The four new releases we found this week are filled with poetry, murder, romance, and a little more murder of the fantastical variety.
Poemhood: Our Black Revival: History, Folklore & the Black Experience: A Young Adult Poetry Anthology edited by Amber McBride Taylor Byas, & Erica Martin
HarperCollins
Starring thirty-seven poets, with contributions from acclaimed authors, including Kwame Alexander, Ibi Zoboi, and Nikki Giovanni, this breathtaking Black YA poetry anthology edited by National Book Award finalist Amber McBride, Taylor Byas, and Erica Martin celebrates Black poetry, folklore, and culture.
Come, claim your wings.
Lift your life above the earth,
return to the land of your father’s birth.
What exactly is it to be Black in America?
Well, for some, it’s learning how to morph the hatred placed by others into love for oneself; for others, it’s unearthing the strength it takes to continue to hold one’s swagger when multitudinous factors work to make Black lives crumble. For some, it’s gathering around the kitchen table as Grandma tells the story of Anansi the spider, while for others it’s grinning from ear to ear while eating auntie’s spectacular 7Up cake.
Black experiences and traditions are complex, striking, and vast—they stretch longer than the Nile and are four times as deep—and carry more than just unimaginable pain—there is also joy.
Featuring an all-star group of thirty-seven powerful poetic voices, including such luminaries as Kwame Alexander, James Baldwin, Ibi Zoboi, Audre Lorde, Nikki Giovanni, and Gwendolyn Brooks, this riveting anthology depicts the diversity of the Black experience by fostering a conversation about race, faith, heritage, and resilience between fresh poets and the literary ancestors that came before them.
Edited by Taylor Byas, Erica Martin, and Coretta Scott King New Talent Award winner Amber McBride, Poemhood will simultaneously highlight the duality and nuance at the crux of so many Black experiences with poetry being the psalm constantly playing.
Wander in the Dark by Jumata Emill
Delacorte Press
Amir Trudeau only goes to his half brother Marcel’s birthday party because of Chloe Danvers. Chloe is rich, and hot, and fits right into the perfect life Marcel inherited when their father left Amir’s mother to start a new family with Marcel’s mom. But Chloe is hot enough for Amir to forget that for one night.
Does she want to hook up? Or is she trying to meddle in the estranged brothers’ messy family drama? Amir can’t tell. He doesn’t know what Chloe wants from him when, in the final hours of Mardi Gras, she asks him to take her home and stay—her parents are away and she doesn’t want to be alone.
Amir never gets an answer to his question, because when he wakes up, Chloe is dead—stabbed while he was passed out on the couch downstairs—and Amir becomes the only suspect. A Black teenager caught fleeing the scene of the murder of a rich white girl? All of New Orleans agrees, the case is open and shut.
Amir is innocent. He has a lawyer, but unless someone can figure out who really killed Chloe, it doesn’t look good for him. His number one ally? Marcel. Their relationship is messy, but his half brother knows that Amir isn’t a murderer—and maybe proving Amir’s innocence will repair the rift that’s always existed between them.
To find Chloe’s killer, Amir and Marcel need to dig into her secrets. And what they find is darker than either could have guessed. Parents will go to any lengths to protect their children, and in a city as old as New Orleans, the right family connections can bury even the ugliest truths.
Just Say Yes by Goldy Moldavsky
Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Jimena Ramos had no idea she was undocumented.
Now she’s seventeen, and she needs to figure out a way to stay in New York City, the only home she can remember. There’s only one possibility that will get her a green card quickly enough: Jimena is going to find an American to marry her.
She’s got one excellent candidate: Vitaly, her next-door neighbor and friend, the only person she trusts with her secret. But Vitaly’s got his own plans for the future. He’s a definite no.
So Jimena tries online dating. She decides to approach this marriage like a business transaction. She figures out a plan that just might save her and make her a citizen at last.
But of course, she can’t stop thinking about Vitaly.
These Deadly Prophecies by Andrea Tang
G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers
A teenage sorcerer’s apprentice must solve her boss’s murder in order to prove her innocence in this twisty, magic-infused murder mystery perfect for fans of Knives Out and The Inheritance Games .
Being an apprentice for one of the world’s most famous sorcerers has its challenges; Tabatha Zeng just didn’t think they would include solving crime. But when her boss, the infamous fortuneteller Sorcerer Solomon, predicts his own brutal death—and worse, it comes true—Tabatha finds herself caught in the crosshairs.
The police have their sights set on her and Callum Solomon, her murdered boss’s youngest son. With suspicion swirling around them, the two decide to team up to find the real killer and clear their own names once and for all.
But solving a murder isn’t as easy as it seems, especially when the suspect list is mostly the rich, connected, and magical members of Sorcerer Solomon’s family. And Tabatha can’t quite escape the nagging voice in her head just how much can she really trust Callum Solomon?
Nothing is as it seems in this quick-witted and fantastical murder mystery.
The Zone of Interest
I think it might actually be this easy but just in case! - The Color Purple, Saltburn, Origin, Air, Napoleon
Director
Christopher Nolan - Oppenheimer
Martin Scorsese - Killers of the Flower Moon
Yorgos Lanthimos - Poor Things (most likely to get Denis Villeneuved, however)
Alexander Payne - The Holdovers
Jonathan Glazer - The Zone of Interest
Alt for Payne - Greta Gerwig - Barbie (I never thought she was getting nominated but now that more people seem to agree I'm suspicious!)
Alt for Glazer or Lanthimos - Justine Triet - Anatomy of a Fall
JUST IN CASE - J.A. Bayona - Society of the Snow
Actress (optimism!)
Lily Gladstone - Killers of the Flower Moon
Emma Stone - Poor Things
Carey Mulligan - Maestro
Sandra Huller - Anatomy of a Fall
Greta Lee - Past Lives
they'll reward her for producing the biggest hit of the year but take the performance for granted - Margot Robbie - Barbie
I simply do not buy it! - Annette Bening - Nyad
Well, - Fantasia Barrino - The Color Purple
Actor
Paul Giamatti - The Holdovers
Cillian Murphy - Oppenheimer
Bradley Cooper - Maestro
Jeffrey Wright - American Fiction (is he the secret snub?)
Leonardo DiCaprio - Killers of the Flower Moon (I was expecting him to get The Irishman-ed but I think Lily switching to lead will make them a pair)
Will look the best on the red carpet - Colman Domingo - Rustin
No<3 - Barry Keoghan - Saltburn
On the off chance they're interested in nominating a single good performance in this category - Andrew Scott - All of Us Strangers
Supporting Actress
Da'Vine Joy Randolph - The Holdovers
Emily Blunt - Oppenheimer
-----BAR OF CERTAINTY-----
Danielle Brooks - The Color Purple
-----BAR OF SEMI-CERTAINTY------
Penelope Cruz - Ferrari (she's been nominated with less support?)
Rosamund Pike - Saltburn
no legitimate awards body has nominated her without Annette Bening and I'm not predicting her either! - Jodie Foster - Nyad
it's definitely not a rage stroke - Julianne Moore - May December
do they care about the acting in this? - Sandra Huller - The Zone of Interest
nice try! - America Ferrera - Barbie
DJR is sucking up so many number 1 votes something wild is bound to happen - Rachel McAdams - Are You There God? It's Me Margaret
Supporting Actor
RDJ - Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling - Barbie
Robert De Niro - Killers of the Flower Moon
Dominic Sessa - The Holdovers
Willem Dafoe - Poor Things
When there's two from the same movie they go with the older one - Mark Ruffalo - Poor Things
If they have to nominate someone under 50 in this category it certainly won't be for someone this pretty! - Charles Melton - May December
cannot conjure the image of a single person putting this at number 1 on their ballot - Sterling K. Brown - American Fiction
Adapted Screenplay
American Fiction
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
This is for my people who just lost someone - The Zone of Interest, All of Us Strangers, Are You There God? It's Me Margaret
Original Screenplay
The Holdovers
Past Lives
Anatomy of a Fall
Maestro
Saltburn
They can't do three good screenplays - May December
Congrats on the WGA nominations - Air, Asteroid City
Cinematography
Poor Things
Oppenheimer
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
The Zone of Interest
honestly wasteful to have shot this on film - Saltburn
am I an Ed Lachman FAN? - El Conde
Costume Design
Barbie
Poor Things
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer (if EEAAO could do it)
COIN TOSS - Maestro
Film Editing
[REDACTED]
Killers of the Flower Moon
Poor Things
The Holdovers
Anatomy of a Fall
enough - Barbie
Tar voters I know you're out there - The Zone of Interest
get some help - Maestro
cars - Ferrari
Makeup & Hairstyling
Maestro
Poor Things
Golda
Oppenheimer
Killers of the Flower Moon (the BAFTA nomination is throwing me)
???? - Society of the Snow
Presumably has to get one of it's shortlists? - Napoleon
Production Design
Poor Things
Barbie
Oppenheimer
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
wish I were brave enough to predict this - The Zone of Interest
Score
Oppenheimer
Killers of the Flower Moon
Poor Things
Indiana Jones
The Zone of Interest
Alt - anything animated
[REDACTED]
the good Barbie song
the bad Barbie song
Diane Warren
Rustin
Killers of the Flower Moon
alt - American Symphony, the other good Barbie song
Sound
[REDACTED]
Maestro
Killers of the Flower Moon
Ferrari
The Zone of Interest
I feel like that's it but here's the rest of the list in descending order of likelihood - Barbie, Napoleon, The Killer, Mission Impossible, The Creator
Visual Effects
Poor Things
Marvel 32
The Creator
Godzilla
Society of the Snow
I'm bombing this category as usual - Spiderman, Napoleon, Indiana Jones
Animated
Spiderman
The Boy and the Heron
Elemental
Nimona
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (really?)
every year I try to predict one of these but I've decided to learn my lesson this time - Suzume
they're running - Chicken Run
Documentary
20 Days in Mariupol
Beyond Utopia
Still: a Michael J. Fox Movie
The Eternal Memory
Bobi Wine: The People's President
FRONTRUNNER SNUB - American Symphony
possibly too experimental? - Four Daughters
International
The Zone of Interest
Society of the Snow
Fallen Leaves (BECAUSE there is nothing to get)
20 Days in Mariupol
Totem
Justine's Revenge - The Taste of Things
lmao - The Teachers' Lounge
is Danish - The Promised Land
is allegedly terrible so definitely a contender - Amerikatsi
forgot to release it - Perfect Days
what about the YAK - The Monk and the Gun
It*lian - Io Capitano
Remember taste? - Godland
Critics Choice Awards 2024: Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer, Barbie, Succession, The Bear lead the wins
The Critics Choice Awards 2024 celebrated cinematic and television excellence on Sunday night, January 14, 2024. Chelsea Handler returned as the host for the evening. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer shone, securing eight wins, including Best Picture and Best Director though Cillian Murphy missed the Best Actor win. Greta Gerwig’s Barbie claimed six awards, winning in categories like Best Comedy and Best Original Screenplay. Emma Stone earned Best Actress for Poor Things. On the TV front, Succession, The Bear, and Beef led the wins.
FILM
BEST PICTURE
American Fiction
Barbie
The Color Purple
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer - WINNER
Past Lives
Poor Things
Saltburn
BEST ACTOR
Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Leonardo DiCaprio, Killers of the Flower Moon
Colman Domingo, Rustin
Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers - WINNER
Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction
BEST ACTRESS
Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall
Greta Lee, Past Lives
Carey Mulligan, Maestro
Margot Robbie, Barbie
Emma Stone, Poor Things - WINNER
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Sterling K. Brown, American Fiction
Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer - WINNER
Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Charles Melton, May December
Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple
America Ferrera, Barbie
Jodie Foster, Nyad
Julianne Moore, May December
Da'Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers - WINNER
BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
Abby Ryder Fortson, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Ariana Greenblatt, Barbie
Calah Lane, Wonka
Milo Machado Graner, Anatomy of a Fall
Dominic Sessa, The Holdovers - WINNER
Madeleine Yuna Voyles, The Creator
BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
Air
Barbie
The Color Purple
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer - WINNER
BEST DIRECTOR
Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Greta Gerwig, Barbie
Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer - WINNER
Alexander Payne, The Holdovers
Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Kelly Fremon Craig, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers
Cord Jefferson, American Fiction - WINNER
Tony McNamara, Poor Things
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Samy Burch, May December
Alex Convery, Air
Bradley Cooper & Josh Singer, Maestro
Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach, Barbie - WINNER
David Hemingson, The Holdovers
Celine Song, Past Lives
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Matthew Libatique, Maestro
Rodrigo Prieto, Barbie
Rodrigo Prieto, Killers of the Flower Moon
Robbie Ryan, Poor Things
Linus Sandgren, Saltburn
Hoyte van Hoytema, Oppenheimer - WINNER
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Suzie Davies, Charlotte Dirickx, Saltburn
Ruth De Jong, Claire Kaufman, Oppenheimer
Jack Fisk, Adam Willis, Killers of the Flower Moon
Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer, Barbie - WINNER
James Price, Shona Heath, Szusza Mihalek, Poor Things
Adam Stockhausen, Kris Moran, Asteroid City
BEST EDITING
William Goldenberg – Air
Nick Houy – Barbie
Jennifer Lame – Oppenheimer - WINNER
Yorgos Mavropsaridis – Poor Things
Thelma Schoonmaker – Killers of the Flower Moon
Michelle Tesoro – Maestro
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Jacqueline Durran, Barbie - WINNER
Lindy Hemming, Wonka
Francine Jamison-Tanchuck, The Color Purple
Holly Waddington, Poor Things
Jacqueline West, Killers of the Flower Moon
Janty Yates, David Crossman, Napoleon
BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP
Barbie - WINNER
The Color Purple
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Priscilla
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Creator
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Oppenheimer - WINNER
Poor Things
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
BEST COMEDY
American Fiction
Barbie - WINNER
Bottoms
The Holdovers
No Hard Feelings
Poor Things
BEST ANIMATED FILM
The Boy and the Heron
Elemental
Nimona
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - WINNER
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Wish
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Anatomy of a Fall - WINNER
Godzilla Minus One
Perfect Days
Society of the Snow
The Taste of Things
The Zone of Interest
BEST SONG
“Dance the Night," Barbie
“I’m Just Ken," Barbie - WINNER
“Peaches," The Super Mario Bros. Movie
“Road to Freedom," Rustin
"This Wish," Wish
"What Was I Made For," Barbie
BEST SCORE
Jerskin Fendrix, Poor Things
Michael Giacchino, Society of the Snow
Ludwig Göransson, Oppenheimer - WINNER
Daniel Pemberton, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Robbie Robertson, Killers of the Flower Moon
Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt, Barbie
TELEVISION
BEST DRAMA SERIES
The Crown
The Diplomat
The Last of Us
Loki
The Morning Show
Stark Trek: Strange New Worlds
Succession - WINNER
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Kieran Culkin – Succession - WINNER
Tom Hiddleston – Loki
Timothy Olyphant – Justified: City Primeval
Pedro Pascal – The Last of Us
Ramón Rodríguez – Will Trent
Jeremy Strong – Succession
BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Jennifer Aniston – The Morning Show
Aunjanue Ellis – Justified: City Primeval
Bella Ramsey – The Last of Us
Keri Russell – The Diplomat
Sarah Snook – Succession - WINNER
Reese Witherspoon – The Morning Show
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Khalid Abdalla – The Crown
Billy Crudup – The Morning Show - WINNER
Ron Cephas Jones – Truth Be Told
Matthew MacFadyen – Succession
Ke Huy Quan – Loki
Rufus Sewell – The Diplomat
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Nicole Beharie – The Morning Show
Elizabeth Debicki – The Crown - WINNER
Sophia Di Martino – Loki
Celia Rose Gooding – Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Karen Pittman – The Morning Show
Christina Ricci – Yellowjackets
BEST COMEDY SERIES
Abbott Elementary
Barry
The Bear - WINNER
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Poker Face
Reservation Dogs
Shrinking
What We Do in the Shadows
BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Bill Hader – Barry
Steve Martin – Only Murders in the Building
Kayvan Novak – What We Do in the Shadows
Drew Tarver – The Other Two
Jeremy Allen White – The Bear - WINNER
D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai – Reservation Dogs
BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Rachel Brosnahan – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Quinta Brunson – Abbott Elementary
Ayo Edebiri – The Bear - WINNER
Bridget Everett – Somebody Somewhere
Devery Jacobs – Reservation Dogs
Natasha Lyonne – Poker Face
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Phil Dunster – Ted Lasso
Harrison Ford – Shrinking
Harvey Guillén – What We Do in the Shadows
James Marsden – Jury Duty
Ebon Moss-Bachrach – The Bear - WINNER
Henry Winkler – Barry
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Paulina Alexis – Reservation Dogs
Alex Borstein – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Janelle James – Abbott Elementary
Sheryl Lee Ralph – Abbott Elementary
Meryl Streep – Only Murders in the Building - WINNER
Jessica Williams – Shrinking
BEST LIMITED SERIES
Beef - WINNER
Daisy Jones & the Six
Fargo
Fellow Travelers
Lessons in Chemistry
Love & Death
A Murder at the End of the World
A Small Light
BEST MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Finestkind
Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie
No One Will Save You
Quiz Lady - WINNER
Reality
BEST ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Matt Bomer – Fellow Travelers
Tom Holland – The Crowded Room
David Oyelowo – Lawmen: Bass Reeves
Tony Shalhoub – Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie
Kiefer Sutherland – The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Steven Yeun – Beef - WINNER
BEST ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Kaitlyn Dever – No One Will Save You
Carla Gugino – The Fall of the House of Usher
Brie Larson – Lessons in Chemistry
Bel Powley – A Small Light
Sydney Sweeney – Reality
Juno Temple – Fargo
Ali Wong – Beef - WINNER
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Jonathan Bailey – Fellow Travelers - WINNER
Taylor Kitsch – Painkiller
Jesse Plemons – Love & Death
Lewis Pullman – Lessons in Chemistry
Liev Schreiber – A Small Light
Justin Theroux – White House Plumbers
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Maria Bello – Beef - WINNER
Billie Boullet – A Small Light
Willa Fitzgerald – The Fall of the House of Usher
Aja Naomi King – Lessons in Chemistry
Mary McDonnell – The Fall of the House of Usher
Camila Morrone – Daisy Jones & the Six
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE SERIES
Bargain
The Glory
The Good Mothers
The Interpreter of Silence
Lupin - WINNER
Mask Girl
Moving
BEST ANIMATED SERIES
Bluey
Bob’s Burgers
Harley Quinn
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off - WINNER
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Young Love
BEST TALK SHOW
The Graham Norton Show
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver - WINNER
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
BEST COMEDY SPECIAL
Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man and the Pool
Alex Borstein: Corsets & Clown Suits
John Early: Now More Than Ever
John Mulaney: Baby J - Winner
Trevor Noah: Where Was I
Wanda Sykes – I’m an Entertainer
SECOND MLM SHIP BRACKET OFFICIAL TOURNAMENT MATCH UP'S
The Second MLM Ship Bracket Tournament has its match-up's
OFFICIAL POLLS BEGIN TODAY AND will last until Tuesday, September 19th.
Polls will begin with one 24 hour preliminary round (Monday, September 11th), before the full Round One begins (Tuesday, September 12th).
INFO
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Remember, get those votes in people. Reblog, comment, tag. Get as many others to vote and get your favorite ships to Round Two!
With that out of the way-
PRELIMINARY ROUND
1.Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley/Captain John "Soap" MacTavish vs. Lestat de Lioncourt/Louis de Pointe du Lac
2.Dorian Gray/Basil Hallward vs. Steven Stone/Wallace
REMAINING OFFICIAL MATCH-UP'S ARE BELOW THE CUT!
ROUND ONE POLLS
SIDE A
1. Charles “Charlie” Spring/Nicholas “Nick” Nelson vs. Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley/Captain John "Soap" MacTavish
2. Shawn Spencer/Burton Guster vs. Stolas/Blitzo
3. Rihito Sajou/Hikaru Kusakabe vs. Chad Danforth/Ryan Evans
4. Kieren Walker/Simon Monroe vs. Achilles/Patroclus
5. Sir Ambrosius Goldenloin/Sir Ballister Boldheart vs. Alexander Claremont-Diaz/Prince Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor
6. Kotetsu T. Kaburagi/Barnaby “Bunny” Brooks Jr. vs. Enjolras/Grantaire
7. Steve Rogers/James Buchanan “Bucky” Barnes vs. Victor Frankenstein/Henry Clerval
8. Saitama/Genos vs. Victor Nikiforov/Yuuri Katsuki
SIDE B
9. Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne vs. Dorian Gray/Basil Hallward
10. Eric “Bitty” Bittle/Jack Zimmermann vs. Akira Fudo/Ryo Asuka
11. Mikage Souji/Mamiya Chida vs. Tanaka/Ohta
12. Kazuki Yasaka/Enta Jinnai vs. Jean Valjean/Javert
13. Zuko/Sokka vs. Shizuo Heiwajima/Tom Tanaka
14. Kenzo Tenma/Wolfgang Grimmer vs. Kim Kitsuragi/Harry Du Bois
15. Shouma Takakura/Yosuke Yamashita vs. Galo Thymos/Lio Fotia
16. Kazuki Yasaka/Toi Kuji vs. Captain James T. Kirk/Spock
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'...Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer leads the way with 13 nominations...
Who is hosting the Baftas 2024?
For the very first time, David Tennant will take up hosting duties. The actor is “delighted to have been asked to host the EE Bafta Film Awards and help celebrate the very best of this year’s films and the many brilliant people who bring them to life,” although there’s no guarantee he’ll get to do it twice...
Who is nominated for the Baftas 2024?
Best Film
Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Outstanding British Film
All of Us Strangers
How to Have Sex
Napoleon
The Old Oak
Poor Things
Rye Lane
Saltburn
Scrapper
Wonka
The Zone of Interest
Best Director
Andrew Haigh – All of Us Stranger
Justine Triet – Anatomy of a Fall
Alexander Payne – The Holdovers
Bradley Cooper – Maestro
Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer
Jonathan Glazer – The Zone of Interest
Best Leading Actor
Bradley Cooper – Maestro
Colman Domingo – Rustin
Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers
Barry Keoghan – Saltburn
Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer
Teo Yoo – Past Lives
Best Supporting Actress
Emily Blunt – Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks – The Color Purple
Claire Foy – All of Us Strangers
Sandra Hüller – The Zone of Interest
Rosamund Pike – Saltburn
Da’vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers
Best Supporting Actor
Robert De Niro – Killers of The Flower Moon
Robert Downey Jr – Oppenheimer
Jacob Elordi – Saltburn
Ryan Gosling – Barbie
Paul Mescal – All of Us Strangers
Dominic Sessa – The Holdovers
Best Adapted Screenplay
All Of Us Strangers
American Fiction
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
The Zone Of Interest
Best Original Score
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Saltburn
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Best Casting
All of Us Strangers
Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers
How To Have Sex
Killers of the Flower Moon
Best Cinematography
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest
Best Costume design
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Best Editing
Anatomy of a Fall
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest
Best Production design
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest
Best Make-up and hair
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Best Sound
Ferrari
Maestro
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Oppenheimer
The Zone of Interest...
Today has been a day, enough said. That is to say, it was a good day, and I am satisfied with the progress I have made and can rest tonight in the feelings of accomplishment.
Tasks Completed:
Geometry - Learned about segments of circles + practice + honors work
Lit and Comp II - Reviewed units 13-15 vocabulary + read "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor" by Arthur Conan Doyle + response assignment + reviewed parallelism + continued researching for my biography assignment
World History - Reviewed unit terms + answered half of the Age of Revolutions questions
Biology with Lab - Genetics lab using marshmallows + lab portfolio assignment
Foundations - Read more on meekness + completed daily Lumosity brain workout + finished putting together my speech with editing + practiced giving speech
Piano - Practiced for two hours in one hour sessions
Khan Academy - Completed World History Unit 5: Lesson 3 (parts 3-4)
CLEP - None today
Duolingo - Completed at least one lesson each in Spanish, French, and Chinese
Reading - Read pages 1-38 of We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds
Chores - Put away the dishes + took the trash out
Activities of the Day:
Ballet
Pointe
Journal/Mindfulness
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What I’m Grateful for Today:
I am grateful for my brother calling me today to check in on me.
Quote of the Day:
She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
Etching and drypoint, 1988, signed in pencil, dated and numbered 3/35 (total edition includes ten artist's proofs), on Somerset Satin paper, printed by Simmelink/Sukimoto Editions, Marina Del Rey, California, published by Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, framed
Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster in Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Martin Milner, Jeff Donnell, Sam Levene, Joe Frisco, Barbara Nichols, Emile Meyer, Edith Atwater. Screenplay: Clifford Odets, Ernest Lehman, based on a novel by Lehman. Cinematography: James Wong Howe. Art direction: Edward Carrere. Film editing: Alan Crosland Jr. Music: Elmer Bernstein.
What do Sweet Smell of Success, His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940), Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges, 1941), and The Searchers (John Ford, 1956) have in common? They are all among the critically acclaimed films that, among other honors, have been selected for inclusion in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. And none of them received a single nomination in any category for the Academy Awards. Sweet Smell is, of course, a wickedly cynical film about two of the most egregious anti-heroes, New York newspaper columnist J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster) and press agent Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis), ever to appear in a film. They make the gangsters of Francis Ford Coppola's and Martin Scorsese's films look like Boy Scouts. So given the inclination of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to stay on the good side of columnists and publicists, we might expect it to shy away from honoring the film with Oscars. But consider the categories in which it might have been nominated. The best picture Oscar for 1957 went to The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean), a respectable choice, and Sidney Lumet's tensely entertaining 12 Angry Men certainly deserved the nomination it received. But in what ways are the other nominees -- Peyton Place (Mark Robson), Sayonara (Joshua Logan), and Witness for the Prosecution (Billy Wilder) -- superior to Sweet Smell? The best actor Oscar winner was Alec Guinness for The Bridge on the River Kwai, another plausible choice. But Tony Curtis gave the performance of his career as Sidney Falco, overcoming his "pretty boy" image -- in fact, the film makes fun of it: One character refers to him as "Eyelashes" -- by digging deep into his roots growing up in The Bronx. Burt Lancaster would win an Oscar three years later for Elmer Gantry (Richard Brooks), a more showy but less controlled performance than the one he gives here. Either or both of them would have been better nominees than Marlon Brando was for his lazy turn in Sayonara, Anthony Franciosa in A Hatful of Rain (Fred Zinnemann), Charles Laughton in Witness for the Prosecution, and Anthony Quinn in Wild Is the Wind (George Cukor). The dialogue provided by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman for the film crackles and stings -- there is probably no more quotable, or stolen from, screenplay, yet it went unnominated. So did James Wong Howe's eloquent black-and-white cinematography, showing off the neon-lighted Broadway in a sinister fashion, and Elmer Bernstein's atmospheric score mixed well with the jazz sequences featuring the Chico Hamilton Quintet. Even the performers in the film who probably didn't merit nominations make solid contributions: Martin Milner is miscast as the jazz musician who falls for Hunsecker's sister (Susan Harrison), but he hasn't yet fallen into the blandness of his famous TV roles on Route 66 and Adam-12, and Barbara Nichols, who had a long career playing floozies in movies and on TV, is surprisingly touching as Rita, one of the pawns Sidney uses to get ahead. As a director, Alexander Mackendrick is best known for the comedies he did at Britain's Ealing Studios with Alec Guinness, The Man in the White Suit (1951) and The Ladykillers (1955). His work on Sweet Smell was complicated by clashes with Lancaster, who was one of the film's executive producers, and after making a few more films he accepted a position at the film school at the California Institute of the Arts in 1967, where he spent the rest of his career.
The Young Person’s Guide to History: “The Duel” | April 1, 2008 - 1:00AM | S00E01
The Young Person’s Guide to History was a spin-off of Saul of the Mole Men. Why there should be a spin-off of Saul of the Mole Men is beyond me. Originally the idea was that it was going to be four 11-minute episodes, and in fact it was produced in that format. This is one of those four episodes. When the series turned up later in 2008, they cut the length in half to TWO 11-minute episodes, each episode consisting of what was originally meant to be two episodes, edited down to half the running time. Saul of the Mole Men always came off as over-long, and when I criticized them I usually observed that they could be cut down drastically. I guess when those versions debut, we’ll actually have something to base that theory on (spoilers; I remember it still being bad).
Okay, so this is the intended series finale of the original four-episode run. At least, one would assume that it is. The plot: it’s 1804 and a bunch of guys are called to a haunted mansion to stay the night. There’s a disembodied voice on a little desktop speaker, like the kind you’d page a secretary with in the later half of the 20th Century. That’s a running thing in the series: very casual use of anachronisms. It’s not super-jokey Mel Brooks style, more like “kids making a movie and not having the resources to replicate the past accurately so they just use a car instead of a carriage” kind of thing. I like that. It’s one of the few things I truly like about this.
Okay, haunted mansion with guys. They all get killed except Thomas Jefferson who runs out in anguish, as though he were a man possessed while committing this brutal bout of deadly violence. It turns out the house in question is the White House, and Jefferson is now the president. He asks Benjamin Franklin to help him make a vice president, so they create Aaron Burr in a boiling vat, using “science”. Aaron Burr is, uh, neurodivergent. We see a single scene of him doing vice president stuff: being asked about universal healthcare on the senate floor. He makes an imbecilic re-re noise and pees into his own open mouth. The floor cheers.
Later, while having pizza, Jefferson gets fed up with Burr’s buffoonery and shoots him. He then puts the gun in Burr’s dead hand and uses it to shoot Alexander Hamilton, in order to frame them for each other’s death in a supposed duel, a historical event burned into the minds of a certain generation whose “Got Milk” advertisement got a nation of history buffs rolling in the aisles. Jefferson has transformed into a tyrant, like a guy in a freaking rated-R movie.
Jefferson finally shoots Ben Franklin, but not before cruelly taunting him for his legendary weakness. The voice on the little speaker congratulates Jefferson for being so mean. The voice is in the middle of calling him “Caleb Hilttrop?” or something like that? before being cut off. The significance of this completely eludes me, and I’m not sure if this is set-up in one of the other three episodes that would have aired along with this one, or if I just missed something in the opening sequence. We may never know, because I recall this bit being completely cut out of the version that did air. Jefferson switches the speaker to some rock song and screams “I’m the president!”
I do like that ending, I just wish anything that came before it was compelling enough to call it “earned”. I’d be hard-pressed to come up with much else in this episode that makes it worth watching. This is one of the unfunniest things to air on Adult Swim. It’s barely connected to Saul of the Mole Men, which isn’t a bad thing, honestly.
There is a scene where Seth Green (who is cut from the shortened version entirely) talks about how he and Jefferson co-authored several sci-fi books about Nathaniel Baltimore’s adventures fighting various sci-fi beasts, and we see a little scene featuring Nathaniel Baltimore shooting a creature that is just them reusing the doctor costume from Saul. This seems to imply that either Saul of the Mole Men is a work of fiction featuring Nathaniel Baltimore in this world, which would explain why there’s no real continuity between this show and Saul. I believe the Jefferson episode of Saul has events in it that would contradict the existence of this series, but I”m not feeling curious enough to even re-read my own write-up to confirm this. I will link to it though, in case you are a sicko who actually is curious.
Later in the year the truncated version of the show would air. The full-length versions were put up on Adult Swim for a short period of time. The one guy I knew of who knew how to rip from Adult Swim actually had these at one point, but deleted them because he “didn’t think anyone would want them”. Fucker. Again, if anyone knows how to get a hold of those uncut other episodes, please get in touch.
Oh, I put the whole thing on YouTube, if you want to watch it.