Best Big Hollywood Movie This Season - Her

Hollywood has been spewing out its biggies for the last month or so.  Her is the best of the lot.  Joaquin Phoenix is astounding is this very demanding role, falling in love with his computer's operating system.  I was totally engaged with this move.  Hmm.  4 stars!

Oscar Nominations - OMG!!!

Blue is the Warmest Color and The Past don't get nominated for Best Foreign Language film.  Actually, I just read that The Past didn't qualify in this category because it was first shown after the deadline.  So, why on  earth was it not nominated for Best Picture?  And what about the amazing performance by Adele Exarchopoulos in Blue is the Warmest Color?  And Inequality for All and Muscle Shoals are bypassed for Best Documentary.  These oversights will certainly make the Oscars a lot less interesting for me.

The Past and The Wolf of Wall Street

The Past is a real life and fully engaging movie.  It centers around a woman, her husband, who she wants to divorce, and the man she wants to marry.  I quote now from my good friend, Brooks Roddan:  " I  can't remember seeing a movie in which all the characters were  so admirable in such a human way; I cared for each of them.  Or a movie in which conscience, the thing that separates us from other animals, was so deftly portrayed that it became a character."  We saw the movie together.  Now The Wolf of Wall Street is a Hollywood big glamor movie, like American Hustle, but not as good.  It's about greed and excess to the max and ultimately gets boring.  Now tell me, which of these 2 movies would you rather see?