Throughout, Ashby’s bemused direction tempers every blunt edge.
Did no one else involved in the making have a few words to spare?
Annie, are you okay?
The brouhaha over The Dark Knight’s eligibility has been settled and found irrelevant.
It looks as though it was created in careless haste, and the print used on this DVD indicates tthat the film has been archived in an even bigger careless haste.
Oliver & Company is as out-of-touch as anything ever made by Disney.
We’re betting that Guillermo del Toro’s Oscar goodwill continues here.
In 1971, Jane Fonda’s Klute makes off with the Oscar, while The Stewardesses make off with the bank. Draw your own conclusions.
A naughty, mind-opening artifact from a more sexually liberated era? Fuck that.
Practical poontang in every way.
Mary Poppins is at the surface level an absolutely impenetrable, pulverizing piece of agit-pap.
It opens with a breathless orgasm of proofs to Murphy’s Law.
Color me slightly underwhelmed.
For now, here’s to blind hope.
Like Nixon said, when Harvey Milk stabs Dan White in the back and all but blackmails George Moscone, it’s not illegal.
There are two ways to spin this category.
For the first time, Slant has decided to tackle nomination predictions in the screenplay categories. Why, you ask?
Call it a showdown between the two wannabes.
The tale told by Ballerina has as little room for failure as the instructors and theater directors it depicts.
It’s a a functional gift to all those people who stood in line, in vain, trying to catch a performance of Mother Courage and Her Children.