The Movie Matchmaker

                          Academy Awards Predictions 2019 By: Livi Edmonson The 2019 awards season has sadly come to an end and what better way is there to end the season than with the 91st annual Academy Awards? I am here to predict what and who will win, could win, and most importantly,  deserves to win in some of the biggest Oscar categories of the evening. This has been one of the most unpredictable awards seasons yet with so many fantastic films of 2018 to be counted for. Tune in this Sunday, February 24th, to see who will take home the gold. Oh yeah, and a hostess Oscars at that. This shall be interesting... “Best Picture” Both the hardest category to predict and perhaps the most important one of the evening, “Best Picture” could truly go to any film, but here’s what I’m thinking… The nominees are: “A Star is Born”, “Bohemian Rhapsody”, “BlacKkKlansman”, “Green Book”, “The Favourite”, “Roma”, “Vice”, and “Black Panther”.  What  will  win (but shou

“What Men Want”: a fun, powerful, and hilarious comedy.  Directed by: Adam Shankman Rated: R Runtime: 1:57 Review by: Livi Edmonson “My self-worth is not going to come from a man’s approval.” This piece of dialogue is from Taraji P. Henson’s character, Ali Davis, in her latest rom-com, “What Men Want”. Though the film will be taken frivolously, for it obviously will not be winning any Oscars with its rotten score of 46% on Rotten Tomatoes, but the quote above proves something even more rewarding than a golden statue. It proves that women can lead a Rom-Com and end up  not  settling for a man’s expectations by the film’s conclusion. So often, we see female actresses in these boss-lady leading roles, but they always end the same, with the women settling for something or someone. “What Men Want” not only showcases Henson’s character as an independent, successful leading lady, but also as someone who isn’t afraid to go after what she wants and not what someo

McCarthy and Grant deliver the greatest performances of their career.  Directed by: Marielle Heller Rated: R Runtime: 1:47 Review by: Livi Edmonson Stunning, yet suspenseful in its simplicity, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” is easily one of the best dramas of the year, if not the decade. Based on the true story by biographer Lee Israel (played by Melissa McCarthy), the film follows Lee as she impersonates Katharine Hepburn, Dorothy Kilgallen, as well as many other Hollywood figures, in archived letters that she supposedly was given by her “cousin”. The forgery began when Lee actually  did  stumble upon a real letter in a library book she was reading. Once she learned she could earn a serious amount of profit from writing the letters, the lonely author began researching these icons to make sure her impersonations were flawless. The crazy part about all of it is that she was able to really pull it off- kind of… Excited by her newest hidden profession, Lee Israel ma