Rating: R Runtime: 2 hours, 18 minutes Director: Adam McKay Quick Impressions: We do have Netflix, but we couldn’t wait until December 24th to watch Don’t Look Up. My husband has been dying to see it since the first trailer. He’s been recommending it to everyone (before we had even …
Best Picture: #58Original Release Date: December 20, 1985Rating: PGRuntime: 2 hours, 41 minutesDirector: Sydney Pollack Quick Impressions:Autobiographical writing is difficult to do well. I remember once having a conversation with my daughter in the park about which is true, fiction or non-fiction. I told her, “It really depends. Non-fiction can …
Best Picture: #52Original Release Date: December 17, 1979Rating: PGRuntime: 1 hour, 45 minutesDirector: Robert Benton Quick Impressions:Kramer vs. Kramer has haunted me my whole life—not in the sense that I’ve seen it and found it moving. It was simply Best Picture the year that I was born. (At least, in …
Best Picture #: 51Original Release Date: December 8, 1978Rating: RRuntime: 3 hours, 3 minutesDirector: Michael Cimino Quick Impressions:For the sake of completion, we did watch Annie Hall, and I wrote up my thoughts. But Woody Allen is getting enough press right now. The thought of posting something about him at …
Amy Adams Age: 39 Film: American Hustle Role: Sydney Prosser, an American woman who has clawed her way up from an undesirable life using her wits and her sexuality (when necessary) for survival. After falling in love with two-bit con-artist (and married man) Irving Rosenfeld, Sydney helps him con the desperate …
Runtime: 1 hour, 59 minutes Rating: R Director: John Wells Quick Impressions: Some people might find watching August: Osage County a disturbing experience, but for me it was reassuring. For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been stressing out trying to decide whom I’d rather see win Best Supporting Actress, Jennifer Lawrence …
