The Academy nixes Best Popular Film from this year’s Oscars
Earlier in the summer, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced a few changes to their Oscar broadcast. Most of the details were ...
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First Trailer for Green Book is out
There have only been a handful of thoughtful dramas in 2018 so far. This genre, once home to countless Oscar-bait films, has downsized ...
Oscars to add new category “designed around achievement in popular film”
Those Academy Awards just can’t seem to please everyone. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences aka AMPAS aka the Academy announced some ...
Having a Best Popular Movie category at the Oscars is actually a really nice idea
Earlier in the week, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, or the Academy, announced that they were changing up some of their ...
How to understand the insanity that is the Flixist writers
Flixist has been around since 2010, but for many regular Destructoid readers you’re just getting to know us. We’re glad you seem to ...
Netflix is in the market for a gently used movie chain
Netflix is set to release 80 movies this year, and by virtue of “something has to stick,” at least a few of them ...
Shape of Water themed dildos sell like hotcakes after Best Picture win
Look, we’ve all been there. You’re showing your parents the master bedroom after a night of serious self-loving, and there twisted in your ...
5 times the Razzies were WRONG
There was a time in my life where I swore by the Razzies and Razzie nominations. While the Oscars promote some of the ...
The Oscars are over and the winners are here
Look, I know a lot of big things happened at the Oscars last night, but if you’re a big film buff the biggest ...
Full list of 2017 Oscar winners, and an official statement on the insane Best Picture mistake
Last night’s Oscar ceremony seemed to be going as expected, with La La Land taking the most awards (six total), though everything was ...
Seth Meyers’ Oscar Bait takes jabs at all the awards season tropes
Ahh, Oscar bait. We know it when we see the trailer–the pandering tone, the appeal to non-denominational spiritual uplift, the all-star cast or ...
Honest Trailers runs through the 2017 Oscars’ Best Picture nominees
The Oscars are this weekend, which means everyone gets to complain about the Academy letting them down in some way. This is an ...