Should the Red Carpet roll out on Beale Street?

***This review of If Beale Street Could Talk has a Spoiler Section.***

Non-Spoiler Review of If Beale Street Could Talk:

Cast and Crew and Anger at the Screen Actors Guild - 2:15

Story Inception: A Most Productive Summer- 7:50

Movie Specs: If Box Office Could Talk, Listen Instead to the Critics - 8:06

Differences of Mikes - 10:40

Plot Premise/Expectations - 13:29

Production Values: Sight - 15:01

(With some Performance Review - 21:42)

Production Value: Sound - 23:17

More on the Performances - 25:44

Spoiler Music - 31:35

Carry-Overs: THE Scene - 32:58

(And Allllllll It Holds Within)

Regina Goes to Puerto Rico - 46:32

(w/ Mike1’s Issues - 51:49)

The Societal Conversation - 53:49

(The Speech at Dinner - 55:58)

Fonny’s “Criminal Act” - 57:38

Tish + Fonny as the A-Story - 59:09

Final Grades - 1:04:13

Outro - 1:05:55

We’re finishing up our movie reviews - AKA our Oscar Sprint Profiles of all the contenders for the Academy Awards. Our count of 2018 review episodes nears 40 now, and you can certainly hit up our playlists on Soundcloud to prepare yourselves for the rest of Awards Season. All OSPs feature a similar format of two reviews for the price of one. We spend the first half of each episode in non-spoilers, and then we break down all of the plot details after some spoiler warning dance music. So we hope you enjoy this week’s review of Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk.

Our non-spoiler review discusses the cast & crew filmographies, Barry Jenkins’ summer of writing two Oscar films, movie specs & all the impressive numbers associated with this movie, and then we chat about our different experiences and expectations going into Beale Street. Of course, we have full non-spoiler reviews of the production values, performances, & script, where we shine an Oscar Lens on all their awards season successes & snubs. Now full disclosure, we do give you more of an outline of this plot here, at least in a structural sense. But even still, we do avoid spoilers.

The spoiler warning dance music plays, and then we open up our spoiler section with a long and detailed breakdown of Mike 1’s best scene. The bookend sequence to this at the end of the second act is what we breakdown next. Then we discuss more best scenes and fascinating story choices from Barry Jenkins.

We’re gonna get back to the Oscar Race with our next episode as we’ll preview & predict the nominations for the Academy Awards, which is set to be announced next Tuesday, January 22nd. There will be an MMO Weekly on Monday for you all before our coverage of those Oscar announcements. We’ve been watching a lot of movies, and there’s definitely some last minute Oscar Race updates and a look at the hosting situation you won’t want to miss. Then yes, we’ll have an episode for you reacting to the Oscar Nominations ASAP on Tuesday. Our OSPs will continue until we review all of the major contenders and nominees, and then we’ll begin our category previews or overview episodes. As you wish, do go back to how we covered last awards season if you want a sampling of how those episodes will work.

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