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I stated, before I began my Oscar picks, that I still had a couple of Report Cards to attend to. This is one of them. It went under everyo...

When I did my Report Card on "Birdman", I did not reveal the story hole at the end of the film, because of a potential "spoil...

Okay. Best Picture. · “American Sniper”---A warmed over version of "The Hurt Locker". Didn't like that either. · “Birdma...

Best Director: In general, one never knows what the director's true contribution is to a film, unless he also wrote it. Bearing that ...

Continuing: Best Actor Steve Carell - Foxcatcher---A prosthetic nose and whispering does not a performance make. Bradley Cooper - Ame...

Once again, this is not a reflection of who I think will win. It reflects who I would vote for, having Seen most of the nominated films and...

This will only be half-a-Report Card, as my wife and I were only able to make it through the first hour of this movie. At the precise momen...

"Nightcrawler" is an extremely riveting, thoroughly entertaining movie. It is about "newsgatherers": the guys who follo...

I am barreling through the rest of the Oscar related films this week, because Oscar night is next Sunday, and I want to leave time to do ...

"Wild" reminded me a little of a very interesting film from the late 60s, "The Swimmer", which starred Burt Lancaster. ...

"Foxcatcher" is based on the true, creepy story of one of the Dupont heirs killing a member of his wrestling team. It made all th...

"Boyhood"'s gimmick of taking a dozen years to shoot it, with the same actors, all aging a dozen years, is just that: a gimmi...

I saw the stage version of "Into The Woods" twice. Once in New York, where Bernadette Peters starred as the Witch. And, in Los A...

"Still Alice" is about a woman facing the onset of early Alzheimer's disease. This is not light fare. But it is absorbing, ...

"Whiplash" depicts the passion to make wonderful music. In this case, jazz, on the highest level. "Whiplash" displays ...

Dick Cavett appeared on Chris Matthews' show last night on MSNBC. You know. Chris Matthews. The idiot. Cavett was there to plug ...

"American Sniper" is another version of "The Hurt Locker", which, if you might recall, I hated. I didn't hate ...

Okay. Here's an opportunity for Roger Goodell to redeem himself. Bill Belichick obviously cheated the Indianapolis Colts by deflating ...

"The Grand Hotel Budapest" is, in fact, grand. It is, to quote Forrest Gump, a box of chocolates. A box of Godiva Chocolates. T...

"The Fault In Our Stars" is about two young cancer patients who fall in love as life is slipping away. Sounds like pretty depress...