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Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

If you have an opportunity go see it this week in a theater. The 4k restoration is absolutely remarkable from a technical pov

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Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Hoppers (26): Eh. Well-intentioned and sweet, but the overall themes feel too convoluted and more mature than they should. The high joke density is a refreshing change, but it’s just felt too chaotic. I wish it looked a little better. Just needs turned on too many dials. B-

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Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Days of Thunder (90): It’s Top Gun on wheels, but where I found the clichés and cheese enervating on first watch, I was fonder of the whole this watch. It’s still dumb….really dumb. But the Tony Scott backlighting of La Kidman’s natural curls billowing in the wind helped. C+

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Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Let it Be (70): As a documentary about the making of the album, it doesn’t reveal much into the writing or recording process. As a movie about the fab four, who are all fraying each others’ nerves, trying not to explode and still perform expertly…it’s unmissable. B

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Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The Wizard of the Kremlin (26): Cokey filmmaking about an idealist artist being continually broken down by the scourge of boorish, slow boiling fascism. The filmmaking settles in as well as the quiet, clear-eyed malevolence becomes more normalized. Law is terrific as P***n. B

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Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The Mandalorian and Grogu (26): A snooze and the biggest whoop-de-doo I’ve seen in a while. I was impressed by some of the effects work and Grogu still holds the screen better than many live actors. Göransson goes harder than he needed to, but it all just feels like not much of anything. C+

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Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Anthony Mann made a series of big swords and sandals movies in the wake of Ben-Hur’s success snd his success with El Cid three years earlier. Like I said it’s a total bore, but fun pagentry.

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Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The absolutely reprehensible decision in Bohemian Rhapsody to move when Freddie Mercury learns about his diagnosis to right before Live Aid to make it dramatically look like his performance was as memorable and special because of this cataclysmic news. Freddie got his diagnosis 2! YEARS! LATER!!

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Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I believe Greta implicitly, but this is exciting. That needle drop is much needed “Fuck Yeah!”

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NARNIA: THE MAGICIAN’S NEPHEW | Official Trailer | Netflix

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Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The Brit—especially Archers films—are about 1-2 years behind in Oscar eligibility. Blimp comes out in 43 in the states and 45 in the States for Oscars. www.atogt.com/askoscar/dis... My source for all these eligibility questions.

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1981 Academy Award Reminder List of Eligible Releases

Every 1981 film eligible for Academy Award consideration with notation of those that were eventually nominated

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Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The Prestige (06): I get it. I’ve got it 20 years ago. Verisimilitude vs. showmanship at any cost with monomaniacal focus. I get it. It’s an object I watch but feel nothing. Bale, and especially, Jackman are great. Pristine filmmaking especially the production design. I like it…enough. B

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Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Had the respect from the academy and industry at the time. Such a weird year.

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Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It’s a Oscar year I quite like otherwise, but you can just feel the post-WWII squeeze of films and they settled on four big studio player actresses in biopics, family dramas, big budget sexy westerns? Lol. And one wildly deserving Brit. Notorious, Gilda and Postman are all noirs and they just never

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Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

My lineup: Ingrid Bergman “Notorious” Wendy Hiller “I Know Where I’m Going!” Celia Johnson “Brief Encounter” Myrna Loy “The Best Years of Our Lives” Anna Magnani “Rome, Open City” Runners Up: Rita Hayworth in “Gilda” and Lana Turner in “The Postman Always Rings Twice” Favorites? Rankings?

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Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

There’s things to like in them all, particularly Jones’s truly out there gutsiness in ‘Duel,’ but none would be on my list. There are genuinely shocking omissions considering this lineup. Ingrid Bergman in ‘Notorious’ being the chief snub.

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Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

A starry but very dull lineup. Johnson’s romantic longing and monumental heartbreak reads on her gorgeous face and Lean’s romantic masterpiece is better for her presence. The remaining actresses have all been better before or after.

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Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Oscar Best Actress 1946 1. Celia Johnson “Brief Encounter” 2. Jennifer Jones “Duel in the Sun” 3. Olivia de Havilland “To Each His Own” 4. Rosalind Russell “Sister Kenny” 5. Jane Wyman “The Yearling”

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Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

A Few Good Men (92): Chewy, bombastic Sorkin language delivered with verve and star power. Reiner may, at times, tip the scales too much with the lighting and the Shaiman score, but it’s a filling meal. There’s no one like Jack, but Tommy C comes close to handling him. B+

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Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Be your idol Living in your mind now Too late, 'cause you're mine now I will make you free (I will make you free) You're all a part of me …I'ma be your idol

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Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (03): Feels like a relic of an earlier time in blockbusters. The production and action are great throughout and the cast understood the assignment too. Then you remember how oddly paced and too long it is. Kills the buzz. B

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Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So I guess it’s a B+ even though there are elements that run the gamut of the alphabet. The ending and the coda/credit scene really pushed it up a grade or two.

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Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hard to recommend it, bc it’s so increasingly hard to talk about, but I love 2 of Inarritu’s films (Birdman and amores perros), cautiously respect 2 (Biutiful and Bardo) and loathe the other 3 (Babel, Revenant and 21 Grams) so this nestled right into his weird, varied pompous filmmaking.

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Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

tribunal center piece scene, and Riz Ahmed’s lackey with a continually fraying nervous system brought me the most laughs. I think every one else is bad to near career-worst. Just way off the mark. That being said the production design is genuinely awe-inspiring and easily the film’s best element.

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Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That being said, I was taken by the scope and need to go bigger and bigger. Once the major twist happens the film’s meds kick in and I was able to start to enjoy the nuances in performance and moviemaking. Additionally, I think Cruise is pretty great especially in that large,

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Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Digger (26): I have been wrestling with it for days, and I’ll admit, I ended up liking it. I will never love Inarritu’s smug insistence that he’s the lone Jeremiah shouting about the societal ills he thinks no one is noticing. I’ll also never love his own mid-movie meta critique

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Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Agree!! I know I like Whitmore more than most would, but I agree he’s emblematic of an ensemble really firing overall for me. I just don’t have a moment or scene in which Jagger was offering something award worthy at all.

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Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My lineup: Paul Douglas “A Letter To Three Wives” Robert Keith “My Foolish Heart” Edmund O’Brien “White Heat” Ralph Richardson “The Heiress”/“The Fallen Idol” James Whitmore “Battleground” Any other favorite ‘49 supporting actors you’d spotlight? Ranking?

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Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Suffering father in “My Foolish Heart.” He has such a love for his daughter, but he continues to be enervated by her choices—but not enough to stop her either.

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Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Richardson is even better in “The Fallen Idol” and would be my easy winner. Clift is terrific and enigmatic in “The Heiress,” and Paul Douglas’s incredible frankness cuts through the melodrama in “A Letter to Three Wives” with ease. I love Robert Keith as Hayward’s long-

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Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Kennedy similarly solid with lovely flourishes of dueling disappointment and joy really brings together “Champion”’s final third. Ireland is clearly the film’s center protagonist, but he’s eaten alive by Crawford and McCambridge. He’s more of a cypher than he’s supposed to be.

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Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

should have easily won. I know how “important” “12 O’Clock High” was considered, but Jagger is particularly inert. Whitmore is such a solid, fascinating center for the men in “Battleground” to turn around, I’m so glad he got recognized.

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Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oscar Best Supporting Actor 1949 1. Ralph Richardson “The Heiress” 2. James Whitmore “Battleground” 3. Arthur Kennedy “Champion” 4. Dean Jagger “Twelve O’Clock High” 5. John Ireland “All the King’s Men” A great lineup but Richardson’s venom and terror-inducing demeanor

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Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oscar 1964 Best Original Score 1. Mary Poppins 2. The Pink Panther 3. The Fall of the Roman Empire 4. Becket 5. Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte The top three are distinctive and good style throughout. Poppins in mixing its Edwardian styles from more baroque to music hall gets my vote

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Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Great night Saturday. Remembering how to take a good selfie

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Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Primetime (26): Wrestles with a specific moment in media and “fame” and its tentacles to this current media climate. Oppenheim cuts and shoots the film with stylish precision that never overshadows the film. Cast is good especially my MVP Gisondo. Pattinson’s Chris Hansen is deliciously odd. A-

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Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Fuck you Inarritu! You smug asshole! god damnit, I kinda liked it.

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Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ahh 4 more people showed. That I Play Rocky trailer played like gangbusters.

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Drew The CineGiant @cinegiant.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

3 minutes to showtime and I’m the only one in the IMAX theater… Here we go…

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