, 2018 by Kyle Kizu	Leave a comment
This final four is a bit different than the rest of the brackets. While "Best Superhero Villains" did have subcategories, the entries from each were mixed from the beginning. With "Best Big Budget Directing," the subcategories were laid out as the four sections of the brackets, so these final four are the winners of their specific subcategories.
In the superhero directing subcategory, Ryan Coogler came out on top for his direction of Black Panther, upsetting Christopher Nolan's work on The Dark Knight, which many thought deserved a Best Director nomination ten years ago. While there was some heated disagreement among the staff, and while the vote was very tight, it's difficult to say that Coogler isn't deserving. He bested both of the Russo brothers outings in the MCU before taking on and taking down Nolan. Ryan Coogler is our official winner of the best superhero directing subcategory.
In the franchise directing subcategory, #1 seed Peter Jackson for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King easily beat #2 seed Matt Reeves for War for the Planet of the Apes. As the only person in this bracket to have won the Best Director Oscar — four other contenders (in another subcategory) were nominated — this was expected. Peter Jackson is our official winner of the best franchise directing subcategory.
In the original/prestige/non-franchise studio directing subcategory, George Miller beat Christopher Nolan (Inception) for a second time, after beating Nolan's Dunkirk direction last round, to earn a spot in the final four. That leaves Nolan, the director with the most entries in this bracket, entirely out of the top four. But it is quite hard to argue against Miller's efforts for Mad Max: Fury Road, one of the best action films of all time. And after #1 seed David Fincher was knocked out in the first round, Miller was the highest seed left. George Miller is our official winner of the best original/prestige/non-franchise studio directing subcategory. (We know that Mad Max is a franchise, but Fury Road is a slightly separated story, the only film of the series released in the 21st century and more tonally consistent with the entries of the subcategory.)
In the animated directing subcategory, Up stepped forward as the clear favorite. After Pixar dominated the entries with six, it was clear that it was going to come down to a Pixar film. The only question was which one. And after Up beat WALL-E and Toy Story 3 didn't make it to the Elite Eight, it all seemed wrapped up. Pete Docter and Bob Peterson are our official winners of the best animated directing subcategory.
Now for the fun part, the mixing of the subcategories. Ryan Coogler will have some terribly tough competition in Peter Jackson. And how fun of a matchup is Mad Max: Fury Road vs. Up? We bet you never put those two in the same sentence.
Stay tuned for the round 4 results, which will be posted next week on Friday, April 6!
Featured image via Marvel/New Line Cinema/Pixar/Warner Bros.
March Madness of Movies: Best Superhero Villains of the 21st Century — Round 3
Posted on March 31, 2018 by MovieMinis Staff	Leave a comment
Two of the four finalists were near guarantees to make it from the very beginning — Heath Ledger's The Joker from The Dark Knight and Ian McKellen's Magneto from the first X-Men trilogy. Ledger had some admiral contenders in Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin from Spider-Man and Michael Fassbender's version of Magneto from the second X-Men trilogy. But truly, no one stood a chance. McKellen was less of a sure thing. Whether he had come up against Aaron Eckhart's Harvey Dent/Two Face from The Dark Knight or, his eventual competitor, Jason Lee's Syndrome from The Incredibles, there was an off chance that personal preference might've taken him down.
But the two made it through, and will now take on each other. The Joker is, surely, the stronger contender, but McKellen's Magneto is the strongest competition that he's come up against.
On the other side of the bracket, the battle between Tom Hiddleston's Loki and Michael B. Jordan's Erik Killmonger was expected — Loki being the old favorite and Killmonger being the new favorite. While there was a shot for Loki to hold onto that love that he earned years ago and make it through, the votes tipped heavily to Black Panther's Killmonger, an absolutely worthy final four entry.
The villain he'll face, Tom Hardy's Bane from The Dark Knight Rises, started of this bracket by surprisingly earning a #1 seed. There was always an opportunity for him to fall, whether that be to the recently beloved Vulture from Spider-Man: Homecoming or the previous brilliant webslinger antagonist, Doc Ock, from Spider-Man 2. But Bane advanced confidently. Yet, he'll have a massive mountain to climb in the face of Killmonger.
At this point, we've lost representation from the "other" group of villains, while retaining entries from the MCU, DC and the X-Men films. And if the favorites make it through to the finals, it'll be the classic Marvel vs. DC battle we've all come to know quite well.
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While five The Dark Knight trilogy villains worked their way into round 2, only 2 now remain in #1 seeds The Joker (Heath Ledger) and Bane (Tom Hardy) from The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises, respectively. #4 seed Scarecrow from the entire trilogy and #3 seed Ra's al Ghul from Batman Begins were eliminated at the hands of MCU heavyweights #1 seed Erik Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan) from Black Panther and #2 seed Loki (Tom Hiddleston) from The Avengers (and other MCU films). Those two heavyweights will now face each other in what is, essentially, the decider of the best MCU villain.
The previously mentioned #1 seed Bane will compete against the #2 seed Doc Ock (Alfred Molina) from Spider-Man 2 — both physical beasts with fascinating stories behind them. #1 seed The Joker will go head-to-head with #2 seed Magneto (the Michael Fassbender version) from the new X-Men trilogy. While the absence of a backstory makes The Joker so frightening and effective, it's the tragic, heartbreaking backstory of the younger version of Magneto that elicits so much empathy for him, despite his cruel actions.
The final matchup will be #1 seed Magneto (the Ian McKellen version) from the original X-Men trilogy vs. #3 seed Buddy Pine/Syndrome (voiced by the hilarious Jason Lee) from The Incredibles. While Magneto still has the backstory, his older version is plenty of fun to watch, as is Syndrome. Both hit on the larger-than-life characters while never feeling cheap.
The spread of contenders remaining feels just about right. This bracket is made up of villains from the MCU, DC films, X-Men films and any other superhero villains, and there is prominent representation of each of those subcategories in the elite eight. There is even potential for there to still be representation of each in the next round.
Stay tuned for the round 3 results, which will be posted next week on Friday, March 30!
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There were very few surprises this round, and the competition is starting to shape up and become really difficult to work through.
In the superhero directing subcategory, the best of Marvel and the best of DC have now come to face each other, with #1 seed Christopher Nolan for The Dark Knight taking on #2 seed Ryan Coogler for Black Panther. Will the next votes lean toward the more recent cultural phenomenon or will they look back on the near all-time classic crime epic from a decade ago?
In the franchise directing subcategory, it's the battle of the acronyms: #1 seed Peter Jackson for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King vs. #2 seed Matt Reeves for War for the Planet of the Apes. Both are epics of the highest order.
In the prestige/original/non-franchise studio directing subcategory, #2 seed George Miller for Mad Max: Fury Road comes up against Christopher Nolan yet again. Miller just beat #6 seed Nolan for Dunkirk and will now face #4 seed Nolan for Inception. Can he triumph yet again against this generation's most popular director?
Finally, in the animated directing subcategory, two Pixar giants will go toe-to-toe: #1 seeds Pete Docter and Bob Peterson for Up vs. #3 seed Brad Bird for The Incredibles. These directors already made it by some huge Pixar contenders, so this matchup will be even tougher to consider.
The winners of these battles will then move on to a rather interesting part of this bracket, the part where subcategories end and contenders blend. Winners of subcategories will be crowned only to face the other winners in the final four. But who will those winners end up being?
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There were a few upsets in "Best Superhero Villains of the 21st Century," but they do seem rather easily explainable. #5 seed Adrian Toomes/Vulture from Spider-Man: Homecoming topped #4 seed Mr. Glass from Unbreakable; the middle matchup is always up in the air and the former comes from such a massive property. Vulture could put up a fight against #1 seed Bane from The Dark Knight Rises, one of the weaker high seeds. In addition, #6 seed Professor Robert Callaghan from Big Hero 6 took down #3 seed Helmut Zemo from Captain America: Civil War. Zemo rose to a #3 seed due to very strong individual rankings. Plus, he's not in the film that much, as the main conflict revolves around Iron Man and Captain America. It's also going to be tough for Callaghan to get much further, as he'll come up against #2 seed Doc Ock from Spider-Man 2.
Beyond that, everything went as planned. Two of the MCU's best villains, in #1 seed Erik Killmonger from Black Panther and #2 seed Loki from multiple MCU films, will take on two The Dark Knight trilogy villains, in #4 seed Dr. Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow and #3 seed Ra's al Ghul.
On the other side of the bracket, #1 seed The Joker from The Dark Knight will battle another smiling evildoer in #4 seed Green Goblin from Spider-Man. Both Ian McKellen and Michael Fassbender's Magnetos, #1 and #2 seeds respectively, advanced and will take on MCU villains in #3 seed The Winter Soldier from Captain America: The Winter Soldier and #4 seed Ulysses Klaue from both Avengers: Age of Ultron and Black Panther. Finally, the fifth villain from The Dark Knight trilogy, #2 seed Harvey Dent/Two-Face, whose specifically from The Dark Knight, will face the animated contender, #3 seed Syndrome from The Incredibles.
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For the most part, "Best Big Budget Directing of the 21st Century" went smoothly. 12 of the 16 matchups went to the higher seed.
In the superhero directing subcategory, two of the MCU's arguably most controlled visions of both character and spectacle, in the Russo brothers' Captain America: Civil War and Ryan Coogler's Black Panther, remain and are set to face off next. Then, the gritty, genre-transcending films The Dark Knight, directed by Christopher Nolan, and Logan, directed by James Mangold, will also go head to head.
In the franchise directing subcategory, #4 seed Alfonso Cuarón for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban fell in a very close race to #5 seed Denis Villeneuve for Blade Runner 2049. Villeneuve will face #1 titan Peter Jackson for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Then, #3 seed Matt Reeves for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes fell to #6 seed Sam Mendes for Skyfall — likely due to Reeves holding a higher seed with War for the Planet of the Apes and advancing, taking on Mendes next.
In the animated directing subcategory, higher seeds swept the matchups and we now only have Pixar films left. The matchups will be #1 seeds Pete Docter and Bob Peterson for Up competing with #4 seed Andrew Stanton for WALL-E, and #2 seed Brad Bird for The Incredibles matching up against #3 seed Toy Story 3.
The prestige/original/non-franchise studio is where things were most shaken up. Not only did Martin Scorsese (The Wolf of Wall Street, #7 seed) fall to the higher seeded George Miller (Mad Max: Fury Road, #2 seed), but he also fell to the lower seeded Christopher Nolan in the matchup between the directing of The Aviator and that of Dunkirk. Miller and Nolan will go head to head in one of the toughest matchups of the bracket. Nolan also advanced past #5 seed Peter Jackson for King Kong with his #4 seed directing of Inception. Nolan's opponent comes from easily the biggest surprise of the topic and what we are always excited to see in bracket — a #1 seed vs. #8 seed upset. It came down to a tie-breaking vote, but Alfonso Cuarón, knocked out across the bracket, stayed alive with his Children of Men directing, while David Fincher, for Zodiac, has been eliminated.
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Key West is the southernmost point in the Continental United States and has tropical climate, tantalizing blue water, and laid-back island ambiance. Capture Key West and let Key West capture you-with beautiful beaches, delicious dining, fantastic fishing. Breath-taking dives are offered just miles off shore, or immerse yourself in the attractions and historical sites. A visit to Key West will grab the interest of both the young and old, the energetic and laid-back, the water lovers and land loungers. Ride the Conch Train's wheels or walk the streets to see all Key West has to offer. Experience Ripley's Believe It or Not, pages of history in the Key West Lighthouse, and the way life was for famous former Key West residents Ernest Hemmingway and John James Audubon in their historical island homes. Old Town is the location of many popular Key West sites and attractions. Duval Street is in the heart of Old Town and home of some favorite Key West drinking establishments like Sloppy Joes, Hog's Breath Saloon and Jimmy Buffetts Margaritiville Cafe.
The island of Cozumel lies
just twelve miles off the Yucatan Coast, a 45 minute ferry ride from the famed
Riviera Maya. Dive into the crystal blue waters of Cozumel and discover why
Jacques Cousteau called it the "best diving area in the world." Palancar Reef,
the second largest in the world, provides an incredible diversity of species,
stunning sites and visibility of at least 150 feet. Whether you're a first time
snorkeler or an experienced diver, the intricate coral reefs and teems of painted
fish will amaze you!
Rates are cruise only, per person, based on double occupancy. Taxes, Fees and Port Expenses additional for all guests (unless otherwise stated). Rates are subject to availability and may change without notice. Restrictions may apply.
5-night Cruise
Optional Roundtrip airfare from your city
Prices are per person, based on double occupancy. Airfare, Taxes, Fees and Port Expenses are additional for all guests. Pricing for 3rd and 4th guests are available upon request and are subject to stateroom category availability. Prices change frequently


Everyone loves a good poddy. Thanks to Serial, the podcast boom is in full swing. But, there seems to be a lot of podcasts floating around that are, well, a bit rubbish. As a great philosopher meme once said, "Starting a podcast is this generations starting a band". There are lots of them but most of them have poor sound quality and little future #sorrynotsorry. To cut through the noise (pun intended) we curated a list of poddy's that will suit whatever mood you're in. So, how are you feeling?
Learning about the story behind a song can make you appreciate it more. That's what Song Exploder aims to do; get musicians to take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made. Artists include Jon Hopkins, Lorde, Alt-J, Solange, and many more. Over the course of 20 minutes, host Hrishikesh Hirway joins the artist to explore their thought process as they created their track. It's insightful, interesting, and leaves you with a whole new understanding of how your fav songs get made.
Is your makeup DID? Are you feeling FIERCE? Then honey, listen to Natch Beaut. Host Jackie J speaks 100 miles an hour about all things skincare and makeup. Expert guests drop makeup tips, tricks, and must-have products to help you level-up your beauty game. Jackie's focus is always on getting bang for your buck so don't expect mention of La Mer. It's all about being a natural beauty, preferably cruelty-free, with any type of budget.
One of the most beautiful podcats out there is Modern Love – the New York Times podcast version of their weekly essays that explore the joys and tribulations of love. We're not going to lie, we've fully cried while doing the washing up to this podcast. Each episode is wildly different but it all focuses on one thing; love. So, whether you're looking to have a good weep or someone to cheer you up with a joyful tale of romance, this podcast is for you.
Politics is dry. Luckily, Homosensual, Bryan Safi, and Feminasty, Erin Gibson, are making light of it all with their podcast, Throwing Shade. Over the course of an hour, listen to the duo discuss LGBTQ and female issues with humor, animation, and a few skits thrown in for good measure. Don't be fooled, this it's just a comedy podcast – these two know what they are talking about and are deeply passionate about equality. It's like having a political chat with two mates over mimosas – funny, informative, and by the end of it, you feel like you've put the world to rights.
Sometimes you want to listen to two pals chat about nothing. If it's audio comfort food you're looking for then listen to Better Friendship Through Podcasting. Buzzfeed alumni Adam Ellis and friend Kristin Rossi who work together stay after hours and talk about stuff over a handful of cocktails. The convos are silly and the duo's friendship is even sillier. Buckle up for an hour and a half on a true whirlwind podcast.