Tag: there will be spoilers 2015

So I decided to read and remark upon all the awards scripts that are going around in Caty’s excellent post. Which keeps getting longer!! While We’re Young is a script that works perfectly well, but has small sympathetic traction because it’s about artistic New York City white people and what brand of lifestyle will end…

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So I decided to read and remark upon all the awards scripts that are going around in Caty’s excellent post. Which keeps getting longer!! Youth is voluptuous, like one of those five-hour Roman dinners. Everything in it is weirdly marvelous. It’s the most Italian thing I’ve ever read. It is nothing like any script you…

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So I decided to read and remark upon all the awards scripts that are going around in Caty’s excellent post. Which keeps getting longer!! Revenant is a weirdly sci-fi titled Western adventure about the limits of endurance in pursuit of vengeance. It’s a rip-roaring read. The narrative never quits for a minute. This is an…

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So I decided to read and remark upon all the awards scripts that are going around in Caty’s excellent post. Which keeps getting longer!! Room is adapted from a novel by its author, which shows, but that’s not necessarily a dealbreaker. It gets its work done in a novelly unfolding of events and some redundant…

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So I decided to read and remark upon all the awards scripts that are going around in Caty’s excellent post. Which keeps getting longer!! 99 Homes is an incredibly tight little low-budget script about the blackly-beating heart of corporate evil; it is explored in the post-bubble Orlando foreclosure business by the fall and rise and…

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So I decided to read and remark upon all the awards scripts that are going around in Caty’s excellent post. I Smile Back takes a look at the multi-generational toll of substance abuse, up close and personal. Laney is a woman at war with her picture perfect suburban marriage. It’s heartbreaking and hyper-realistic and hopeless….

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So I decided to read and remark upon all the awards scripts that are going around in Caty’s excellent post. Legend takes another look at the brutish Kray brothers, twin thugs, one of them a violent paranoid schitzophrenic, who scaled the heights of gangsterdom in London the the 60s. No new ground is broken in…

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So I decided to read and remark upon all the awards scripts that are going around in Caty’s excellent post. Bridge of Spies is a fantastic example of how to do a period drama. It focuses on one charismatic character with a momentous, specific problem that he is perfectly drawn to be unable to walk…

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So I decided to read and remark upon all the awards scripts that are going around in Caty’s excellent post.  Danny Collins takes a premise that a sell-out millionaire pop star in his 60s can go back and un-sell himself after he receives a letter written to him by John Lennon 40 years ago, which…

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So I decided to read and remark upon all the awards scripts that are going around in Caty’s excellent post. Trumbo is perfect. Project Recommendation: Worship

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