Jayne ,'Ariel'
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"Hott Fuzz" maybe--are you getting that in the states?
Yes! Ironically, the first (US) press screening for it was last night, meaning we technically could have gone to see that instead of 23. (If DH wasn't being paid to review 23, I have to keep reminding myself. My GOD that movie sucked.)
HA. It's very promotionalized over here, for obvious reasons. I was going to give it a pass, but then I realised it's the SOTD guys, and was all enthusiastic.
They brought clips to Comic-Con this summer, and I liked what I saw. Maybe not quite as much as Shaun, but enough to get me into theatres.
(BBCA is running Spaced right now, which is also made of awesome.)
BBCA is running Spaced right now, which is also made of awesome
Oooh. Need to go looking for that.
(If DH wasn't being paid to review 23, I have to keep reminding myself. My GOD that movie sucked.)
Will Fonebone be able to enjoy the satisfaction of turning in a vitriolic review?
I've been watching Spaced on youtube AIFG.
Stylus' Alternative Oscar Picks
Some very interesting picks.
For example, in Best Supporting Actor:
Steve Carell (Little Miss Sunshine)
During the more implausible scenarios in Little Miss Sunshine—a teenager takes a vow of silence to honor Nietzsche, an ex-lover who should be safely tucked away at Yale turns up in a remote gas station, a hospital loses a corpse—Uncle Frank raises his eyebrows in bemusement. Then, without fail, he accepts his bizarre circumstances. The man is an outsider to his dysfunctional family, silently and hilariously commenting on the action with every line of his face. Steve Carrell brings a welcome injection of irony to an absurdist comedy. Just before the suicidal scholar schtick gets old, he unleashes the Frat Pack comedy and joins the zaniness, shuffling birdlike into glass doors with his shoulders shrugged to the sky. [L. Michael Foote]
Skimming through that list I didn't feel much urge to read more deeply on any of the nominees with whom I wasn't already familiar, just because nominating Jack Nicholson was a credibility killer for me. Even more than nominating SBC.
How Jack Nicholson avoids self-parody in Martin Scorsese’s brilliant return to form defies modern science.
Uh, really? Okay.
Steve Carrell blew me away in LMS. I went in fully expecting to be put off by him, but instead I was completely interested and invested in his character. He put such depth and unspoken pain and ache into the characterisation that I felt every inch of what he was going through. Carrell really impressed me.