Welcome to the year 2018.

Place your bets… The 2018 Oscar nominations have been released. Guillermo Del Toro’s fantasy romance The Shape of Water has garnered the most nominations at 13. Followed by Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri at nine nominations and Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk with 8 nods.[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f"> <v:stroke joinstyle="miter

It being the beginning of that most non-Halloween time of the year we here at Culturally Significant! want to foucs on the thing that matters most during this holiday season...Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks, born in 1956, has grown from a talented comedic actor to a national institution. Ask anyone you know to state thier favorite actor and they will probably mention Tom Hanks. Ask them the most cordial person in Hollywood right now and they without a doubt will mention Tom Hanks. I ca

The first trailer for the The Shape of Water has been released. The latest creation from visionary director Guillermo del Toro. The official synopsis states “In 1963, in a hidden, high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa is trapped in a life of silence and isolation. Elisa's life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda discover a secret classified experiment.” The opening narration asks the question “if I told you about her — the princess with