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Mister Tee wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 4:46 pm WORST FILM OF 2023: 80 for Brady

This is a dumb vote. That movie aims pretty low but it accomplishes exactly what it sets out to do.

May December has some particularly barbed attacks on actors, so I understand SAG not responding positively to this. I do think Melton probably still has a shot, but I wouldn't put money on it.

BEST MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA Oppenheimer BEST MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL or COMEDY Barbie BEST ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer BEST ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA Sandra Huller, Anatomy of a Fall BEST ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL or COMEDY Paul Giamatti, The Ho...

All I can think of is a lot of people didn't like Richard Jewell (I think that movie has problems but is also misunderstood) and maybe they got tired of her spending the better part of a decade in increasingly-unwatchable Ryan Murphy shows.

Tár had a credited score even if most of the music in the film was not original, but Maestro has none. The music credit reads "Music by Leonard Bernstein" which it is. All songs and orchestral pieces were either written or performed by Bernstein or both. There is no original music in the ...

Because the Sound branch has been the most antediluvian, I didn't trust them to include Maestro despite its clear quality (they passed on TAR last year). Tár had a credited score even if most of the music in the film was not original, but Maestro has none. The music credit reads "Music by Leon...

I don't know where Are You There God... sits for me (haven't tried ranking films for the year, haven't seen a ton either), but I liked it a lot and think it's a really inspired pick. It's also a type of movie that isn't getting made a ton anymore, especially for theatrical platforms, although I wish...

The Color Purple is one of the few Spielberg movies that I think he might have made better if he had made it twenty or so years later. I've never bought the idea (which you thankfully also don't hear a ton anymore) that Spielberg was a man-child who only became a "mature" filmmaker around...

When the songs were licensed, they were licensed for the broadcast and syndication only. This was the typical practice at the time because the concept of streaming and full-series video releases didn't exist at the time. When it was released on DVD, the distributor licensed all of the music, but it ...

It's not a coincidence that Homicide was cancelled one season after Braugher left. You could argue that Braugher's Frank Pembleton was in many ways a secondary lead to Kyle Secor's Tim Bayliss. The show definitely started out that way, although Braugher's role got bigger as it became clear that he h...

I saw excerpts from the most recent Republican Presidential debate on YouTube. These debates don't need moderators; they need kindergarten teachers. I was in Tuscaloosa for a conference Tuesday and Wednesday, and when I say that debate inconvenienced every person in that town, I mean it. It was hel...

As someone who both goes to bed and gets up early, I endorse this change.

One of the all-time pieces of shit. Behind the Bastards did a very good series on him a couple of years ago.

We’re off-topic but the farther out I get from 2019, increasingly my favorite of the nominees is DiCaprio for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, the one time he would be my choice. I agree with this. Once Upon a Time in Hollywod has become a real comfort food watch for me and I don't think DiCaprio has...

Independent of politics, she was one of the most decent people ever to live in the White House.