highlights from #Oscars2017
Collected from my new @flickfilosopher Twitter feed…
Casey Affleck
my picks for tonight’s 89th Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2016’s films)
Now updated with winners…
OFCS 2016 awards winners announced
Moonlight wins big…
AWFJ 2016 EDA Awards winners announced
Moonlight leads, with seven awards…
The Finest Hours movie review: that sinking feeling
See this for Casey Affleck: he exudes a classic cinematic masculinity here. Alas, the rest of the film is old-fashioned in ways that are downright stodgy.
Triple 9 movie review: ordinary criminals
How did a genre-smashing director make a heist thriller so generic, with characters too unlikable to be engaging but not twisted enough to be intriguing?
Out of the Furnace review: brothers in yawns
A pungent reek of testosterone stinks up this high-toned apologetic for vigilantism and revenge. Still: great performances! (new DVD/VOD US/Can)
Tower Heist movie review: Bastille on the Hudson
For a film critic, there are few pleasures more satisfying than ripping into a bad movie. But one of those few is discovering that a film that you were expecting to hate — a movie that you had no doubts whatsoever would turn out to be utterly awful — turns out to be wonderful.
Tower Heist (trailer)
It’s funny cuz the black guy is the criminal. It’s funny cuz the Hispanic guy is stupid…
I’m Still Here (review)
Real or put-on, this is a disaster, a bratty, self-indulgent demand to be paid attention to, complete with the expectation that it will be paid attention to, because celebrity simply really is that irresistible no matter what it’s doing…
