It’s that time again! We all picked our favorites at the end of the year; the guilds have spoken; critics groups have doled out their laurels (and/or fishes); and now, nearly a quarter of the way through 2026 (Thanks, Olympics), it’s finally time for the Academy to put a bow on the movies of 2025 with the Oscars. In advance of Sunday’s telecast – hosted once again by Conan O’Brien – airing at 4:00 PDT on ABC and Hulu (thanks, East Coast), your friends at the SunBreak gathered ’round the old roundtable to make our predictions on how the awards will (and should) go when all’s said and done.
Tag: Jacob Elordi
Wuthering Heights in bad decline
Wuthering Heights is both the title of Emily Brontë’s only novel, published in 1847, and a new film by Emerald Fennell, out this week, which I will refer to as “Wuthering Heights.” One bears some resemblance to the other, but not too much, hence the quotation marks. It is like when there was once a Seattle rock band called “The Rolling Stones.”
Mary Shelley would be giddy over del Toro’s Frankenstein
The story is a metaphor for many things and if you read it in high school English I’m sure you discussed more than your fair share of conclusions, so I’ll digress from that. However, what I’ve read of and from her, Mary Shelley loved the macabre. Dark stories that hit at the heart of our deepest desires and most crippling weaknesses. Intensity is the key. I had an inkling, but even while watching del Toro’s take on this story, I was confident Shelley would be enthralled by his re-imagining.


