My Award nominations: Acting Ensemble

Oh boy, where to begin. So many of this year's best movies owe much to the work done by their casts; transcending the sum of all the individual performances to become something more holistically powerful than any one actor could ever be (Even though those individual performances were indeed great). Check out the five best Acting Ensembles of the year, as far as I'm concerned, after the cut.

Capsule Reviews for the Dog Days of Summer

With the fall festival season just around the corner and pundits gearing up for the months-long deluge of awards hopefuls, now seems like a good opportunity to take advantage of the calm before the storm by catching up with some summer releases I never got around to writing about. Here are some 1-or-2-sentence reactions to various films: