Film Feature: Carrie and Chris Pick the 2019 Oscars

Film critics Carrie and Chris on who will – and who should – win the 91st Academy Awards

The 91st Academy Awards air this Sunday, February 24th, on ABC at 5:00 pm PST (with the requisite pre-show fashion assessments starting hours before). As they did last year, Spinning Platters film critics Carrie Kahn and Chris Piper share their predictions – and hopes – for the major categories.  Guild awards – often harbingers of Oscars to come – have been all over the map this year, so there may actually be some genuine surprises. Tune in on Sunday to see how things play out, and to find out if we correctly read the minds of Academy voters.

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Film Review: “Hall Pass”

Jenna Fischer, Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis, and Christina Applegate in HALL PASS. Photo by Peter Iovino – © 2011 New Line Productions, Inc.

starring: Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis, Jenna Fischer, Christina Applegate, Nicky Whelan, Richard Jenkins, Stephen Merchant

directed by: Peter & Bobby Farrelly

MPAA: Rated R for crude and sexual humor throughout, language, some graphic nudity and drug use.

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