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I'm watching it on DVR as I type this. I'm about halfway through it. It's such an odd movie, having many of the beats of the original, but trying not to be a simple copy of it. The substitutions are odd, but don't have the energy of the original. I can certainly understand why McBride replaced the c...

And if we had to include two of the Academy's nominees?

Picture: Unforgiven, which becomes the front-runner
Actor: Eastwood. Now he would probably win
Actress: McDonnell, the only other one I've seen. No difference
S. Actor: Davidson, no change
S. Actress: no change

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Flying Devils (1933)

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Moonraker

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Now it's time for 1992. Here are the Academy's choices: ACTOR Robert Downey Jr. – Chaplin Clint Eastwood – Unforgiven Al Pacino – Scent of a Woman Stephen Rea – The Crying Game Denzel Washington – Malcolm X ACTRESS Catherine Deneuve – Indochine Mary McDonnell – Passion Fish Michelle Pfeiffer – Love ...

The Keys of the Kingdom?

Last week I saw three movies. What can you say about The Cheat ? What can you say about a movie about a woman who embezzles money from her charity, blows it all, and then makes a deal with Sessue Hayakawa, who goes all yellow peril when he seeks to collect the debt? That it shows Cecil B. DeMille's ...

Kidnapped?
Anthony Adverse?

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Little Lord Fauntleroy?

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I've seen at least 50 movies from 1994. Here are my favorites: 1. Pulp Fiction 2. Death and the Maiden 3. Speed 4. Chungking Express 5. Satantango 6. The Puppet Masters 7. Vive L’Amour 8. Through the Olive Trees 9. Little Women 10. Ed Wood 11. Clerks 12. Ashes of Time 13. Wild Reeds 14. That’s Enter...

Now it's 1967. The Academy abolishes separate categories for black and white and color cinematography. Here are their choices: Bonnie and Clyde Camelot Doctor Dolittle The Graduate In Cold Blood And here are mine: Marketa Lazarova The Red and the White Weekend The Young Girls of Rochefort Playtime T...

One would think that people would talk about the greatest murders on film? But what about the greatest suicides? Here are three to start with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g5Cad6qW6k Cache https://www.renovationkingdom.com.au/media/wysiwyg/blog/The_Godfather_Part_II_bath.jpg The Godfather, Part ...

And if we had to include at least two of the Academy's choices? Picture: no change Actor: no change Actress: no change Supporting Actor: Jones, but no changes Supporting Actress: Ruehl, Lewis. The academy chose Ruehl in real life, and probably would here, though both suffer from not getting any othe...