7th Annual DeFacto Film Awards
Welcome to the 7th annual DeFacto Film Awards! In honor of the Oscars airing tonight, please enjoy our personal picks, as voted on by our writers. This year our selections [...]
Top 10 Films of 2024 – Editors’ Choice
Despite many who have claimed as such, 2024 was a stellar year for cinema. Coming off contentious strike delays that saw a slow start to the year, 2024 gave audiences [...]
6th Annual Defacto Film Awards
As we always do in honor of the Oscars, we are pleased to announce the 6th Annual Defacto Film Awards. This year, we did things even more democratically as opposed [...]
Oscar Predictions 2024
After months of precursor award shows, the Oscars are finally going to be awarded this coming Sunday, March 10. Jimmy Kimmel has the hosting duties for a second year in [...]
Top 10 Films of 2023 – Editors’ Choice
2023 has been an interesting year for film. Several of the old masters (Scorsese, Mann, Miyazaki, Schrader, Yimou) released new films, most to great acclaim. There were also quite a [...]
The 96th Annual Oscar Nominations
The 96th Annual Oscars will air live from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, CA on Sunday, March 10th on ABC. BEST PICTURE NOMINEES AMERICAN FICTION Ben LeClair, Nikos Karamigios, Cord [...]
Fall Movie Preview 2023
by Robert Joseph Butler and Bart Woinski Summer 2023 was quite an unusual summer movie season. As SAG joined the WGA for the strike, we saw so many films underperform [...]
The Best Films of 2023 so far…
With half of the year already gone, it's now becoming standard for many publications and film buffs to share their choices midway through the year. It opens the gates for [...]
5th Annual Defacto Film Awards
To celebrate Oscar weekend, we are pleased to announce the 5thAnnual Defacto Film Awards. This year, we did things a lot more democratically as opposed to doing separate ballots in [...]
The Best Films of 2022-Editors’ Picks
Coming off the two most turbulent years in our recent history, 2022 proved that one of the many ways to unite the world is, as corny as it sounds, through [...]