alicublog

The Oscars should be about the simple joys of life -- gambling and vanity -- and not about politics, but I see Charlie Pierce has people ex...

I should add a review of The Imitation Game to my other on to Oscar posts, but it's almost magic time, dammit, so, quickly: We ha...

At first I thought, "O God no Joanna Newsom is trying to sneak back get the spray-bottle" but this song is kind of sticking wi...

(See previous reviews of American Sniper , Birdman , Boyhood , and The Grand Budapest Hotel .) The Theory of Everything. As I've said ...

(See previous reviews of American Sniper , Birdman , and The Grand Budapest Hotel .) Boyhood . A boy grows up in suburban Texas. And that...

American Sniper . As I suspected , the political obsessives were watching, through their Zhdanovite lenses, a very different movie than the ...

Birdman . At first I wondered why Iñárritu was sticking all that magic realism into a perfectly good New York backstage drama. It made me su...

The nominations are out, and spurred by some vestigial urge from my showbiz days I'm working on seeing the big ones and reporting back h...