Karyn Kusama’s upcoming crime-thriller Destroyer looks extreme. If you’ve seen the director’s 2015 film, The Invitation, that probably comes as no surprise. Per the movie’s synopsis, “LAPD detective Erin Bell (Nicole Kidman), as a young cop, was placed undercover with a gang in the California desert with tragic results. When the leader of that gang re-emerges many years later,…
Gentle readers: Oscar nominations were announced today and if you’re anything like me, you are drowning in Oscar coverage. So here is some more coverage. (You’re welcome.) I’m adapting this blog from an email where I regaled my friends with my very unsolicited, very lengthy opinions about said nominations. And they were like, “OK.” I…
Last night’s Oscars snafu was the ultimate live TV moment in a rather conservative broadcast. In a jaw-dropping fuck-up of epic proportions, the wrong envelope ended up in the hands of Bonnie and Clyde stars Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. Holding the actual envelope for the previously announced Best Actress category, Beatty stalled before passing the envelope…
The 89th annual Academy Awards air Sunday and there is a 100% chance that I’m getting totally Oscar-drunk. (Thinking boxed wine because I’m obviously all class.) To celebrate this year’s fanciest of events, TLW is counting down the worst of the best (pictures), commiserating on the amount of time I actually spent watching these horrid…
Two more Best Pictures are in the can—Patton (1970) and A Man for All Seasons (1966). And I have just one film left in my quest to watch all #DemBestPictureWinners. I had just got done backpedaling on my initial feels re: war films (that I’m completely over them) with my post about Wings—an adorable, well-paced…
There are no faces I’d rather stare at for two hours than Emma Stone’s and Ryan Gosling’s. In La La Land, the two beauts play a couple of dreamers who start off on the wrong foot, yet fall in love all while trying to pursue their dreams. (You can almost “yada yada yada” the plot when explaining…
One would think that a story about a dead father and the uncle who takes guardianship over his teenage son would be a real downer. And while it certainly has its moments of incredible pathos that is oh-so beautifully executed, Manchester By the Sea is hardly a one trick pony. It’s surprisingly loaded with subtle…
There’s nothing more eye-roll-inducing than critics deeming a movie “a rollercoaster ride”; a phrase clearly intended to make a commercial or film poster or something. But in the case of Room, I feel like I have to go against one of my biggest critical pet peeves and say that the movie starring Brie Larson as…
The Academy released their official nominations for the 2015 Oscars this morning for what will be their 87th ceremony, airing February 22nd on ABC. If you want a full list of who’s in line to maybe grab some gold, click here. Rather than go down the list and commenting like every other asshole on the…
Holy hell, the Oscars came up fast! This Sunday, March 2, the 86th annual Academy Awards will air on ABC and you know the deal – red carpet at 7, ceremony at 8, yada yada yada. Semi-funny-woman Ellen DeGenerous will host (who is likable, but oftentimes, safe). Winners will be declared, and losers will get…