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 [...]
The Best Films of 2022…So Far
It's 2022 and regular moviegoing feels normalized again, only back from a long, 2-year pandemic, but so are many superlative blockbusters that are pulling in audiences, with such box-office spectacles [...]
The Best Films of 2019 – Robert Butler
2019 Year in Cinema How could anyone think cinema is dead when so many films this year were exceptional? Quite a few were masterpieces--some were overpraised, a handful were formally [...]