For Your Consideration rounds-up and reviews new films that may hold Oscar contention.
From the moment Unbroken’s opening sequence soars onto the screen, you can feel the audience in rapt attention. It’s World War II, and an American bomber is on a mission over the Pacific Ocean, coming […]
I watched Into the Woods with my wife, who is not a Sondheim fan, and had never seen the musical or known much about it, but she is a lover of fairy tales, so she is […]
By WADE SHEELER When you enter the waters of a P.T. Anderson film, you have a set of preconceived notions. When you wade into the even murkier depths of Thomas Pynchon, you really better be […]
During Alejandro González Iñárritu’s film Birdman (or the Unexpected Virture of Ignorance), Riggan Thomson (Michael Keaton) confronts actor Mike Shriner (Edward Norton) following a disastrous performance of “What We Talk About When We Talk About […]
In 2001, a gripping drama, called Enigma, directed by Michael Apted, co-scripted by none other than Tom Stoppard and starring Dougray Scott and Kate Winslett told the WWII story of the Enigma decoder, an ingenious […]
The Academy smiles on actors that transform themselves to become real-life, albeit unattractive, people. Robert DeNiro won best actor when he got in fighting shape, thern destroyed his physique and gained over 50 pounds to […]
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