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

#Jockey Wonderful, just bl**dy wonderful! *Exactly* the kind of little gem that makes you believe in cinema amidst all of this doom and streaming gloom. Artfully directed by kid Bentley, the kid *really* has the goods; better enjoy him now before *every* CU comes calling. I have no idea what the budget was on this, but however small it was, the entire crew just made the holy h*ll outta it! *Tremendous* handheld, rhythmic DP-ing, *this* is how you do digital cinematography - with texture, light, and most importantly, soul. Wonderful, lived-in production design, beautiful, subtle sound design, and a fantastic score from TBH's favourite #TheNational, er, I mean, the Dessner Bros. They should all just form their own repertory company and make every movie together from here on out! An ensemble is key for films like this, for max verisimilitude, and the one here definitely rises to the occasion, highlighted by Cormier, the always-great Parker, and the surprise Arias, where did they find

#SpiderManNoWayHome Best (Non-#SamRaimi Live-Action)#Spiderman, Ever! Absolutely, *terrific*, #SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse live-action "remake" fun! The gang's (almost)all here: brooding Haden Church, cynical Ifans, fun Foxx, the great, tragic Molina, and, of course, the one, the only Dafoe. The movie just *crackles* to life when he's on screen… dang! Gotta bring him back for some more of these meta-multiverse adventures…wait meta multiverse, so… metave… nah, not going *there*😬! And give it up for the central troika of Holland, Zendaya, and Batalon, imagine the weight of an *entire* industry resting on their young, winning-chemistry shoulders😲! Well done kids! But, man, Standing O to Series MVP Tomei, the emotional heart at the center of it all👏! Speaking of the multiverse(s🤷‍♀️?), how many are there really: #Marvel-CU, Sony-CU, Netflix-CU, Disney+-CU… any other corporate-verses I'm leaving out🤔? Where's a Wall Street analyst when you need them? So, in Sp

West Side Story Wait, *the* #Spielberg directed a remake of my (grand/)parents' favourite musical?! Be still my beating heart! The great director updates some of the more, uh, fraught elements of the (still pretty legendary, just so, ya know, we acknowledge the, uh, fraught elements)original.  At this point, we know all the songs, and here he switches them up cleverly, so it's not just a dutiful remake, making it his own. And, c'mon, who does kinetic cinema better than him? Peck fills the *impossible* shoes of Jerome Robbins well with the updated choreography. The leads do their best to fill the, uh, leads, but keep an eye on Alvarez, Andres Rivera, and Menas, who fill in admirably for the originals. But, manohmanohman, how about Faist and DeBose, who steal the show; pretty impossible given who the originals were, man, let's hope this is only the beginning for them🤩! But, dudes, hello?, Moreno, my g*ds, she just strolls in and takes command, and, boy, when Spielberg sw