Foreign-language films are always a toss-up but I generally trust the final five since there's a curated shortlist and one has to have seen all of the shortlist to vote on nominations. Although these days I'm not sure how that is enforced.
I haven't seen
Burning
yet but I've heard great things. The 3-hour running time made me say "Hell no!" to
Never Look Away
until I heard it was by the guy who did
The Lives of Others.
And the cinematography is by Caleb Deschanel who has been nominated before multiple times but never won, so I think that's at play there.
Now hearing Sam Elliot saying "Do you have to use so many cuss words?" in my head, which is cracking me up
Just saw Can You Ever Forgive Me, and it was so great! Among other things, it's so New York.
Spider-Verse fucking killed it at last night's Annie Awards, winning in all seven categories it was nominated. If it doesn't win at the Oscars, something is terribly wrong.
(Also, I'm thrilled for the Netflix show Hilda, which won in all three categories it was nominated).
Spider-Verse fucking killed it at last night's Annie Awards
I need to see that again. And harass my brother for not seeing it yet.
AMC theaters are doing a limited re-release of Black Panther with no admission fee for Black History Month.
I understand that there's going to be an attempt at a(nother) movie of Dune ... we'll see how that goes (if it goes).