Srsly. “Basic Lupine Urology” should have been the end of all Law & Order.

EYES ON BREEN

Acting Oscars should not be given out for past performances. That’s what the Lifetime Achievement Oscar is for. People should win for the performance they’re nominated for.

Why wouldn’t I be?

“literally one line”

I know, I was making a joke about his sound editing.

I have a general impression that it’s a bit of a subjective popularity thing but surely anyone who takes it even a little bit seriously has to have a rubric of some kind.

Right? How did anyone know what the screenplay contained, given that we couldn’t hear the dialogue?

as I’ve never quite understood what standards the awards use to determine these noms

One performance I would have liked to see recognized was Holt McCallany as Fritz von Erich in The Iron Claw. That movie was generally not particularly inspired (I mean, it was fine as a biopic, if extremely depressing) but McCallany was pretty electric as the monomaniacal family patriarch.

He was referring to the printer brand.

Sir, I’m afraid you’re being too Australian.

If nothing else, this movie might help to inoculate elderly viewers against phishing scams.

Yeah, dirty ol’ trucker hat and Jason Statham do not mix.

Right? Literally two scenes and both times she’s talking to Jeremy Irons on the phone and then that’s the end of it.

I mean, he does make a point during the movie of criticizing the bad guys specifically for victimizing the elderly. I’m not joking.

I just got back from seeing The Beekeeper. It’s kind of an odd duck; a lot of it is Jason Statham as Generic Invincible Secret Agent Ninja, trashing bozos, but then a larger chunk than I would have anticipated involves the various antagonists wrangling with the moral implications of the system they find themselves in.

AKSHUALLY

It knows what it did.

You’ll pay for thlis!