Best Picture: # 82 Original Release Date: June 26, 2009Rating: RRuntime: 2 hours, 11 minutesDirector: Kathryn BigelowWriter: Mark Boal Quick Impressions:It’s a damp, drizzly November, but the kids have school tomorrow, so we won’t be able to go to sea anytime soon. (I don’t know why I’m making Moby Dick …
Jessica Chastain Age: 44 (but 45 by March 27th) Film: The Eyes of Tammy Faye Role: Tammy Faye Bakker (later Messner), the charismatic wife and partner in puppetry (but apparently not in crime) of rising star televangelist Jim Bakker. Trying to overcome a confusing early childhood that made her feel like an …
Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 2 hours, 6 minutes Director: Michael Showalter Quick Impressions: We saw this movie in the theater! On a Friday night! With other people! Not too many other people, thankfully. That’s one reason I love that theater. It’s usually sparsely populated. Also, they show the movies I’m most …
Runtime: 2 hours, 37 minutes Rating: R Director: Kathryn Bigelow Quick Impressions: I’ve got to say, sitting in a darkened movie theater watching CIA operatives interrogate terrorists while all around me my fellow Americans munch popcorn and slurp drinks is a pretty surreal experience. Even putting aside what Zero Dark Thirty is trying to …
