Go ahead, Timothee Chalamet, clear a space on your mantle for your Oscar. After having a near-miss at an Oscar with last year’s Bob Dylan Bio-Pic, A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, Chalamet will finally claim this prize as his portrayal of Marty Mauser - a hustling ping pong player in the 1950’s - is, by far, the Best Lead Actor Performance of the year. If only the movie were that good. Written and Directed in the same un-relenting style as his earlier film, UNCUT GEMS (the one where Adam

(Month 2 of an 18 month retrospective of the films Directed and Written by the Coen Bros.). After the success of their debut film, BLOOD SIMPLE, in 1984, the Coen Brothers wanted to do something completely different with their 2nd film. And with the off-beat comedy, RAISING ARIZONA, they certainly succeeded. Starring 2 young and up-and-coming performers in Nicholas Cage and Holly Hunter (2 future Oscar winners), Raising Arizona tells the screwball comedy tale of a mis-matched

When I heard that Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were reuniting on a police/crime/action thriller I was excited. When I heard that it was going to be a straight-to-streaming Netflix film, I was trepidatious. I was right on both accounts. THE RIP tells the tale of a squad of Miami detectives that stumble across a large amount of drug cartel money. The tension comes into play as the squad divides over whether to turn the money in or keep some (or all) of it for themselves. It’s a

And…the Oscar for Best Acted Film (top to bottom) goes to the Norwegian film SENTIMENTAL VALUE. Written and Directed by Joachim Trier (who is Oscar nominated for both), SENTIMENTAL VALUE tells the tale of a family who’s matriarch passes away forcing the estranged patriarch to come back and to decide with his 2 adult children if they should sell the house that has been in their families’ possession for generations. There is much history in this house and it has it’s imperfect