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Currently Reading: God, Human, Animal, Machine by Meghan O’Gieblyn 📚

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• For All Mankind, Season 5
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Either I’m getting old or the Oscars are getting better (maybe both?) at picking good movies. Here’s my personal ranking of the best picture nominees:

Oscars are tonight! As always, here’s the 100% correct ranking of this year’s best picture nominees with links to my (300 character or less) reviews:

10.F1
9. Frankenstein
8. Hamnet
7. Bugonia
6. Train Dreams
5. Marty Supreme
4. The Secret Agent
3. Sentimental Value
2. Sinners
1.One Battle After Another

This was a bit of an odd year for the best picture category– there wasn’t a single nominee I didn’t like (though I would have swapped out F1 and Frankenstein for Weapons and Eddington), but there’s a pretty big dropoff between #3 and 4.

Also, if I wasn’t a coward I think I would have put Sentimental Value at #1. But since I just watched it last night and Sinners and One Battle After Another are all-time greats, I’m too chicken to do it. Booooooooo

When forced to choose between who’s going to win tonight between the Christmas Adventurers Club or vampires, all hail St. Nick

Finished in March:

Hacks Season 4: I do appreciate them trying something different in this season. But I appreciate even more the quick pivot when they realized that the fundamental core of the show is not a thing you try differently. 📺

Project Hail Mary: there’s no one–not even Clooney in his prime– that could play this role as well as Gosling. The movie itself was fun– just enough thinking to not be boring, but a touch too funny. Miller/Lord was a great choice to direct, but I’d love to have seen someone with a bit more straightforward...

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Sentimental Value: Woof. Kind of sucks that we don’t get to choose the things we hold dear

Kiki’s Delivery Service: took the kids to see the 4K IMAX re-release. Been years since I’ve seen it– absolutely gorgeous. Jude says Totoro was better, Vale says they’re tied. JiJi a big hit (as expected)

Train Dreams: …so it goes. Life carries on, but it’s a crooked, arduous path. Forwards is not always the way we’d choose, but forwards is always the way we go

Hamnet: I’m going to let my buddy, Stanley Kubrick, review this one for me:

"There are certain areas of feeling and reality--or unreality or innermost yearning, whatever you want to call it--which are notably inaccessible to words. Music can get into these areas. Painting can get into them. Non-verbal forms of expression can. But words are a terrible straitjacket. It's interesting how many prisoners of that straitjacket resent its being loosened or taken off. There's a side to the human personality that somehow senses that wherever the cosmic truth may lie, it doesn't lie in A, B, C, D. It lies somewhere in the mysterious, unknowable aspects of thought and life and experience."

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