Bradley Cooper gets his third nomination in a row as the title character in this Oscar nominee. To address the personal elephant in the room, ‘Can I separate our obviously different ideologies from Clint Eastwood’s craft?’ The answer: I (try to) do it all the time when it comes to art. Saying this film is […]
Based on Jane Hawking’s book, ‘The Theory of Everything’ is the love story of Stephen and his college sweetheart. Eddie Redmayne gives a knockout performance as the brilliant physicist who most of us know only from our image of him in his current physical state. Felicity Jones plays Jane and (in my opinion) the […]
As we’re in the middle of comparing great acting performances, I have to apply the same standard across the board. Michael Jackson, my personal favorite artist ever, probably the greatest pop star of all time. Great actor at times like Sinatra? No. Good actor even? Um…. Look, even the best actors figure out what they […]
‘You confuse love with admiration.’ Can I stop right there? Please? Alright, I’ll write a full review… No surprise why so many actors/artists/Hollywood types love this one. The original Dark Knight, Michael Keaton, stars as a past his prime movie star who tries to return to relevancy by staging a Broadway play. The rest of […]
For better in this case, I knew next to nothing about Alan Turing going into ‘The Imitation Game’, so I could watch this film with fresh eyes. The Cumberbatch headlines an all star English cast in this story of a man who is considered the father of the computer. Set in World War II England, […]
One of the lead horses for Best Picture. No one can deny the ambition or not be impressed that Linklater actually pulled this off. I don’t remember who I should credit for this but I think it’s true: where you’re at in life directly impacts how you take ‘Boyhood’ in. If you’re close to having […]
Robert Duvall is nominated this year for playing the title character in this courtroom drama. The strong patriarch with three sons with different personalities, a death on a fishing boat, Robert Friggin Duvall; impossible not to draw comparisons to ‘The Godfather’. I’d still like to see Duvall, Robert Downey Jr, and Vincent D’Onofrio in an […]
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I loved this one! There’s always one ‘really small’ movie that doesn’t have a big enough machine behind it to really win Best Picture, but five years later we may look back on it as the Best Picture of the year. ‘Whiplash’ is that movie this year. I know I’m biased as a hypercompetitive narcisstic […]
Jennifer Aniston’s run to the Oscar stage came up short, but she still establishes some dramatic cred carrying this feature. The story of this one is a woman with a debilitating back injury, stuck in the mental place between pushing herself to full recovery or wallowing in depression. Her depression in part centers on an […]
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