Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture:

 

Movie Song Parody of the Day:

The shoo-in for the Oscar for Best Original Song is parodied in a new Nerdist video. Mashing up Best Picture nominee A Star is Born with Star Wars, here’s Rey and Kylo Ren belting out a perfect send up of “Shallow”:

 

Oscar Nominees Recap of the Day:

The Oscars are just a few days away, and for the occasion, Screen Junkies’ Honest Trailers offers up a snarky recap of all of this year’s Best Picture contenders, including A Star is Born and Green Book, as well as a reminder of all the Academy’s biggest snubs:

 

Filmmaker in Focus:

In anticipation of the Oscars, where Yorgos Lanthimos is nominated for Best Director, and with his Best Picture nominee The Favourite still in theaters, IMDb highlights the trademarks of the filmmaker’s work, including the presence of awkward adults, childlike characters and blindfolds:

 

Actor in the Spotlight:

Speaking of The Favourite, the latest episode of IMDb’s No Small Parts showcases the movie and television career of Best Actress nominee Olivia Colman prior to her Oscar-worthy work with Lanthimos:

 

Movie Food of the Day

Speaking of the Oscars, Pixar’s Bao is a contender for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short, and as such it is currently in theaters as part of the Oscar-nominated shorts program. Now you can learn how to make a dumpling like those in the movie — save for the part where one comes to life — courtesy of the cooking show Binging with Babish:

 

Movie Expert of the Day:

For GQ, Alex Honnold, legendary rock climber and the subject of the hit, Oscar-nominated feature documentary Free Solo, looks at climbing scenes in major Hollywood movies, including Mission: Impossible 2, Star Trek V and The Dark Knight Rises:

 

VFX Breakdown of the Day:

The number one movie at the box office, Alita: Battle Angel, is already a good shoo-in for next year’s Oscars, at least in the Best Visual Effects category. Check out how the production accomplished its mind-blowing performance capture and more VFX in this behind the scenes video:

 

Movie Comparison of the Day:

In anticipation of the new sequel How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Couch Tomato presents 24 reasons the 2010 original How to Train Your Dragon is pretty much the same movie as the 2015 animated feature Home. Both were made by DreamWorks, just one has dragons and the other has aliens:

 

Cosplay of the Day:

Today’s cosplay showcase comes from another big How to Train Your Dragon fan looking forward to How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. Unfortunately, I don’t think this little guy will be admitted into the theater, let alone in costume as the lovable Night Fury Toothless:

 

Classic Movie Trailer of the Day:

Speaking of How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, the movie opens in theaters this Friday, so let’s revisit the first sequel to 2010’s How to Train Your Dragon and get all caught up. Here’s the original trailer for the Oscar-nominated, Golden Globe-winning How to Train Your Dragon 2, which opened on June 13, 2014: