I knew the subject matter of this film, and it’s still not an easy two hours. Timothee Chalamet and Steve Carell carry this two hander, about the relationship of a father and son, as the son has a lifelong fight with drug addiction. Every family has some version of this: the person you love […]
‘Battle of the Sexes’ sits in a weird spot. It’s a fun movie while not a straight up comedy; it covers a serious topic while also not being too heavy handed about it. I think that’s why I enjoyed a lot of its individual parts more than I liked the movie as a whole. […]
Here are the nominees for Best Actress: Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything Julianne Moore – Still Alice Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl Reese Witherspoon – Wild Who Should Win: While I normally feel meh about ‘career achievement’ awards, Julianne Moore is a respectable choice, with no shame […]
Very sad and disturbing, but all in an entertaining way. Like the other nominated movies that are ‘based on a true story’, you can Google the real people and get all the broad strokes and facts of this story. The beauty of the dramatization in Foxcatcher is in the deadly three way relationship between the Schultz […]
