4/29/2023 0 Comments Ordinary world movie online![]() ![]() Carter Makes History, Again: The costume designer, who received an Academy Award for “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” after winning her first for the original “Black Panther” in 2019, became the first Black woman to secure two Oscars. But it was one of the few to go the distance. Early Releases: “Everything Everywhere” wasn’t the first top film to have its debut long before awards season.What’s Next for Michelle Yeoh?: Too often after a milestone like an Oscar win Hollywood fails to find central roles for women of color, our columnist writes.The 95th Academy Awards The 95th Academy Awards saw “Everything Everywhere All at Once” sweep most of the top categories, including best picture and directing. Jordan of “Creed III” and “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” It was an odd way to signal that violence was unwelcome. He focused on what would happen in the extremely unlikely event anyone went rogue this year, pointing out performers in the audience whose screen characters were brutal enforcers - Pedro Pascal of “The Mandalorian,” Michael B. Kimmel addressed Smith’s slap at length without really talking about it. Ron Hubba Hubba,” maybe the best line of the night.) ![]() Jimmy Kimmel, reviving the role of the solo Oscar host, got off some good lines in his monologue - the movies are still distinct from television because “a TV show can’t lose $100 million.” (Though in the age of Netflix and Amazon, is that true?) But on balance it was safe, with the sharp jibes reserved for easy targets who weren’t there, like James Cameron and Tom Cruise. After the depredations of streaming video and Covid-19, no chances are being taken. There is now, through no one’s individual fault, a consistently promotional, exhortatory, shrink-wrapped feeling to the Oscars. But at the end of the now endless awards season, we knew that they would be, and we had a pretty good idea what they would say. The audience in the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles roared for the early victories of sentimental favorites like Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis of “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (for best supporting actor and actress) and the late - very late - victories of the film’s writers and directors, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, and star, Michelle Yeoh. There was a crisis team in place to handle the fallout from any unexpected catastrophes like Will Smith’s attack on Chris Rock at last year’s show, but there was nothing it could do about the ordinariness and sameness of the ABC broadcast. But the 95th Academy Awards could have used a jolt of some kind as they wound their way through three and a half hours on Sunday night. No, of course onstage assaults are unacceptable. Still, despite the earnestly honorable intentions, and in keeping with the film’s title, all involved here wind up coming off as not much more than…yep…you guessed it.To paraphrase Greta Garbo, give me back my slap. In all candor, the same can be said of the turns turned in by the flick’s supporting stable of actors, which includes a trio of highly capable pros in Selma Blair, Chris Messina and Fred Armisen. To the point where Armstrong’s underplaying of his understated character never managed to amplify and fully engage me. However, he proves to be just a little too passive in this role. Now granted, Armstrong’s Perry is of decidedly docile demeanor, having ostensibly fallen into the mostly uneventful life he now leads. Writer/Director Lee Kirk thrusts it completely upon Armstrong to carry his movie, as the brilliant musician performs in practically every single one of it’s scenes. While the hard driving original music Armstrong contributes is fantastic, particularly the amped-up onslaught that mule kick starts the story, the superlatives for this largely lukewarm effort pretty much start and end there. When presented with the opportunity to celebrate his 40th birthday in grand style he does it up right in a posh New York City hotel suite, together with his ex band-mates and a pack of party animals he’s heretofore never met. ![]() This cat is a fish flung far out of water as domesticated husband, father and feckless hardware store sales guy. The comedy stars Green Day front-man Billie Joe Armstrong as Perry, a just turned middle-aged singer/guitarist on indefinite hiatus from his once-promising rock group. I really wanted to like “Ordinary World”. ![]()
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