Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

dws1982 wrote Jia Zhangke's film Caught by the Tide has quietly become one of the most acclaimed films out of the festival, although it got buried in the discourse between Emilia Perez and The Substance. Jia has been an international mainstay for about twenty years now, so I could see him being a c...

Mister Tee wrote Beyond that...Magilla, are you on uppers or something? Did you not get from the reviews that The Substance is a horror movie? An apparently quite gross horror movie? Hasn't the experience of Hereditary and Us demonstrated that even horror movies critics rally behind just don't fly ...

The Apprentice is out. Reviews don't seem great. Gleiberman seems to like it okay. Also, the film depicts him as a rapist. https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/20/the-apprentice-review-cartoon-version-of-chump-in-chief-donald-trumps-early-years?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=edit_2221&ut...

Assuming it's a deserving performance, that would be nice for Demi Moore to get an Oscar nomination at this point in her career. I wrote a post a little while ago about Sharon Stone's ubiquity when I was growing up and how quickly it seemed to flame out following her sole successful-ish bid for resp...

The Substance is getting very good reviews. The return of Demi Moore. https://www.indiewire.com/criticism/movies/the-substance-review-margaret-qualley-demi-moore-body-horror-1235006738/ https://variety.com/2024/film/reviews/the-substance-review-margaret-qualley-demi-moore-dennis-quaid-1236009235/ ht...

Greg wrote As it is in competition for both, they will likely give Emilia Perez the Queer Palm, rather than the Palme d'Or. As of now, I think it's the front-runner to win the Palme d'Or. Greg wrote The negative reactions (Ehrlich is far from alone) came after I'd posted this. Not surprising, as Au...

Mister Tee wrote The buzziest title so far appears to be Jacques Audiard's Emilia Perez: Looks like a love it/hate it film. David Ehrlich has it at a C+ but describes it as "not unmemorable." Still plenty to go but if enough people love it but unless something else knocks their socks off ...

Sounds interesting but maybe not a winner. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/kinds-of-kindness-review-emma-stone-jesse-plemons-yorgos-lanthimos-1235896796/ https://www.indiewire.com/criticism/movies/kinds-of-kindness-review-yorgos-lanthimos-1235005999/ https://www.theguardian.co...

For the last few weeks, Allan Lichtman has been telling everyone that all the keys have been settled except for four. Last night, he gave a projection of how they're leaning right now (don't you love politics?): -No Third Party (True) -No Social Unrest (True) -Foreign-Military Success (False) -No Fo...

Reza wrote Who is this madman and why would he even make such a statement in this day and age? Wonder how he would feel his home State getting nuked instead. Oh God. That's Lindsay Graham. South Carolina Republican Senator. You don't really need to pay attention to him. I think it's fair to say he'...

Indie roundup. I found I Saw the TV Glow silly, irritating, powerful, and sometimes all three at once. I don't think that's a bad thing. It's the latest from Jane Schoenbrun who directed We're All Going to the World's Fair, a film that becomes more important the more I think about it, and they're dr...

He was 98. I thought he had already passed.

https://www.indiewire.com/news/obituary ... 67f4510774

Sabin wrote Well, this is going to be interesting. https://twitter.com/briticoyemo/status/ ... dY0oA&s=01 And it wasn't. I just finished Baby Reindeer. I'll damn it with faint criticism. I wasn't a fan of the final episode, which is half therapeutic and half open-ended-cycle of abuse. There's n...

Onto more normal news, a worm ate RFK Jr’s brain.

Well, this is going to be interesting.

https://twitter.com/briticoyemo/status/ ... dY0oA&s=01