Just saw "W," Oliver Stone's biopic. Seems miscast in many places. Josh Brolin does the voice well, but his energy and looks are just wrong for GWB. Ditto Thandie Newton as Condoleeza, Richard Dreyfus as Dick Cheney (AYFKM?), Jeffrey Wright as Colin, and...."caricature" is the word that springs to mind. Some of the dialog, in attempting to give us something raw and behind the curtains, just comes across as implausible and sort of mean-spirited. Really, I think Laura (Eliz Banks) is the only person they got right. And, FWIW, I don't think that having the title character swigging beer and wolfing down food in nearly every shot is a nuanced or interesting way to develop a character. From the movie, you would expect he had turned into Pres. Taft in a few months.

Syd--FYI the family in In Cold Blood was named Clutter, not Cutter.

I haven't seen the film.
A few days ago I trekked to my pretty good Dvd shop with a list in hand of 2014 films I wanted to pick up. I rarely remember to bring a list. Unfortunately they had none of what I was looking for.
Begin Again and Get On Up were on BR, but I'm not.
The selection and updating is not what it used to be. The golden age of piracy has passed. I cna still probably get most of them right now at a fancy shop for 50% more and annoyingly in cases which takes up much more room. So I'll continue to wait.

BW, it was me who reviewed The Babadook, not Gromit. Or maybe you were agreeing with his large font?

Anyone see the 2014 thriller, The 2 Faces of January? An absorbing blend of Highsmith and Hitchcock, and I am now in the Oscar Isaac fan club (Drive, Llewyn Davis, Ex Machina). Viggo and Kirsten are also topnotch, and Greece is photogenic as expected. There are a couple moves I didn't make sense of, but that's Highsmith for ya...her characters have perverse streaks, put it that way.