Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

NYAD Cast: Annette Bening, Jodie Foster, Rhys Ifans. Dirs: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin. This film depicts the true story of Diane Nyad, a champion marathon swimmer, in her attempts to swim from Cuba to the Florida Keys. This is the narrative feature debut of directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarh...

THE BURIAL Cast: Jamie Foxx, Tommy Lee Jones, Jurnee Smollett, Mamoudou Athie, Alan Ruck, Bill Camp, Pamela Reed, Amanda Warren, Dorian Missick. Dir: Maggie Betts. Based on the true story of Jeremiah O'Keefe, a Southern gentleman in danger of losing his family-owned funeral home business, and hires ...

I Have Electric Dreams , Costa Rica (Valentina Maurel) 8/10 - A 16-year-old girl wishes to get out of having to live with her controlling mother and instead live with her more laidback, Bohemian father but he has issues of his own. In many ways, this is a typical coming-of-age film of a teenage gir...

The first of this year's precursor awards. Here their nominees: Best Feature Passages Ira Sachs, director; Saïd Ben Saïd, Michel Merkt, producers (MUBI) Past Lives Celine Song, director; David Hinojosa, Pamela Koffler, Christine Vachon, producers (A24) Reality Tina Satter, director; Brad Becker-Part...

Sonic Youth wrote: ↑Sat Oct 21, 2023 12:53 pm

anonymous1980 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 21, 2023 11:38 am The ending puts this over the top.

Just to clarify. By 'over the top' you mean it makes a great film even better, not 'over the top' meaning 'overdone', yes?

The former, yes.

KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal, John Lithgow, Brendan Fraser. Dir: Martin Scorsese Based on the non-fiction book by David Grann, this film is about a series of murders that befall the Osage nation after they struck i...

Story.

R.I.P.

FAIR PLAY Cast: Alden Ehrenreich, Phoebe Dyvenor, Eddie Marsan, Rich Sommer. Dir: Chloe Domont. An engaged couple's relationship slowly descends into turmoil when one of them gets a promotion at the hedge fund firm where they both work and the other doesn't. I can see this concept, in other hands, p...

Don't know if it counts as a movie -- short, I presume -- but I watched The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar the other night. It's a perfectly pleasant thing, with a (typically) over-qualified cast. Wes at this point seems all in on the narrative-within-narrative-within-narrative, and I can see peopl...

NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU Cast: Kaitlyn Dever. Dir: Bryan Duffield. A young woman with a dark past is attacked by aliens in her house. This is a deceptively simple premise. But the film has far more substance, layers, twists and surprises than you would expect in a seemingly simple genre picture such as ...

THE EQUALIZER 3 Cast: Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Eugenio Mastrandrea, David Denman, Remo Girone, Andrea Scarduzio, Andrea Dodero. Dir: Antoine Fuqua. The third installment of the film series has Robert McCall in a small town in Italy trying to find peace and quiet only to have to go up again...

The Philippines has officially announced our International Feature contender and I've already seen and reviewed it: Iti mapupukaw (The Missing) , The Philippines (Carl Joseph E. Papa) 9.5/10 - A young man without a mouth recalls the time he was abducted by aliens when he was young but memories can b...

Story.

Great actor. R.I.P.

They didn’t even need to do it this year. Two of the biggest box-office hits of the year will be nominated in the regular categories anyway: Barbie and Oppenheimer.

Concrete Utopia , South Korea (Um Tae-hwa) 8/10 - A huge devastating earthquake pretty much levels the entire city of Seoul leaving behind only one apartment building standing. Its residents fight for its survival. This is a very gripping and entertaining disaster flick with a lot more substance th...