Well, another mostly slow weekend here in the 'Boro. Things will start to get exciting (elsewhere) in the coming weeks when Julia starts having interviews and we go to the Book Festival. Other than that...
Screen Actors Guild Awards tonight - really, the only film awards outside of the Oscars that has any relevance (and insight into the Oscars...).
My picks:
Film
Best Ensemble: Silver Linings Playbook
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Best Actress: Naomi Watts, The Impossible
Best Supporting Actor: Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
TV
Drama Ensemble: Downton Abbey
Comedy Ensemble: Modern Family
Actor, Drama: Damian Lewis, Homeland
Actress, Drama: Claire Danes, Homeland
Actor, Comedy: Louis C.K., Louie
Actress, Comedy: Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation
Actor, Movie or Miniseries: Kevin Costner, Hatfields &McCoys
Actress, Movie or Miniseries: Julianne Moore, Game Change
Wow, I've picked out two duds in a row when it comes to movies. Last night, Julia and I watched the 2012 film Peace, Love & Misunderstanding, a Bruce Beresford-directed misfire about an uptight lawyer (Catherine Keener, who deserves better) hauling her daughter (Elizabeth Olsen, ditto) and son (Nat Wolff) upstate to Woodstock to stay with her hippy, drippy-sounding mother, played by Jane Fonda, who does what she can with a thoroughly obnoxious character. Not much of any interest happens, but the movie dug itself a huge hole in the first two or three minutes when Keener decides to take the kids up to see Fonda, who she hasn't seen in twenty years. The movie never explains this action, gives no impetus behind it, and since it's clear that whatever conflict exists between the mom and daughter hasn't been resolved, we're literally bewildered and bothered by Keener's decision and, really, the whole set-up, so, with 90 minutes to go, the movie has a lot of making up and explaining to do.
Which it doesn't.
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