Runtime: 1 hour, 55 minutes Rating: R Director: Alex Garland Quick Impressions: Normally when a movie opens in February, a little flow chart kicks into gear in my mind. I ask 1) Is this movie for children? 2) Is it starring Drew Barrymore? 3) Is it related to Valentine’s Day, …
Darkest Hour Nominated Producer(s): Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten, Douglas Urbanski Director: Joe WrightWriter: Anthony McCarten Cast: Gary Oldman, Lily James, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Mendelsohn, Ronald Pickup, Stephen Dillane, Nicholas Jones, Richard Lumsden, Samuel West, David Schofield, Malcolm Storry, David Strathairn and others. Plot:In May of …
Rating: PGRuntime: 1 hour, 29 minutes Director: Nick Park Quick Impressions:My entire family is dying to see Black Panther, but we’re waiting until our fifteen-year-old can join us next weekend. Meanwhile, we’re also huge fans of Aardman. The Curse of the Were-Rabbit remains the best surprise we ever received at …
Call Me By Your Name Nominated Producer(s): Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges, Marco, Morabito Director: Luca Guadagnino Writer: James Ivory Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel, and others. Plot: Italy, 1983, seventeen-year-old Elio falls in love for the first time with Oliver, the twenty-four-year-old grad …
Runtime: 2 hours, 20 minutes Rating: R Director: Aaron Sorkin Quick Impressions: So that’s what you’ve got to do to get a book deal these days! Survive a series of spinal surgeries, become an Olympic class skier, endure a freak injury as the world watches, steal control of a high-stakes, …
Willem DafoeAge: 62Film: The Florida ProjectRole: Bobby, the compassionate and reliable manager of the Magic Castle, a budget motel near Disney World where a number of impoverished Floridians live as semi-permanent guests, including six-year-old Moonee and Halley, her self-sabotaging, dysfunctional mother. Nomination History:Previously nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Platoon …
Mary J. BligeAge: 47Film: MudboundRole: Florence Jackson, devoted wife of an upwardly mobile sharecropper on the muddiest farm in Mississippi, sometime domestic employee to the desperate wife of the farm’s ignoble owner, and mother to Ronsel who survives World War II to face horrors at home he never imagined. Nomination …
Rating: PG-13Runtime: 1 hour, 39 minutesDirector: Michael and Peter Spierig Quick Impressions:We considered seeing one of the nominees for Best Foreign Language Film this Thursday night, but my husband suggested, “Maybe we should start watching this year’s movies.” “I agree,” I chimed in enthusiastically. “I think we should see Helen …
Timothée ChalametAge: 22Film: Call Me By Your NameRole: Elio, the teen son of academics living on a villa in Italy in the early 1980s who is continually surprised and transformed as he falls in love for the first time with Oliver, his father’s American grad student research assistant for the …
Runtime: 2 hours, 5 minutesRating: PG-13Director: Joe Wright Quick Impressions:After the movie, I said to my husband, “I think Joe Wright made the right decision not to cast Keira Knightley as Winston Churchill.” That went over like a lead balloon, but it seemed so funny to me. I have a …
