If 2004’s Catwoman expressed anything, it was the empowerment Halle Berry felt after winning her historic Oscar three years prior.
With all due respect to the gentlemen in contention, this year’s likely Supporting Actor crop has shaped up to be a snooze.
In comparison with movies like the recent Taken 2, Argo is more about suspense than it is about action.
Was it fate that John Hurt provided the narration for Ben Whishaw’s 2006 breakout, Perfume?
At this stage, the alternately thrilling and unwieldy three-hour epic is the season’s closest thing to a wild card.
Most filmgoers who see Lee’s magical-realist marine life, from bioluminescent jellyfish to migrating trout that fly, will be quick to dub the film the Visual Effects frontrunner.
Conventional wisdom says this film would surely have the sound categories in the bag.
Phoned-in portent and feigned profundity form the basis of each of the seven interlocking narratives that comprise Cloud Atlas.