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Where to Watch Oscar Nominee Movies Online
Dear Kay,
Oscars tonight. The Super Bowl for knitters. I always watch. I’ve got 12 pints of Jeni’s ice cream over here if anybody wants to come hang out. (Thanks, Kay, for getting my butterfat consumption where it needs to be.)
Superquick post today because I’ve got knitting to do, people. Also: I am on a two-day Twitter diet. As a result, I have about six hours of free time that I’m going to use for something supernoble like collecting all the links I’d be Tweeting if I weren’t on this stupid Twitter diet so I can dump them onto Twitter all at once on Monday. Twitter is sharing! Twitter is love! Sort of.
Back to the point here. You probably haven’t seen a lot of the Oscar-nominated films, so here is a list from HighSnobiety.com (new one to me) of where you can watch 27 of the nominees online.
Of these, I have only seen OJ: Made in America, which is riveting. My dad’s review of Manchester by the Sea: “Well, it starts off depressing and goes downhill from there.”
I will say that the Arrival trailer up top feels kind of newsy. No, that’s not Amy Adams at a town hall meeting; she’s being taken to interact with the aliens who have just landed on Earth.
Love,
Ann
Ann, your dad was right, but it was beautifully real. I really liked it AND Hidden Figures.
Exactly, it was SO real. And beautiful.
After spending Saturday double knitting an intricate pattern, it’s time to pull out the Hadley today (really behind) and do some mindless knitting. How come 17.5 inches takes forever?
As a linguist, I can heartily recommend Arrival! Great sci fi film with a very human focus, and also a reasonably good representation of a linguist for Hollywood. Also, I’ve quite literally locked myself out of my Twitter account until I finish my thesis. My life has been better for it. (Though I do miss the knitter interaction that happens there.)
We watched Arrival and Hacksaw ridge this weekend. Both so good!
Saw Manchester by the Sea, filmed in our neighboring towns and cities. My husband did not find my review, “It’s not as bad as you think it’s going to be.” sufficiently encouraging to get him to see it, too.
Thanks–just what I need to make progress on my Hadley sleeves!
I saw Arrival but didn’t like it. If these aliens are smart enough to build a space ship and travel to earth, why aren’t they smart enough to know our language!?! I had more dislikes about the movie but that is the main one. I can’t wait to see Hacksaw Ridge which should be coming to me soon from my local library! There is a documentary from 2004 called Conscientious Objector about the same man that I saw sometime ago. It was great. We just got a re-released copy at our library and I’m going to watch it again before watching the movie.