Hello and
welcome to the ninth (!!!) annual Paultacular Bruene awards! This year coming so late even I wasn’t sure if I’d ever actually finish. Due to a number of
events both foreseen and unforeseen—well, okay, basically all foreseen and
simply ill-planned-for—it took me much longer than usual to reach my arbitrary
threshold of fifty 2018 movies seen before I write this, a number I didn’t even
hit last year so frankly I don’t know why I insisted on it this year. But nevertheless.
Anyways,
here’s the format, almost entirely unchanged from the last few years. I’m going
to run through a bunch of categories and give my top five for the year (which
I’ve termed “contenders”) and then give a winner. Many of the categories are
copied from standard awards categories, plus a few of my own creation and minus
a few I don’t like or didn’t see enough to judge—I saw a few foreign language
films year, but probably not really enough to have a separate category. This is
all strictly subjective, and for the technical categories I rarely know what
I’m talking about. What do I know about editing? Do I know anything? Let’s find
out!
So without
much further ado…the Pauls!
