Archive for January 7th, 2008

A Kick In The Globes

NBC and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association have canceled this year’s Golden Globes awards ceremony, because the SAG actors decided they weren’t going to show up, on account of their “respect” for the WGA strike. HFPA will simply announce the winners at some point, with no pomp or circum­stance involved. By canceling the show and announcing the winners, HFPA is letting the SAG actors eat their cake (by giving them their awards) and have it, too (by caving in to their protest of the awards show). If I were HFPA, I’d have postponed it instead. That way, they could keep the [ . . . ]

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Atonement

Expect subtle spoilers. I went to see Atonement this afternoon. I was a tad disap­pointed. First of all, the movie couldn’t decide which story it was trying to tell. I wanted a love story. It was supposed to be a love story. But it couldn’t focus on the romance. It spends reels 1–3 and 6–7 on Birony’s story of guilt and atonement, while reels 4 and 5 are spent on Robbie’s WWII Interlude. It spends a lot of time with Robbie in France, following him as he tries to “come home” to Cecilia, which would all be well and good if we had spent a little more time with [ . . . ]

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