I sure have seen it. I have been a costume designer for 20 years and can tell you just how easy, from a design and sourcing standpoint, it is to do a period film, much less a big-budget western. I would also argue that the costumes are not used to the extent that the opportunity of magical realism provides.

Cue the countdown for Andy Serkis to start flapping his fucking yap about how the artists who created the visual of the bear didn’t actually do any work...

But nobody will beat the costumes for ‘The Revenant’! Wowza! Groundbreaking!

‘Best Costume Design’? Sorry, got you on that one.

Agreed, and buzzkill: everyone elsewhere isn’t quite as aware as us Angelenos are of what the HFPA actually is, meaning, where the Globes come from. I used to run the press screenings for all 90-ish of ‘em. They were always sniffing around to see if I had brought the Costco-sized tubs of Red Vines. Many of them didn’t…

This, and America’s gown. That yellow. The drape. Fucking sick. Puts all the drifty beige gowns to the left.

the retro deco golden-age-comics subtlety of that dress print and color is blowing my mind

It’s not the digital bear who should win the Oscar. It’s my colleagues in the VFX field who made that thing believable. RECOGNIZE!

I’M WOKE BITCH

Will Turner! Fond memories of yesteryear. I just watched that for the first time in years, after it popped up on the Netflix Inst’. So delicious!

*BOWS DOWN.*

Not a lot of women could work that massive close-up for eternity. When I show my students this film, they have no idea who she is, but by the time she climbs through Thorwald’s window they’re gasping and clapping, and so am I, every time.

Finally watching Penny Dred and all I can say is GHHGHGHSHGHBHHGHGHGHGHGHG

I seriously did a double-take - this photo could have been from twenty years ago. WORK.

ALSO DO WANT

Yeaaaah....words like that can trip kids up for a while. I mean - I have students in their 30s who still use ‘theyre’ (without the damned apostrophe!?) for ‘their.’

More: finishing the three books I’m working on. Less: sitting at my desk, not finishing the three books I’m working on.

oh...my god.

Huzzah!