my guesses for Sunday night’s 86th Academy Awards
Winners are indicated. I got 16/24. Pretty good, if I may say so myself.
Amy Adams
do major nominations or awards help you decide which movies to see?
Now with a poll for a quick response!
Her movie 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.
American Hustle review: the humor, it burns
Bursting with insanely engaging characters who are impossibly real and impossibly ridiculous whose stories you don’t ever want to end.
American Hustle trailer: David O. Russell has a new movie! David O. Russell has a new movie!
I don’t even care what it’s about, I’m there.
Man of Steel review: man of feel
Towers with ambition, swelled by sweeping philosophies about power and presence on scales both planetary and personal, beautifully balanced by a wellspring of wry tragedy.
the 85th Academy Award nominees
With links to my reviews. I’ll be adding reviews of the last few films I haven’t yet covered between now and the Oscars.
Trouble with the Curve (review)
Poor Clint Eastwood! He’s a Gran Torino old coot in a Moneyball world…
On the Road (review)
If you didn’t know that Jack Kerouac’s novel was a seminal influence on postwar America, you would never, ever guess it from this lifeless, soulless, pointless adaptation.
Trouble with the Curve (trailer)
Clint Eastwood does Moneyball in reverse. Except it’s funny cuz he’s an old geezer who doesn’t know how to pronounce feng shui.
