my picks for tonight’s 92nd Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2019’s films) (winners indicated)
I correctly guessed 10 out of the 24 categories, which is at least a little better than last year.
Al Pacino
AWFJ 2019 EDA Awards winners announced
And we have winners!
OFCS 2019 awards winners announced
And we have winners!
AWFJ 2015 EDA Awards winners announced
Spotlight takes four awards, including Best Film…
Ricki and the Flash movie review: rocking (down and) out
There’s some good stuff here, like the prickly relationships between women at odds with one another, but too much feels too contrived to fully satisfy.
Danny Collins movie review: the tragedy of the filthy rich rock star
Listen as the world’s tiniest violin plays on the soundtrack of this utterly obvious and clichéd three-quarter-life crisis dramedy.
Manglehorn movie review: old man bitter
Al Pacino fully arrives at old-coot-dom, ushered in by David Gordon Green in an apparent self-parody of his usual elegiacal visual style.
Her review: Manic Pixel Dream Girl
It’s the rise of the machines as romantic dramedy, and the Singularity as romantic tragedy. It’s the nicest, gentlest sci-fi horror film ever.
Stand Up Guys review: best exotic mobster parole day
Even when Walken, Pacino, and Arkin are phoning it in — on a rotary phone — they still earn their status as icons.
question of the day: What’s the most inexplicable appearance by a big star in a crappy movie?
Inspired by Movie 43, which distinguishes itself in this regard merely by the sheer number of incomprehensible movie-star appearances in a single film…
