BEST OF THE DECADE – 2010’S: CORY, PART 11: #3 –Logan

3) Logan – 2017

‘Logan‘ is a wistfully sobering, white-knuckle finalization to Hugh Jackman’s 17-year role as the feral soldier-of-fortune James Howlett which will undoubtedly become his signature role. In a breaking-the- 4th-wall approach with Stan Lee’s comic-book catalog, Wolverine critiques the printed word of his X-Men escapades and James Mangold presents a less deified, more graphic version of those adamantium yarns.

If the wanton, overrated ‘Deadpool’ can be genuflected for anything, it debouched the flood gates for Fox studios to be daringly audacious with this film’s R-rating. For instance, the opening car jacking scene is Wolverine (Jackman) in unleashed, splattery berserker mode with slashings to craniums, lower jawlines, forearms and legs galore. It’s a veritable abbatoir with Wolverine’s claws as the meat grinder. Certainly, not the bloodless gashes from the Bryan Singer era.

Best of the Decade – 2010’s: Tristan, Part 4: #10 – Logan

Here is when we get to the true purpose of this series, the top ten films of the 2010s. Over the course of the last ten years, we’ve had some pretty remarkable cinematic experiences. This is the first of those, and each of the nine subsequent weeks will lead up to the best of the 2010s. On Thursdays, we’ll see Cory’s top ten. Let’s take a look at my number ten film:

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10) Logan – 2017

Directed by James Mangold
Starring Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen, Richard E. Grant & Boyd Holbrook

In this modern era of superhero blockbuster films, it’s become increasingly difficult to adapt the original work as clearly as one might expect. From the first X-Men film, where many opine that this era began, there have been fans that complain about the distance between staying faithful and wildly original. More often than not, their favorite characters perform strangely or against their true character. It’s not been the case with Wolverine, who was played for 18 years by Hugh Jackman, an Australian stage actor who was allowed a chance to shine when Dougray Scott injured his shoulder on the set of Mission: Impossible II and caused that film to delay and overlap with the start date of Bryan Singer’s mutant opus.

2018 Edgar Award Winners!

The word is in, and the word is winners! This, as in the winners of the 2018 Edgar Awards!

The major winner is Jordan Peele’s horror allegory Get Out, which takes home the big award, Best Picture. It also managed to get Best Horror, naturally, but those two wins make it one of the sparsest winners since 2001, when Vanilla Sky won Best Picture and only Best Picture.

We’ve nearly tied a record this year, as Blade Runner 2049 has emerged as the second biggest winner in a single year, nabbing eight – Best Supporting Actress in a Drama/Fantasy (Mackenzie Davis), Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins with his 4th win), Best Visual Effects, Best Art Direction, Best Poster and the Lorenzo Music Award (which is picked randomly by the Edgars committee). Previously, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King won nine times in 2003. No other film has won more than six.

Four films managed to win four awards:

Dunkirk – Best Director for Drama/Fantasy (Christopher Nolan-his first win in five nominations), Best Drama, Best Biographical/Historical and Best Sound
Logan – Best Actor in Drama/Fantasy (Hugh Jackman-his first win in five nominations), Best Supporting Actor in Drama/Fantasy (Patrick Stewart), Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Trailer
The Shape of Water – Best Actress in Drama/Fantasy (Sally Hawkins), Best Romance, Best Original Screenplay and Best Makeup
Baby Driver – Best Director of Comedy/Animated (Edgar Wright-his second win after Hot Fuzz), Best Soundtrack, Best Editing and Best Stunts

The Disaster Artist picked up two awards for Best Comedy and Best Actor (James Franco), while the other comedy acting winners included Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird), Ray Romano (The Big Sick) and Allison Janney (I, Tonya).

The indie categories split between four winners – The Florida Project (Willem Dafoe), Ingrid Goes West (Aubrey Plaza), Mudbound (Mary J. Blige) and Call Me by Your Name (Michael Stuhlbarg). The last of those four also won Best Indie itself.

Featured awards include the Robin Williams Memorial Award, with this year’s recipient being Bill Paxton; the Richard Harris Lifetime Achievement Award was rewarded to Hayao Miyazaki; and the Hall of Fame inductees are Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List and It Happened One Night.

See the full list of winners below:

Best Picture-Get Out

Best Drama-Dunkirk
Best Director of a Drama/Fantasy-Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
Best Actor in a Drama/Fantasy-Hugh Jackman, Logan
Best Actress in a Drama/Fantasy-Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water
Best Supporting Actor in a Drama/Fantasy-Patrick Stewart, Logan
Best Supporting Actress in a Drama/Fantasy-Mackenzie Davis, Blade Runner 2049

Best Comedy-The Disaster Artist
Best Director of a Comedy-Edgar Wright, Baby Driver
Best Actor in a Comedy-James Franco, The Disaster Artist
Best Actress in a Comedy-Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy-Ray Romano, The Big Sick
Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy-Allison Janney, I, Tonya

Best Animated Film-Coco
Best Voice Acting-Michael Cera, The Lego Batman Movie
Best Foreign Film-It’s Only the End of the World, Canada
Best Documentary-Jane
Best Streaming Film-The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Worst Film-The Emoji Movie

Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy-Blade Runner 2049
Best Horror-Get Out
Best Action/Adventure-Thor: Ragnarok
Best Crime/Thriller-Wind River
Best Biographical/Historical-Dunkirk
Best Romance-The Shape of Water
Best Western-Wind River

Best Indie-Call Me by Your Name
Best Indie Director-Ben & Joshua Safdie, Good Time
Best Indie Actor-Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
Best Indie Actress-Aubrey Plaza, Ingrid Goes West
Best Indie Supporting Actor-Michael Stuhlbarg, Call Me by Your Name
Best Indie Supporting Actress-Mary J. Blige, Mudbound

Best Adapted Screenplay-Logan
Best Original Screenplay-The Shape of Water
Best Soundtrack-Baby Driver
Best Song-“Come Alive”, The Greatest Showman
Best Cinematography-Blade Runner 2049
Best Visual Effects-Blade Runner 2049
Best Art Direction-Blade Runner 2049
Best Editing-Baby Driver
Best Sound-Dunkirk
Best Stunts-Baby Driver
Best Costumes-Blade Runner 2049
Best Makeup-The Shape of Water

Best Trailer-Logan
Best Poster-Blade Runner 2049
Best Cameo-Frank Oz, Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Robin Williams Memorial Award-Bill Paxton
Richard Harris Lifetime Achievement Award-Hayao Miyazaki
Lorenzo Music Award-Blade Runner 2049
Hall of Fame-Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List, It Happened One Night

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Thanks again to everyone who voted this year, and we all look forward to a wonderful 2018! See you next awards season!

The 2018 Edgars!

Now that the dust has cleared from those other awards, and we all can rest happy knowing Vladimir Guerrero will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame – the main event of this week can come to fruition!

That’s right, the 18th Annual Edgar Awards are here! I’m sure you were wondering what Cory and I would think of this past year, even beyond that impressive three-hour dialogue on the best of 2017. Here you’ll find our version of the awards show season, and we’d love for you to participate!

Three films are tied for most nominations, with Baby Driver, Blade Runner 2049 and I, Tonya all getting 10 nods apiece. Alongside the Edgar Wright-helmed action comedy, the four other films chosen for Best Film are Dunkirk, Get Out, Logan and The Lost City of Z.

Click through below to take a look for yourself and we hope you enjoy!

 

The 2018 Edgar Awards

 

Thank you for voting!

Podcast Dec 29 – Best and Worst of 2017

Oh boy, are you in for some fun – Cory and Tristan have compiled several lists to commemorate the closing of one of the craziest years in cinema, 2017.

The biggest Interjections podcast to date is so big I’m breaking it down for you this way:

00:00 – First, the pair goes through a handful of films they saw this week, including I, Tonya, Last Flag Flying, The Trip to Spain, Downsizing and Mudbound. Basically the pair did their weekly podcast before diving into the categorical subject matter of this end of the year review.

1:04:30 – Now that they finally get past this week, they start off with the bottom ten – Cory begins with a few dishonorable mentions, and they swap the worst ten back and forth.

1:54:25 – Cory runs through his lists of biggest disappointments and largest surprises (2:00:05).

2:06:40 – Tristan goes over the films he missed this year that he wishes he could have gotten to before this podcast (Cory’s always better at finding his way through everything).

2:12:30 – Just to prolong this even further, both share their favorite performances of the year, back and forth like the worst films. Cory starts off with his worst, naturally. Tristan follows up with his favorites.

2:22:22 – Cory goes on and on about his own favorite performances of the year.

2:29:13 – At long last, Cory and Tristan trade their top ten back and forth. Tristan has some honorable mentions!

3:26:54 – Last but not least, the Interjections duo decides to revisit their most anticipated lists from back in January, double checking whether they were right about anything, or unabashedly imprecise in their predictions.

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All in all, it was one of our best, and we hope you enjoy it. Listen in below, and remember: comment responsibly!