Fresh Fork

  ast sunday, the Oscars took place in a ceremony with no big surprises, no big thrills and no huge iconic moments... but it got some all timers as winners:   Cillian Murphy 's win for   Oppenheimer  still amazes me (such an internal and subtle performance getting the gold),   The Zone of Interest   in Best Sound (chilling and perfectly balanced work),   Poor Things  in Best Costume Design and Best Production Design and   The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar   for Best Live Action Short Film (marking   Wes Anderson 's first Oscar win of his career). On the other hand, I felt sad for   Lily Gladstone   not winning Best Actress for   Killers of the Flower Moon  (such a soulful devastating performance), but   Emma Stone   was also a very worthy winner for playing the charismatic Bella Baxter in   Poor Things . In a night  Oppenheimer  won big (and its Summer "nemesis"  Barbie  only t...

  Javier Bardem, Florence Pugh, Josh Brolin, Dave Bautista, Souheila Yacoub, Christopher Walken, Stellan Skarsgård,  Charlotte Rampling  and  Léa Seydoux Dune  (2021) was a very good movie, which featured fantastic visual and technical aspects - a movie meant to be admired rather than fully lived mostly because of the "half plotline" from the source material - but then you understand it was all about setting the plot foundations for the cinematic spectacle of  Dune: Part Two . It's a movie that will please both fans and non-fans of the first film. In fact, I'm grateful I live in the same time it was made because it allowed me to experience it on a theatre. I was immersed, astonished and utterly marveled with this one! Dune: Part Two  starts at the exact same place and time where it left us in 2021's film and it wastes no time presenting context to the audience. In fact,  Part Two  is way more narrative-driven, but it never feels overwhel...