Holy ****. I didn’t even notice that.

a star is born is a best picture nominee.

How can spike lee the most overated director get a nomination for blackklansman that pretty much anyone could have done at worse on par with him and not nominate into the spiderverse for this award.
I d argue aswell that best movie should include animation.

Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened.
Incredible story of the cluster**** that was the Fyre music festival.
Con man Billy McFarland managed to swindle millions of dollars out of a bunch of rich millenials and gullible 'influencers', promising a star studded musical experience that turned into an absolute ****-show.
This documentary illustrates the impact that social media can have on modern society and how easy it is to influence people with little more than a promo video and a few empty promises.
Well worth watching.

just saw bohemian rhapsody and while malek did a great job as freddie and the music is obv great, it's just a super cookie cutter biopic that has nothing unique or original about it.

I just don't understand for the life of me how it got a best pic nom and first man didn't.

is it cuz the academy wants to be super progressive and can't possibly reward a movie about a straight white male over a gay minority?

first man was far superior in every way to green book and bohemian rhapsody and while I haven't seen black panther yet I would guess it was probably more deserving of a best picture nom than that as well.

I bet even michael bay couldnt have done a worse bohemian rhapsody

Nice to see Free Solo get a nom. Easily best doc of the year even though it won’t win.

Yea if they gave it to BP against that competition I would just shrug.

The woke take on Green Book is that its treatment of race is super problematic, similar to trash like Crash that makes white racists feel good about themselves. (Again, haven't seen yet.)

Look into how much they changed from the true story; it's ridiculous. They heavily fictionalized in order to make a MORE cookie cutter musical biopic.

As a former climber this movie was great. The biggest thing I didn't like was the drama with his gf. I could have done without that.

As a non-climber that relationship fascinated me. Honnold is clearly a genius in his own right and just thinks about the world in a bizarre way. It was cool seeing this mesh w/ a normal human. Plus it’s easy to relate to her anxiety since you’re feeling a portion of it just watching.

I know we’ve covered this, but I just saw this in IMAX and it’s one of my fave theatre experiences. It’s just so insane what he’s doing, but I did not expect to feel so much emotion about it all.

Totally agree. It’s not only my best doc of the year. It’s my best picture. I saw it three times on imax.

Like Free Solo but thought Shirkers a shoo-in for best doc.

The Endless Two brothers still receiving cult deprogramming decide to go back and visit their old cult when one of them finds a cassette tape of one of the members of said cult. Hilarity ensues

gonna spoiler this



Has a B movie feel to it and a lot of eye rolling moments but I kinda liked it. The brother angle was unnecessary.

It Happened One Night should be almost required for any sort of Rom-Com study, and if we're going chronologically I'd also consider starting with Trouble in Paradise or at least mentioning it. Both are pre-code, and I think students would find the films surprisingly accessible.

I went back and forth with It Happened One Night, but I can do more with Bringing Up Baby. I love Trouble in Paradise, but I wanted to avoid pre-code films. Hays Code was written in 1930 but not really enforced until 1934, so It Happened One Night was much more regulated by the Code than Lubitsch's film. I particularly like Miracle at Morgan's Creek for the ways it toys with the Code.

It does, doesn't it? Wasn't Toy Story 3 a BP nominee?

Nicolas Cage is set to star in an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft‘s celebrated horror story Color Out of Space, with Hardware and Dust Devil helmer Richard Stanley directing — his first feature in twenty year. By the producers of Mandy.

I mean, I don't know which to be more excited about...Cage in Lovecraft's most famous story, or Stanley coming back from wherever the hell he's been to put his demented spin on it...

Force-of-nature Betty Hutton's best movie.

Damn straight. Could cut a handful of films from BP, but Black Panther could be swapped if they wanted to go Comic for Comic. Never got the over-the-top hype for it. Enjoyed it, but it seemed like a pretty paint by numbers Marvel movie to me.

Spider Man: ItSV was much better by comparison.

Haven't seen this one, but I did watch Fyre Fraud on Hulu and enjoyed it quite a bit. One thing to point out is that the Doc you mentioned was produced by the company that was responsible for a lot of the social media promotion of Fyre, so I wouldn't be shocked if their doc really minimized their responsibility.

Fyre Fraud also involved a sit down interview with Billy which is great.

^^^ Mixed reviews online about the two Fyre docs. Having an interview with McFarland doesn't seem to bring any more to the table than using the extensive, behind the scenes footage, that Netflix went with.
I don't have Hulu so probably won't watch Fyre Fraud but I doubt it would tell me much more or less than Fyre.
The Netflix doc sure did have some jaw-dropping moments tho'.

I found that doc absolutely fascinating.


You're seriously going to throw shade at Netflix without even mentioning that Hulu allegedly paid the head fraudster himself a quarter of a million dollars to participate in theirs?

Gee, I wonder why? So you think it's great that they paid the orchestrator of this massive fraud $250k for a sit-down interview, but you have a problem with Netflix working with the company that did some of the social media promotion? Okaaaayyy.

Watched Fyre last night. Interesting. What a sociopath.

I'm apparently completely obvlivious to the interweb world. Never heard the term "influencers" before. Geez, we are sheeple.

Very interesting. After I wrote my post I actually wondered if non climbers would like that part for the very reason you stated.

I honestly think this is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, sports achievements ever. It is beyond crazy how difficult this was on every level. It really is mind blowing.

I hope it wins a major award. The production and filming of him climbing takes so much prep, commitment, and risk. It’s just crazy.

i enjoyed both of them and they both brought something different to the table. The Hulu doc focuses more on the marketing (Jerry Media) / overall background of Billy McFarland while the Netflix doc has more footage of what actually went on in with the island/production side. They're both good and worth watching IMO.

The Dead Zone (John Carpenter, based on the Stephen King book) - This was great. King has a reputation for sloppy endings, but this is tight (don't know if it's the same as book though).

Guy (Walken) develops the ability to psychically see deaths when he touches people (their deaths or others close to them). This follows along to a logical conclusion.

Opening scene is Walken reading "The Raven" and it sounds like hilarious self-parody with his stilted delivery. "Quote, the raven..."

I'm always thrilled when movies cut to the chase rather than meandering around with "refusal of the call" **** or false starts. In this case, once we know what the chase is, it gets right to it.

Has some relevance to modern political times.