the foco dad
a stay-at-home dad muses about raising his two children
Category: Movies
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Two years ago the winner of best documentary feature at the Oscars was a movie called 20 Days in Mariupol, directed by Mstyslav Chernov. The movie includes compelling and tragic footage and interviews from the first few weeks of Ukraine’s war with Russia following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. It was one of…
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Timothée Chalamet is not going to win the Oscar for Actor in a Leading Role. That’s a prediction for who will not win, but predicting the winner this year feels like a guessing game in a way it hasn’t for years. I used to post Oscar predictions on an old blog. I was just looking…
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If you know me, you know that I love movies and, to complement that love of movies, I listen to and also love The Big Picture, the esteemed podcast from The Ringer with hosts Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins. I do not miss an episode and, on occasion, I even listen to them discuss a…
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Twenty-one years ago Kate and I were driving back to the University of Wyoming from Longmont, Colorado. We made it as far as Cheyenne before the interstates iced over, visibility dropped to almost nothing, and the road to Laramie closed. Stranded in Cheyenne on Oscar Sunday, we made the most of it by staying at…