That year also had Darkest Hour, Dunkirk, Phantom Thread and Three Billboards as other BP nominees, so Shape of Water was hardly the most conventional awards-bait movie of the bunch.

I completely forgot Cave In existed. Years ago my Pandora station used to play one of their tracks regularly, but it’s been a long time.

Not Roy Andersson, because he has an extra ‘s’ in his surname.

But The Master is about Aquaman.

Alex Ross Perry’s Impolex perhaps didn’t have sufficient runtime for that.

I prefer the “bad” PTA of Inherent Vice to most of his “good” films. But this one doesn’t seem like it would appeal as much to fans of The Big Lebowski.

The film rights to the Don Winslow novel of the same name (and its sequel) have been bought, so I wonder what title they’ll use for that.

That’s the Oscars for you. Playing a real person in a biopic beats a fictional character in a comedy.

“Awesome possum”, as in that Louis CK bit.

impersonating the Oscar-winner

“posi”?

There was a recent David Bowie movie which didn’t have any rights (and thus couldn’t use any songs he wrote)... but also didn’t bother to be anything other than a conventional biopic about what a great artist he was.

Gwen asked about McKenna changing her hair to play a brunette... but she’d already done that in The Haunting of Hill House (although that seemed to be just a dye job without much other change).

Not Finnish enough, perhaps some Amorphis instead.

I did not know he directed an episode of Oz. That was unexpected.

Retconning Deckard into being a replicant certainly is.

A tumblr dedicated (mostly) to A Song of Ice and Fire clued me into another of Heinlein’s stories set on the moon, “The Menace From Earth”. It wasn’t the sort of thing I expected from him.

What about George Lucas?

In interviews for “The Last Duel” he got similarly blunt saying anybody who didn’t like it must be stupid. I’d say it makes for a more interesting interview. He’s too old to bother saying anything other than what’s on his mind.

Slashers are named after their antagonists, but those antagonists don’t necessarily receive much characterization.