2nd Annual Defacto Film Awards
To celebrate the Oscars, we are pleased to announce the Best of 2019 nominees and winners in fourteen categories. We selected the top five picks in the following categories: Best [...]
Road to the Oscars 2020: Predictions
"1917" will walk away the nights biggest winner. Brad Pitt will win his first Oscar. Joaquin Phoenix will also win his first Oscar. "The Irishman" will walk way with no [...]
Sam Mendes Retrospective-Best Mendes Films, Ranked
Studio director Sam Mendes has certainly left his footprint in the cinematic world. Winning the Oscar for both best picture and best director at the 2000 Academy Awards right out [...]
Gretel & Hansel
by Ben Rothrock As we continue to grow more sensitive of the world around us and the horrors of the adult world, we continue to censor and change the stories [...]
The Turning
In a remote, country-side mansion in the 1990s, young school teacher Kate (Mackenzie Davis) has just accepted to be the nanny and tutor to a young girl named Flora (Brooklynn [...]
The Gentlemen
“The Gentlemen” is the most recent addition to the canon of British gangster/caper films that made Guy Ritchie a household name, beginning way back in 1999 with “Lock, Stock and [...]
Les Misérables (2019)
The Oscar nominated French film "Les Misérables" may share the same title of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel, but it's far from an adaptation or retelling. Rather, it's a harrowing reworking [...]
Dolittle
Picture this in your mind: an energetic, rowdy kid is running throughout the house without a care in the world. Because he’s not really paying attention to what [...]
The Best Films of 2019-Editors’ Choice
2019 Year in Cinema The 2010s will always hold a special place in my heart as the decade when I developed my love of the movies and my passion for [...]
The 100 Best Films of the 2010s
Due to living in a time when online discussion of cinema tends to focus exclusively on the “film of the week”, just so individuals can feel as if they are [...]