I teach our foundations of cinema class and for editing week, the two choices for students to watch are Memento and Out of Sight

Anyway, it is an R-rated movie because it takes place in a prison and the language is appropriate. But it's a movie that believes in its unpretentious and earnest take on what's inspirational. Should be a crowd-pleaser. Where were the crowds?

The Oscars are stupid, but if the real-life Divine Eye doesn't get a nom, it will prove two things to me: first that the movie wasn't rolled out correctly, released in early Fall with no build-up; the Academy only wants to celebrate the already overly celebrated.

Domingo and Paul Raci are amazing alongside the real alumni of the program. It's about the power of imagination, but its also the way difficult, troubled people have imaginative visions that can be worked through in collaboration (Divine Eye).

Honestly, the movie is sorta middle-of-the-road in its ambitions, but I'm fine with it being an emotional crowd-pleasure. But it didn't come out in my small town even though we occasionally get independent movies of this calibre. BUT

Because Colman is capable of going very big but also in quiet, intimate, haunting performances in things that are more muted. What bugs me is that SING SING wasn't a breakout movie this year. It got a good NYer review and elsewhere but I don't see people online keeping it alive