The basu! Guide to the Movies

Who Will Win (Who Should Win) Pic: CODA (CODA) Dir: Jane Campion (Jane) Actor: The Fresh Prince (Big Will) Actress: Tammy Faye (J-Chas!) Supp Actor: CODA (Troy!) Supp Actress: Ariana DeBose (Jessie / Aunjanue)) Orig Screenplay: PTA (Kenny) Adap Screenplay: CODA (Maggie) Foreign: Drive My Car (Murakami) Doc: Summer of Soul (Attica / Ascension) Toon: Disney (Pixar) Song: Bond, er, Billie (Billie) Costume: Cruella (Spielberg) Makeup: Tammy Faye (Tammy) Toon Short: Aardman! (Aardman!) Live Short: Riz MC (🤷‍♀️) Doc Short: Shaq (🤷‍♀️) VFX: Dune (Spidey) Prod Design: Dune (GdT) DP: Dune (Coen Bro) Edit: Dune (Adam McKay) Score: Dune (Almodovar) Sound: Dune (Dune) #Oscars

Best ScarJo v Disney: Black Widow Best Simu Liu v Bus: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Best Dad Movie: The Tender Bar Most LA Wish Fulfillment Fantasy: The Mitchells vs. the Machines Best Nerd Fulfillment Ahem Fantasy: Free Guy Best Corporate, er, I Mean Fan, Service: Ghostbusters: Afterlife Best Young Neeson: Without Remorse Best Shyamalan-Meets-Neeson: Sweet Girl Very Good Neeson: Nobody Good Neeson: Cry Macho Neeson Neeson: The Marksman #Top10Movies #movies

#TheBatman Best (Non-#BTAS/#Nolan/#TimBurton) #Batman, Ever! Also, Longest Batman, Ever! Chris Nolan gave #TheLongHalloween the #MichaelMann remix, and Reeves follows in his *massively*-large footsteps giving #BatmanDarkVictory the #DavidFincher remix.  And boy, does Reeves direct the holy h*ll out of this movie. Try not to think too long and hard about tiny details like plot, motivation, character, detective work, human behaviour, strategy, narrative momentum, etc., instead marvel at the IMAX-sized ambition in full display here, filled with one awesome shot after another. As for what exactly those discrete shots add up to…uh, look I'll leave that up to far smarter minds than myself to unpack. Speaking of unpacking, what was the budget line item for rain machines?! I haven't seen this much nighttime neon rain since #BladeRunner! The big names in the ensemble have a *ton* of fun: Farrell(TBH's favourite, because, of course he is🙄), Wright(TBH: "But, what does it mean?!...

#TheMaster by #ChristopherClarey The Long Run and Beautiful Game of #RogerFederer Look, TBH is the literary one in the family. Me? I definitely need to read more and not rot my brain binge-streaming whatever the algorithm places in front of me. But this book, now hear me out, this is… The Best (#Federer )Book, Ever! Like the Maestro himself, it's elegant, efficient, lovely to behold, and you only get a hint of *all* the decades and thousands of miles of hard yards undergirding the whole thing.  The gang's *all* here: #Nadal, #Djokovic, #AndyMurray, Stanimal, the French Golden Generation, Berdych, DelPo, #PeteSampras, #Agassi, #Edberg, Becker, Ivanisevic even, hints of #Bjorg and #McEnroe and Connors, even Rosewall and #RodLaver and Roche, but boy did I love that #MaratSafin-appreciation chapter, made me fall in love with that crazy guy all over again. But, dude, as if we needed any help in reminding us how awesome #AndyRoddick was. Seriously, that might be the sneakily positive...