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Joker Wins Best Picture, Best Actor in Phoenix Film Critics Society 2019 Awards

“Joker,” the Todd Phillips-directed take on the supervillain story, took Best Picture honors, and Joaquin Phoenix won Best Actor for his turn in the title role, in the Phoenix Film Critic’s Society’s 2019 awards. Best Director went to Sam Mendes for the WWI drama “1917,” which also captured awards for Best Original Score, Best Cinematography, […]
 

“Green Book” Wins Best Picture, 3 other Phoenix Film Critics Society 2018 Awards

 
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Why Oscar’s Best Popular Film is so Unpopular

 
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Monthly Movie Spotlight: Destination Moon

Made nearly two decades before the title destination was reached in real life, Destination Moon (1950) is a landmark in sci-fi cinema, a fairly serious-minded attempt, co-scripted by Robert A. Heinlein, to depict a scientifically plausible lunar expedition. It’s a little too serious-minded, really. The director was the memorable character actor Irving Pichel, and his […]
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Nicholas Spake

At the age of fifteen, I launched NickPicksFlicks.com, a website dedicated to the art of film. Since then, I have worked as a published film critic for Arizona State Press, Ahwatukee Foothills News, Film Festival Today, Arizona Filmmaker Magazine, East Valley Tribune, and Story Monsters Ink. Read More about “Nicholas Spake”…

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The Shape of Water Wins Best Picture, 3 other Phoenix Film Critics Society 2017 Awards
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