Non-US voters (just over 20%) most likely didn’t give a shit about how “important” an award for Gladstone would be and went purely for performance. I suspect Stone and Hüller totally dominated there.

My favorite used to be “The Dreaming”, but now it is probably “Aerial”. She was a mother of a young son, staying at home, doing laundry and letting her mind wander. There are few albums in popular music about (blessed) domesticity, where the artist eschews romantic love and political causes while still staying weird…

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I thought of the same joke a few days ago, but hadn’t had the time to use it. Curse you!

I ave also seen the movie, and my question is: Is Tom Hanks cantankerous enough for the role?

I think directors have finally realized what kind of role really suits him. When you give him direction he is always kind of off in a subtle (sometimes not subtle) way, which draws the viewer to his performance even if the film may be bad. These last years he seems to be directed to “do nothing” or “be passive”, but…

The thirties is full of bad Oscar winners. “Cavalcade” is the worst. And I have seen all the best picture winners.

H&W had two or three funnyish scenes. They were all in the trailer.

I automatically deduct half a point for any movie that does this. It makes me physically cringe. 

The reviews I have seen of this in Norway has totally savaged it.

This is the only Marvel movie I would call borderline great. If there is something I hate about these movies it is “the final, epic battle”, overloaded with tiresome action with characters that have to be there because fans demand it, making the whole thing an overlong slog (I had the same problem with the last Harry…

Anne Hathaway was histrionic and, frankly, kind of shit in “Les Miserables” while she was by far the best thing in “The Dark Knight Rises” that same year, so I always imagine that she won for that instead...

I just saw her debut, “The Lizards” from 1963. It was really good. Kind of Felliniesque, but also very much its own thing.

I have only seen the long version. Thought it was close to being a masterpiece. Of the Lonergan movies I have seen it is the one that has stuck with me the most.

My favorite US directors are Malick and David Lynch and one of my favorite movies is Satantango. Paddington 2 was in my top 5 for its year...

I think “Cobra Verde” is their best film together. It manages to convey that the fact that a handful of crazy white people managed to conquer much of the world is actually kind of fantastic as the same time as showing that the consequences was horrendous, especially in parts of Africa.

I saw this a few months ago. It was lower tier Woody, but nowhere near a D, more C+.

I saw the Falconetti version for the first time a few days ago (have seen bits and pieces before), and thought her performance (especially in the first half) has aged kind of poorly. She was just...blank. After her hair was cut she was much better (as was the movie). Everything else about it worked very well,…

I am a little confused; did the writer find it strange that half algerian kabyle Isabelle Adjani played someone from the middle east/north Africa?

I sometimes visit freerepublic.com (a very, very rightwing political site; VERY) when things like this happen just to see what the reaction is there, and even there commenters (most of them anyway, a few say the jogger had it coming for running towards a man with a gun) think they should be punished. This would…