The Words on Flicks Show January 2024: The Road to the Oscars with Derrick Thompson

 

Welcome Words On Flicks fans and friends to the February 2024 edition of the podcast. I’m your host, entertainment journalist and movie fan Janine Coveney. The subject for today is the upcoming Academy Awards ceremony, otherwise known as The Oscars, which takes place on Sunday March 10^th, so still three weeks away. For this episode, I am joined by frequent contributor Derrick Thompson to kick around some thoughts about what the Oscars will bring in terms of statuettes for the last year’s crop of films.  

Join us as we discuss the Politics versus Performance aspects of Oscar voting, as well as weighing Oppenheimer against The Holdovers, Lily Gladstone versus Emma Stone, the marketing of musicals, the generational change in actors, the merits of Jeffrey Wright, and so much more!

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Derrick Thompson is a writer, director and producer who co-founded Nail Biter Productions, a company specializing in digital and original scripted television content. The company’s first web series ROMP is currently up on You Tube. Thompson's background is in the music industry with stints at both Def Jam and EMI working with the likes of LL Cool J and Arrested Development. Eventually Derrick found his way to the newly formed BMG Music Publishing, where he eventually became Senior Vice President of Talent and oversaw the company’s expanding R&B/Hip-hop roster. During his successful tenure at BMG, he brought the likes of Mobb Deep, Nelly, Erykah Badu and Lupe Fiasco into the BMG music publishing family.  And like many of us in the entertainment biz, he is a big fan of movies.

ABOUT THE WORDS ON FLICKS SHOW
The Words On Flicks Show is a celebration and analysis of everything on the big and small screen from a strictly fan perspective with host Janine Coveney. New releases, old movie classics, favorite actors, soundtracks, film history, themes, tropes, gimmicks and reviews – each show will delve into a topic for the month, with fun and fascinating commentary from special guests.

ABOUT THE HOST

Janine Coveney is a veteran lifestyle and entertainment journalist who has written for Essence, Billboard, Launch, Huffington Post, EURWeb and more. You can read her movie reviews at wordsonflicks.blogspot.com.

The Words On Flicks Show Dec. 2023: Favorite Movies of The Year with Special Guests

 

The year 2023 is coming to a close, so WOFS host Janine Coveney invites previous guests – journalist A. Scott Galloway and content creator Derrick Thompson – as well as first-time guest, journalist and author Anita M. Samuels, to talk about one of our favorites, the newly released American Fiction, as well as Killers of the Flower Moon, and other top movies of the year. What did we like? Why did we like it? What did we hate? Will the Oscars follow suit? Tune in! 

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ABOUT OUR GUESTS

Anita M. Samuels is a nationally acclaimed journalist and critic who writes about media, fashion, music and culture. A frequent contributor to the New York Daily News, Samuels began her career on the staff of the New York Times style section, where a number of her features about the African-American community earned her an award from the National Association of Black Journalists in 1992. Samuels has been an editor for national publications as BET Weekend, Billboard, Heart & Soul, and Impact Radio, Records and Retail Weekly. Her stories have also appeared in Essence, The Source, Consumer’s Digest, Global Rhythm magazine, The Asbury Park Press, Upscale, Honey, CODE, Caribbeat, Forum, Child Magazine, fierceforblackwomen.com and diversebusinessnews.com, among others. She was a contributing writer for Mama’s Little Baby: The Black Woman’s Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth and Baby’s First Year and the April 2024 anthology, We Refuse to Be Silent . She is the author of Rants & Retorts: How Bigots Got a Monopoly on Commenting About News Online. Samuels resides in Brooklyn, New York.

A. Scott Galloway is a prolific Los Angeles-based Music Journalist who has been writing about music since 1988 for magazines that include Urban Network, Wax Poetics and the U.K.’s Blues & Soul – interviewing artists from Max Roach to Maxwell. His specialty niche is composing liner note essays for reissues and compilations of classic recordings for which he has written over 300. As it relates to history in Black Film, those credits include the 25th anniversary Deluxe 2-CD reissue of Curtis Mayfield’s “Superfly,” “The Reel Quincy Jones” compilation of the composer/conductor’s film music, “The Best of Shaft” compilation of songs and cues from the “Shaft” film trilogy, the golden era Motown time capsule “Cooley High,” a pairing of Gladys Knight & The Pips’ “Claudine” w/ “Pipe Dreams,” and the various artists compilation “Super Bad On Celluloid.” Mr. Galloway is also the Editor of the 2013 Hal Leonard deluxe coffee table book “Down The Rhodes: The Fender Rhodes Story.” And he wrote the foreword for Les McCann’s book of photography “Invitation to Openness.”

 

Derrick Thompson is a writer, director and producer who co-founded Nail Biter Productions', a company specializing in digital and original scripted television content. The company’s first web series ROMP is currently up on You Tube. Thompson's background is in the music industry with stints at both Def Jam and EMI working with the likes of LL Cool J and Arrested Development. Eventually Derrick found his way to the newly formed BMG Music Publishing, where he eventually became Senior Vice President of Talent and oversaw the company’s expanding R&B/Hip-hop roster. During his successful tenure at BMG, he brought the likes of Mobb Deep, Nelly, Erykah Badu and Lupe Fiasco into the BMG music publishing family.  And like many of us in the entertainment biz, he is a big fan of movies.

ABOUT THE WORDS ON FLICKS SHOW
The Words On Flicks Show is a celebration and analysis of everything on the big and small screen from a strictly fan perspective with host Janine Coveney. New releases, old movie classics, favorite actors, soundtracks, film history, themes, tropes, gimmicks and reviews – each show will delve into a topic for the month, with fun and fascinating commentary from special guests.

ABOUT THE HOST

Janine Coveney is a veteran lifestyle and entertainment journalist who has written for Essence, Billboard, Launch, Huffington Post, EURWeb and more. You can read her movie reviews at wordsonflicks.blogspot.com.