AWFJ 2023 EDA Awards winners announced
The Zone of Interest, Killers of the Flower Moon, and Barbie are the big winners.
Eric Roth
Killers of the Flower Moon movie review: blood for oil (London Film Festival 2023)
A great American filmmaker on a memory-holed chapter of American history at the intersection of colonialism and toxic masculinity. Massive, epic, and essential. Scorches the earth of our complacency.
AWFJ 2021 EDA Awards winners announced
And the winners are…
my picks for tonight’s 91st Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2018’s films) (winners indicated)
I correctly guessed 9 out of the 24 categories, which is appalling. I shall be in my corner reprimanding myself.
A Star Is Born movie review: a perfect movie in all ways
Instantly sweeps us up in its passion, its electricity, its music, and characters to fall in love with. Lady Gaga is a revelation. It’s impossible to believe Bradley Cooper has never directed before. I adore this movie.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (review)
I appreciate that many people have many problems with this movie, but I confess that I don’t quite understand them…
my week at the movies: ‘Defiance,’ ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,’ ‘The Reader,’ ‘Revolutionary Road,’ ‘Gran Torino’
No official “press” screenings for me this week — it’s all FYC screenings. That is, “for your consideration.” These are specialty screenings that the studios hold for members of critics’ organizations, AMPAS (the “Academy” that awards the Oscars), and other industry guilds who will be voting on their year-end acclaims in the early weeks of … more…
