my picks for tomorrow night’s 98th Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2025’s films) (winners indicated)
I correctly guessed 12 out of the 24 categories, which is about as well as I usually do. (Ten of my “should win”s did win!) At least I’m consistent.
Kate Hudson
Rock the Kasbah movie review: whitemansplaining, the movie
Behold Bill Murray as the white savior barreling into a foreign land and teaching the ignorant natives how to be better people. Obnoxious and tone deaf.
question of the day: What was the most sexist movie or movie moment in 2011?
Yesterday’s QOTD was about a feminist net positive: the most kickass female action character of 2011. Today, we go the other way…
headlines that hurt my eyeballs
All at Google News right now…
terrible movie quotes: ‘Something Borrowed’
“Come on, Rachel. You’re 30. You can’t afford to be picky.” –Darcy (Kate Hudson)
Something Borrowed (review)
The genre always assumes we’ll sympathize with ugly, soulless, personality-free women doing terrible things to the people they supposedly care about in the pursuit of a wedding, because what is more important than landing Mr. Right, right? But even grading on that rom-com curve, this is a disgusting movie.
‘Priest’ screens for some U.K. critics (but not all); ‘Something Borrowed’ gets no screenings
I’m gonna be spending much of my day running around catching up with two new wide releases here that I was not able to see in advance…
A Little Bit of Heaven (review)
I had no idea colon cancer was so much fun! You get to lose weight… without even trying! You get to giggle your way through your first exam with your doctor: mostly cuz you’re ticklish, but also, he’s just really really cute, with a foreign accent and everything! It is so fantastic to be dying! Call it the Ass Cancer Life Plan. Every modern girl needs it.
trailer break: ‘A Little Bit of Heaven’
Ah, it’s like Love and Other Drugs, except Kate Hudson can’t commit after she develops a fatal disease, instead of before.
The Killer Inside Me (review)
This rare misfire from director Michael Winterbottom is extra disturbing because while it appears shockingly senseless, senseless is not what Winterbottom does…
