Review-O-Sphere

   Marty Suite~Roy Webb - Marty Marty is one of the most fascinating films to have ever won the Academy Awards and I mean that in three different ways. One is because it is a great movie, two is because of how radically different it is from almost every other movie to have won the Academy Award (not to mention movies in general coming out of Hollywood at the time) and three is because of how it has one of the most hilarious production histories ever told. But we’ll get to all that in a moment, first things first. Marty is a romantic drama centered around Marty Piletti (Ernest Borgnine), a chronically single Italian-American butcher that lives in New York City with his mother, Teresa (Esther Minciotti). Marty goes through the motions of life, going to work and bringing home the money, as his friends constantly barrage and nag him about settling down and getting married. After all, most of his friends are married as are his brothers and sisters. Why can’t he find himself a w...

 To see part 1, click here . 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Suite~Paul J. Smith - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea As you can gather by this point, 1954 (or 55 when this ceremony took place) was the high water mark of the Blacklist movement in Hollywood and the Academy was probably the most conservative it had ever been (and probably ever will be). Not that this is necessarily a bad thing but, in terms of judging art, yeah, this is kind of a bad thing. I’ve come to learn that there are two types of Academy Award ceremonies we complain about here on the show. There’s ones where the actual winner sucks but then there are ones where the winner’s a good choice but the nominees they narrowed down to a top 5 are where the snubs are. Case in point: On the Waterfront is a pretty great movie. The other 4 nominees for the 27th Academy Award for Best Picture are not. The Academy decided to nominate The Caine Mutiny an overly-long and blasé ripoff of Mutiny on the Bounty (1935); The Country Gi...