you can live-stream the Oscars online tomorrow night!*
*In a few places, as long as you already have access to it on your TV.
Oscars
20 Feet from Stardom: raw real voices
This must-see music documentary introduces us to the extraordinary women you didn’t know were behind some of the songs you know by heart.
Dirty Wars review: the self-perpetuating “War on Terror”
An infuriating and depressing look at how American foreign policy and warfare have been transformed in highly undemocratic ways, and a reminder of what real journalism looks like.
what would it take for a superhero movie to win the Oscar for Best Picture?
Here’s an idea: tell a story about a female superhero who has to fight not only bad guys but cultural assumptions. Cast Jennifer Lawrence.
theater critic sees a few films, figures that’s basis enough to trash film critics
You’d think that the sorry state of arts criticism would create a sort of camaraderie among those still lucky enough to be employed as critics…
Oscar Best Picture nominee marathon at AMC multiplexes around the U.S. starts today
Here’s a great way to catch up on the film you missed…
Alone Yet Not Alone trailer: the most horrifically racist thing you’ll see this year
This is really hard to take when it’s supposedly the work of people who think Jesus has their back.
Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts (86th Academy Awards) review
There is a single thread running through these shorts, and it is deeply existential and irreducibly personal: How do we save ourselves?
dammit dammit dammit, Philip Seymour Hoffman is gone
Every movie he touched was better for it.
Gloria review: can you handle the truth?
A smart, incisive portrait of a woman who lives life on her own terms and doesn’t let herself get pushed around.
