Awards, Awards, Awards!

The awards race has officially begun!  Yesterday several prominent critics groups released their awards – the American Film Institute’s films of the year, the National Board of Review’s awards, the New York Film Critics Circle awards, the Boston Society of Film Critics awards…

And today the Golden Globe nominations were announced.  Looks like Brokeback Mountain is the film to beat all around.  I’m looking forward to seeing it – as well as Munich, Memoirs of a Geisha, Match Point, Syriana, The Squid and The Whale.  And I need to catch up on all the movies I missed this past year that are now getting awards – Hustle & Flow, Cinderella Man, History of Violence…

What Kate Did

Blogging in haste…but I just have to say, what an awesome episode!  Now that the two groups are united (more or less), it seems like we can really get down to the business of what the heck is going on…or not.  The missing film, found in a Bible and handed over ceremoniously to Locke by Mr. Ecko…the mysterious horse in the jungle, seen by Sawyer too, so Kate’s not crazy!...and all the revelations about Kate’s past, including the fact that “what she did” was to murder her mother’s husband, not because he was abusive and horrible, but because she had found out that he was her real father and she was so disgusted with that fact.  We got to see her initial capture by our (un)friendly U.S. Marshall, and her first escape from him, as well.  We got to see her dad/not dad, a military man, who unfortunately felt he had to turn her in, but let her get a head start.  

This episode was so unbelievably rich and dense, and so much happened, I can’t even begin to talk about it all yet.  But all I have to say is – “Dad?”