OFCS 2022 awards winners announced
Everything Everywhere All at Once leads with six wins; The Banshees of Inisherin takes fours awards. Twelve films overall earned awards.
loaded question: what film from the prestreaming era were you obsessed with that would be considered obscure now?
Bonus points if you can dig up a 40-year-old VHS cover.
#DailyStream weekly roundup
The #DailyStream is a once-per-day, single-movie-only streaming recommendation that appears both at my Substack and Patreon, and in truncated forms across my social media. They are free for everyone.
A Man Called Otto movie review: a rare misfire for Tom Hanks
With cowardly mildness, this white-bread mush misuses its star’s likability. Tom Hanks trying to be grumpy yet endearing has the opposite impact. He’s somehow less endearing than he’s been before.
Weekend Watchlist is now the #DailyStream
And they’re free for everyone!
AWFJ 2022 EDA Awards winners announced
The Banshees of Inisherin, Everything Everywhere All at Once, and Women Talking tie for the most awards, at four apiece.
loaded question: what video game would you like to see adapted for film or TV?
Whom would you cast in major roles, and whom would you like to see direct it or act as showrunner?
I’m guesting on movie podcast SpyHards again
I join special agents Scott and Cam to talk about the 2017 Doug Liman film American Made.
loaded question: what’s the worst movie you saw in 2022?
I’m thinking specifically about 2022’s new releases — streaming only or actually in cinemas — but if there’s a mega-stinker from earlier years that you saw for the first time in 2022, I’ll take that, too.
Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb documentary review: slow journalism
The crisp, congenial charms of this intimate exploration of a decades-long working partnership overlay an unsentimental elegy for an era in journalism and publishing that has all but disappeared.
