I have watched all the films nominated for Best Picture for 2015*, and I have my write-in ballot ready to be counted (by imaginary movie gremlins and their pals, the print scratchers).

( And the Winner Is... )

I was not eager to see this film and that is why I saved it for last. I don't like abuse and brutality toward anyone or anything, and particularly not women. (However, Mad Max: Fury Road did not bother me because that is well-deserved cartoon violence. We all get to have some contradictions.) The first 20 minutes of the film confirmed my distaste ( Read more... )

Last year, The Hollywood Reporter posted nine exit polls, so to speak, from nine members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts, and Sciences on what and whom they voted for and why. This year, the exit polls are back and the members are just as onery and frank as last year. However, I have to say that this year, the ones that I have read so far ( Read more... )

The Revenant is based on a novel by Michael Punke also titled The Revenant. Unlike The Martian, Punke's novel was commercially published not self-published.


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Spotlight is a movie about the consequences of the actions by the Catholic Church in Boston to allow the pedophile priest Geoghan to practice his sexual perversions on vulnerable Catholic children for 34 years before he was finally apprehended and prosecuted by the civil authorities in Boston. Church members and even other priests would report him ( Read more... )

In the beginning, there was some hairy white guy in a canyon, muttering to himself and meditating on the voices in his head. And why wouldn't he be seeking solace in the belly of the canyon (does this canyon look like the inside of a person's colon to you too?). The voices in his head are ranting about oil and Oil and OIL and then there is a ( Read more... )