I want to see several of those, megan!

I, Tonya, and Three Billboaords and Shape of Water particularly.

I predict you will like all three: the in-your-face sass of I, Tonya, the rage of Three Billboards, and the Caro & Jeunet look of The Shape of Water.

I predict you will like all three:

I like those odds.

I still have to sneak off to the theater to see Lady Bird.

I still have to sneak off to the theater to see Lady Bird.

As do I. And The Florida Project. And Sacred Deer.

The Shape of Water is the one I can't wait for. And I really liked The Blackcoat's Daughter.

Ditto here, I'm even willing to put up with Michael Shannon's constant pop-eyed yelling for it. (People keep telling me he's a good actor, and I keep failing to see any evidence of it.)

I wish I'd managed to see Victoria and Abdul in the week it was playing in the local theater, but I figure that one will translate well to TV for a DVD rental. And I can get my Judi Dench fix at Murder on the Orient Express.

And Sacred Deer.

The only reason I might see that is because it was filmed here. The sketchy diner where Colin Farrell meets with Creepy Kid is in my neighborhood (in fact, I took Scola there for lunch when he was here).

Look, Cincinnati, despite being a metropolitan area, is pretty damn provincial, and we get excited about movies being filmed here.

I took Scola there for lunch when he was here

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Awwww yeah, Blue Jay.

I wish I'd managed to see Victoria and Abdul in the week it was playing in the local theater

I wouldn't bother. I usually love Stephen Frears but found this subpar and to be frank, offensive. It struck me as pap colonialist apologia and despite the title, Abdul's character remains a cipher and is mostly there to prop up Victoria's late-life crisis. Judy Dench is predictably excellent in it and the movie is pretty to look at, but it left a bad taste in my mouth. One of the few real disappointments among the films I saw in TIFF.

My top 10 films of the year would go something like this (in no particular order):

Get Out
Logan
Lady Bird
Dunkirk
The Florida Project
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
The Shape of Water
Mudbound
A Fantastic Woman
Lady MacBeth
The Lost City of Z
Wonder Woman

Wait, that's more than 10. Ehh, whatev. The ones I haven't yet seen and am super keen on checking out: Call Me By Your Name (does it have a release date??) and The Square. I tried to get tickets to them for TIFF but couldn't make it work.

I'm a bit afraid to check out Killing of the Sacred Deer. I had mixed feelings about The Lobster (I thought the first half was brilliant and the second half didn't work for me at all) and from what I hear, this new one might vibrate entirely outside my preferred frequency.

Call Me By Your Name is definitely on my must-see list. Did you see the controversy last week about Sony trying to market the film in the UK as a romance between Timothée Chalamet's character and his female bestie? That went over about as well as the Hindenburg.