Fairly certain that you can see a lady have sex with a sea monster many places online for free. Or, if you’re Melania Trump, on an never ending loop in the back of your mind

That actually is enough to justify it, as Movie Pass is cheaper than one matinee screening per month (at least going by LA ticket prices).

No, and bisexual grad student who falls madly in love with his boss’s son but knows it can never be more than a fling is actually pretty subtle. I know a lot of people gay and straight who were uneasy with the age difference in CMBYN but were won over by Hammer’s buttoned-down vulnerability. I liked Richard Jenkins a…

It’s interesting, because I actually think Crimson Peak is way more romantic than The Shape of Water. I think, fundamentally, the thing that kept Shape in the realm of good instead of great, for me, was that I feel like it never really justified why she was so in love with the fishman. I mean, I get why she’d want to…

It’s about a friggin’ introverted dressmaker and the young gal he manipulates. I’m sure the description alone birthed many instant luke warm takes.

You really think Get Out would still be nominated in the 5 picture system? It’s a horror satire that’s been pumped up by its director because the success has given him an acute case “Important Artist Disease”.

In the old system he’d get an Original Screenplay nod with the possibility of winning but not much else. Genre…

I loved Get Out. I hope it wins best picture, screenplay and director. The film exceeded my expectations in each of those categories, and my expectations started out high.

YES! I’m so annoyed with how his “snub” has become this rallying cry for men’s rights types about how these nasty women can ruin a man’s career with their nasty lies. His performance is pure imitation, nothing deeper. And the film, while funny, is nothing spectacular. Most importantly, even with the new membership, I…

The Shape of Water is honestly the first Del Toro movie that didn’t make my top 20 list in ... well since Blade II, I think. It was ... fine. I’ll be happy for him if he wins. But it’s shocking that THIS is when he finally gets his due. To me anyway.

The Denzel nom just confused me. Happy to see the technical noms for Baby Driver. And it may be irrational, but I still think Bettye Gabriel from Get Out needs a lot more love. Georgina may be the most tragic character in all of Get Out and Gabriel sold every second of it.

When you do as excellent a job as PTA and DDL seem to do every time, people no longer are surprised. They get used to the excellence and expect it as the norm, rather than as exceptional.

How in God’s name did Vicky Krieps not get nominated for Phantom Thread? To me that was even more her movie than DDL’s. What an amazing, nuanced performance.

Thank you for saying that James Franco not getting a nom is not a snub. He probably wouldn’t have gotten one without the sexual misconduct allegations.

I said it in the nominees comment section but Blade Runner 2049 should have been nominated for both director and picture. I’ve seen most of the Oscar nominees for Best Picture, and it’s still my best movie of 2017 personally. The story and visuals just really got to me in a way special films can.

I’m surprised there hasn’t been more buzz around Daniel Day Lewis. In past years he’s seemed to be the focus of plenty of talk but Phantom Thread as a whole doesn’t seem to have hit the same sort of nerve with audiences that previous PTA or Lewis works have.

Katie Rife, I appreciate your opinion on Del Toro! I’ve always thought he got a little too much credit for his visual panache to no end than what his movies do with it—not that I begrudge the nominations as it does push their boundaries a bit.

I knew that Baker had no shot at a director nomination at this point in the game, but I would have preferred him to Nolan, who’s Dunkirk was technically accomplished, but kind of empty.

Blade Runner 2049 was my fave movie of the year, and it did get some technical love, but not even the AV Club liked it much as evidenced by this article. I don’t get it.

Denis Villeneuve was snubbed for Best Director.

The Florida Project not earning a Best Picture nomination strikes me as the biggest snub of the year, especially considering that the list didn’t even hit 10.