Sunday, February 2, 2025

Nightcap 2/2/25: I am done with the NFL, Random reviews, notes on the Oscars, and notes for the month,


A few notes for the new month.

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I’m pretty much done with pro football.

The sense that the league is controlling the narratives and that they are pushing the Chiefs is so overwhelming that I’m done. The NFL wants the Chiefs in because it's good for ratings and the non-football fans will tune in.

I find it funny it kicks in just as the sports books are getting closer to the sport. I also find it funny in that the NFL was started by the team owners, all of which were gamblers and not beyond cheating to win bets, so that the games would not be fixed. And now 100 years on it seems like the games are being nudged if not outright fixed.

Come on- how many weeks in a row can Kansas City get so many questionable calls in their favor that week after week that the “errors” let them win.

It’s bullshit.

Never mind that everyone is sick of Mahommes, Reid and Taylor Swift.

I can't be bothered and I’m making plans not to watch the Super Bowl.

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I've seen Robet Zemekis' HERE. It's the life of a room from prehisstoric times where we are  on the land where the room  will be on through time and focusing on the life of one family who live in the house. It's based on a comic the perspective never changes. What worked on the page is dead on screen, even with a great cast.

I saw the Netflix film BACK IN ACTION with Jamie Foxx, Cameron Diaz and Glenn Close. It's about retired spes who end up back in the game. Yes we have been here before, but the action is good and the cast is great. I want a sequel.

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I’ve seen all the features playing Slamdance and there is some great stuff there.

Buy tickets or a streaming package.

Details here.

Reviews when the embargo drops.

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For those wondering the reason there is only so much Sundance coverage is because I was not officially accredited. Unless I was to go there my pickings are going to be limited and the remote option is a pain in the bottom. It’s easier and better to cover the  fests here in New York instead.

For those wondering if there are any other festivals I won’t cover, the answer is SXSW. I won’t do so because the press office a couple years back told a couple of writers that they would back the PR person who wanted have their credentials pulled for writing bad reviews. I will not deal with the festival, nor will I deal with that PR person.

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This month look for Unseen’s 15th Anniversary, coverage of Berlin, the aforementioned Slamdance as well as the New York Children’s Film Festival which starts the last night of the month.

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What are my thoughts on the Oscars?

I love that they nominated Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump in the scathing Apprentice.

I love the multiple noms for Flow.

Lots of things left out but there are only so many slots.

I actually have horses in some of the races owing to the fact that I know or interviewed some of the nominees (GO ED LACHMAN!)

To be honest this is the first year in decades where there doesn’t seem to be anything radically wrong with the picks.

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EMILIA PEREZ may get some acting awards but I don’t think the it will win any of the other awards.  It’s not the controversy, which I think is tempest in a tea pot and will be quickly forgotten  away from the spotlight, rather than I’m not certain it’s good enough to win any of the other awards.

There are other better choices.

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