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It’s that time of the year when we all bicker about which films got recognized and which got ignored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
It’s also the only time of the year when we use the word “snubbed”.
To cut through the loud, uninformed opinions, I recruited a real cinema expert — an escaped mental patient who calls himself “Max the Divine Swine” — who I think can bring some real cinema insight to the conversation.
He’s also really good at claiming responsibility for the demise of both Kmart franchises and Mussolini.
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Anyway, below are the five films that Max the Divine Swine thinks REALLY should’ve gotten Oscar love. (During my interview with Max, he took frequent breaks from our conversation to recite the Book of Revelations without using the letter ‘e’ — “to scare away the hair metal dentists”, he declared.)