I finally saw The Shape of Water. It was delightful. I loved all the detailed visual elements. It's probably a movie that would reward rewatching, although I don't know that I'll do so in the theater.

I've been avoiding seeing the shape of water because I'm afraid the villain is going to make me so upset it's going to overshadow everything else in the movie for me. Is he truly sickeningly awful? Is there a happy ending despite him? I want Happy Endings dammit. When I want real life I watch the news.

Zenkitty,

The villian is truly awful, but he also thinks he's the good guy.

The ending is mostly happy if you truly want to know.

Zenkitty, I was wondering the same thing.

Cinemark's CEO contributed roughly $10k in support of Proposition 8 in California, so it'll be a cold day in Hell before that company sees a penny of my money even if the movie club becomes applicable to my local theaters

Also a Roy Moore supporter.

The people I know who have moviepass love it. Maybe getting it encourage us to see more movies?

Sophia, I also love PCCH and Linda Holmes!

I just listened to the Fresh Air interview with PT Anderson, and unless I missed it, neither of them ever said Vicky Krieps's name! Even after he said Alma is the protagonist of the movie. Uggghhhh.

unless I missed it, neither of them ever said Vicky Krieps's name!

Ugh, that is not right. She is an amazing find, and I'm slightly miffed she is being ignored while Daniel Day Lewis and Leslie Manville got their Oscar noms. She holds her own against them every step of the way.

The only movie with major Oscar noms I hadn't seen yet was I, Tonya so I remedied that earlier this week. I found it entertaining but perhaps a bit too breezy for its subject matter? Its glibness is both a feature and a bug, I think. It reminded me a lot of The Big Short from a couple of years ago, both in tone and in format (specifically the fourth wall-breaking). The performances are very fine, especially Margot Robbie in the title role, despite her being such a physical mismatch for Harding. Allison Janey has a showy role as her mother, and while she (and her parrot) is an amazing scene-stealer, I don't think it's as layered and complex as Laurie Metcalf's performance in Lady Bird -- so my hope is that Metcalf would take it come Oscar time, even though I flove Allison Janey in general.

Okay, so there are all these prestige Oscars-y movies all over your multiplex right now, right? But forget about all that. If you're gonna go see anything in theater this weekend, GO SEE PADDINGTON 2. Doesn't matter if you haven't seen the first Paddington movie (it's on Netflix and is perfectly charming). But this second movie is on another level. It is a hilarious and heartwarming delight, and is honestly fucking magical in some of its visual imagination. There is a sequence involving a pop-up book that was so lovely, it made me well up and took my breath away. The characters, especially the damn bear, will give you ALL the feelings. I cried, like, 3 times. Hugh Grant is in it hamming it up as the villain and I haven't seen him having so much fun since the first Bridget Jones movie. If you have kids, take the kids. If you don't, go anyway, with friends or by yourself or whatever. It will make you feel better about the state of the world.

I'd intended to see The Post today, but a migraine coma derailed my afternoon moviegoing and I feel way too groggy and dizzy to go to an evening show now. Maybe tomorrow afternoon.

I'd also vaguely like to see Darkest Hour, but not enough to see a 2-hour spinach movie that starts at 9:40 pm.

I agree entirely with Vonnie about I, Tonya.

I have been hearing amazing things about Paddington 2.

I suspect it will suffer the same fate as Babe 2: Pig in the City (also an unexpectedly great sequel that didn't find its audience).