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Below are my picks for this year’s Oscars. But, as usual, I feel obliged to preface them by stating my abiding lament: Winning an Oscar is more about crass political campaigning than artistic achievement; box office receipts matter more than critical acclaim. And I have little regard for preening poseurs showing off borrowed frocks for… Read more.
The Help was a box-office hit. It also won critical acclaim. This included Octavia Spencer winning an Academy Award (an Oscar) for Best Supporting Actress and the film winning a slew of other Academy Award nominations, namely Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress for Jessica Chastain, and Best Actress for Viola Davis (evidently everybody upstaged the… Read more.
Am I the only one who finds it discouraging that the most celebrated relationships between black and white women in film are those which feature the former working as a domestic servant for the latter? Here we are, 72 years since Gone with the Wind first celebrated this hardly “ennobling” relationship; yet people (mostly misguided,… Read more.
