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 It’s an exciting year, with a lot of races that are still considered up in the air and an overall excellent list of nominees. Big picture, it’s hard for me to think of anything that’s a real complete gobsmacking snub, i.e., not just that a great something or other hasn’t been nominated, but that I can readily identify the nomination whose torch I’d blow out with a good explanation why. But for all the excitement and the buzz in the air, I’m frustrated and annoyed and peeved and something something something that there’s a strong sense that One Battle After Another is going to win Best Picture. It’s a good movie, sure. It’s on my top ten .  But it isn’t even the best Warner Brothers picture of 2025.  One Battle takes an awfully long time to find its footing, and it’s a good movie with some nifty stuff. In five or ten years I’ll be curious to see it again, kind of like how I’m kind of curious to see There Will be Blood.  I’m thinking of the car chase scene.  I’m ...

2:40 AM GMT:  OMG, a post-credits sequence on the Oscars.  Sean Penn’s glorious final moments in One Battle.  But, now I want to see the alternative ending that goes at the final scene in the jazz club at the end of Sinners.  Can that get leaked.  Please please please please.  For your Live Oscar Blogger for Life. So, that’s a wrap.  It’s late here in London. 2:37 AM GMT:  I hope that One Battle After Another will not be the last movie I see at the glorious Astor in Melbourne, which is one of the greatest places on all the planet to see a movie.  It’s been showing them for 90 years, and while l kind of would have preferred IMAX Film, I’m perfectly happy that I have the memory of seeing 70mm at the amazing Astor. 2:25 AM GMT: Fuck.I like One Battle After Another.  But repeat after me, not even the best Warner Brothers release of the year  Sinners, Sinners, Sinners, Sinners, Sinners, Sinners, Sinners, Sinners. 2:35 AM GMT: 25 years fo...