Greetings! Savant's new reviews today are

Greetings once more. The Oscars were on the tame side this year. Loved Giuseppe Tornatore's foreign films montage but thought the weird graphic treatments on most of the other montages were distracting and ugly. It also seems so wrong for the most glamorous people in the world to dress up and gather, and then be harangued by a host that acts like it's all a lark. And this year's host was inoffensive compared to what we've gotten in recent years. On the other hand, I don't think a lot about Oscars so I don't feel these opinions very strongly. I certainly enjoyed seeing Ennio Morricone and Clint Eastwood together.

No Alice Faye screeners yet - I have a feeling that few if any were sent out. This is an unusual turn of events.

Notice the new look at the Internet Movie DataBase? It seems a bit harder to read now, and to have much firmer commercial connections. But it's still a great resource. Thanks for reading, Glenn Erickson