Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Saw it last night and admired it even more. But it was in a small theater in my town (I usually ride over to Huntsville for movies), with thin, not very well-insulated walls. So at the exact moment where Armstrong steps down onto the surface of the moon, the soundtrack goes silent, and we get a feel...

I'm going to fall on the positive side of this one, although I also don't know that the A Star is Born narrative is necessarily the ideal vehicle for what most seems to occupy Cooper, which is the difficulty and pain of loving someone who doesn't (and can't) love themselves, who doesn't have any res...

It's easy to see why Clint Eastwood was attracted to this story about ten years ago. (I think it was initially going to be a follow-up to his Iwo Jima duo.) Neil Armstrong is a classic Eastwood hero--driven by a sense of duty, somewhat distant in his personal relationships, reluctant to divulge much...

Two (very different) documentaries: RBG is the first. Let me give my disclaimer: I'm a right-leaning moderate (did not and will not ever vote for Trump), so take that into account. Maybe that colors my reaction to this, maybe not. The idea of Supreme Court justice documentaries is not bad at all, so...

As for that "ending"...in my youth, there was a long-running comic strip called Winnie Winkle. At one point, somewhere around 1960/61, she was said to be dead -- and I remember my father saying "How long till we find out she's still alive?" Same deal here. If you believe Marvel ...

I'm more in line with Mister Tee's take than those that flat-out HATED it . Yes - I can imagine one hating, say, Caligula or even - though it is a masterpiece - A Clockwork Orange... but hating The Wife?! Indifference, I can understand - but hatred is a bit too much honestly. Or maybe I'm just too ...

Blade Runner 2049 , although I would rate Dunkirk a very close second. My picks for the year: 1- The Lost City of Z 2- A Cure For Wellness 3- Blade Runner 2049 4- Dunkirk 5- Phantom Thread I would rate Mudbound as a very worthy nominee, and I think Call Me By Your Name , Good Time , and the underra...

Waterston's best episode ever was from a season where he got edged out for a nomination though. Completely assuming here but I think maybe you and I are the biggest Law and Order fans here....Aftershock right? I was actually thinking of "Under the Influence" from a couple of seasons later...

I just never thought anything screamed Emmy about her in a procedural type way any more than like a Sam Waterston never winning for Law and Order. I feel like at its best, Law & Order did give its actors showcases that were at least on the level of what was winning Emmys at the time. Waterston'...

Since this is part of the Oscar conversation, I suppose it deserves a thread of its own, mainly so we can discuss it with spoilers. So, if you haven't watched it yet, SPOILERS AHEAD. I'm not going to do like this movie did and try to hide things from my audience: I'll be very upfront and tell you th...

Reviews on this are mixed/positive, but Chris Pine's full-frontal scene is overshadowing much of the talk on the movie itself, and that can't be a good thing. https://variety.com/2018/film/festivals/outlaw-king-review-chris-pine-1202929757/ https://www.screendaily.com/reviews/outlaw-king-toronto-rev...

This one has a big hurdle with me in the fact that Dafoe is nearly thirty years older than Van Gogh was when he died. I try not to get too wound up over casting but I'm not sure that I can get past this.

Corbet's The Childhood of a Leader kind of gave me a "what the hell was that?" reaction, but it was one of the most ambitious debuts I've seen in ages. Definitely a filmmaker I'll be watching.

I liked this a lot. It has the normal Spike Lee pacing problem for me: Pacing on individual scenes is fine, but it feels overlong as whole. At one point I checked my watch, expecting it to be an hour into the film, and I was shocked that it was only forty minutes in. Second half is better-paced, in ...

Carole Shelley Dies: ‘Odd Couple’ Star And Tony Award-Winning Actress Was 79 by Dino-Ray Ramos Born in London, Shelley was a star of stage and screen. She made her Broadway debut in 1965 in the original cast of Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple. In 1975, she received a Tony Award nomination for her role i...