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Say Anything Is The Sure Thing’s Lame Younger Brother
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Mar 17, 2026
At this year’s Oscars, Daphne Zuniga and John Cusack were standing together to pay honor to Rob Reiner for his unforgettable but unappreciated second film, The Sure Thing (1985). The main character, Gib (John Cusack), immediately became the romantic ideal of this writer as an eleven-year-old, read more
Wallace Got an Oscar
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Mar 15, 2026
Well, some good choices, some bad in this year’s Oscars. But I’m going to focus on the fact that Michael B. Jordan got an Oscar. It wasn’t his best performance. But he’s deserved awards since Wallace. Not a single Emmy for any of that stunning cast of The Wire. But at least t read more
Oscar Noms 2025: Gems & Duds
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Mar 14, 2026
Hamnet. Can I say a performance like Jessie Buckley’s is good if it’s just one misery scene after another? I don’t know these characters enough to feel invested in them. The pacing is all wrong. I looked at my watch countless times. What were the slow-mo shots of trees and berries for? I didn’t read more
100 Years Later, Still Scary: Dr. Caligari
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Nov 11, 2025
A friend and I both have this habit of picking up other people’s stray books, starting to read, and then forgetting where we are. One day, that friend picked up mine, Don DeLillo’s White Noise. I waited for her reaction, wondering if she’d be as overcome by it as I had been. After a pause in reading read more
Escaping Out of the Past (1947)
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Sep 1, 2025
Spoilers coming. Oh Jeff, I get why you fell for Kathie (Jane Greer). That sexy voice, her air of mystery, those all-white get-ups, vacation drinks, and her nonchalant response to your chase. You really had no hope, did you? Especially once she started toweling you off from the rain. Yeah, you were read more
A Weeper for Those Who Love Jerks
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on May 13, 2025
Back Street (1932), directed by John Stahl, announces itself early on as belonging in the wronged illicit woman tearjerker canon. Charming Ray (Irene Dunne) enjoys befriending traveling salesmen at a beer hall in Cincinnati before the turn of the twentieth century, but all they do in return is try t read more
Thank You, Academy, for Not Infuriating Me
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Mar 2, 2025
Tonight I am not mad after the Oscars. I do not feel compelled to read movie reviews that share my negative view of the winner. I do not feel the need to read anything. I feel at peace. Tonight after the first Oscars in some time, I can actually sleep. I liked Anora. I loved Flow. While I didn̵ read more
Challengers (2024) Is a Bad Movie
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Jan 23, 2025
Sometimes you see an Oscars list, and you’re happy to see not what IS on it, but what isn’t. Some idealistic prognosticators theorized that this buzzy little tennis film called Challengers (2024) would get a bid. After all, its music had won a Golden Globe. The only thing more annoying t read more
Laura (1944): Haunted by Dopes
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Nov 11, 2024
**Spoilers coming** Laura is a curious film. I always think of it as the male gaze on steroids, as we know so little of the heroine apart from the versions we get from the men who surround her: the portrait artist, the boyfriend, the best friend and the cop. All are obsessed with her, and all want t read more
Silly Scenes: Joe vs. the Volcano
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Nov 4, 2024
Today I’m starting a new series for this blog for all of us who haven’t slept in months and fear we won’t for some time: Gloriously Silly Scenes. We all need some sweetness and light right now, and luckily for all of you, I have been self-medicating on fluffy joy in movie form sinc read more
Great Femme Fatales: Amy of Gone Girl
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Aug 8, 2024
Join us for our final femme fatale of the season: Amy from Gone Girl! read more
Glenn Close’s Most Stunning Role
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Jul 25, 2024
Episode 2 of the femme fatales season of Nobody Knows Anything is up!! Dangerous Liaisons, a film that pits the dueling wits of Glenn Close and John Malkovitch against each other in a fight over love and power . . . . and also, Keanu Reeves is there, being strangely perfect in eighteenth-century dre read more
Chatting about Leave Her to Heaven
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Jul 11, 2024
My new podcast season on femme fatales with Brian Wilkins and Michael Gutierrez releases today, and we begin with one of my favorite films, Leave Her to Heaven. We chat about the strange canoe launch that begins the film, Tierney’s impossible beauty, the unfathomable hero–who wanted to m read more
Femme Fatales Podcast Series….
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Jul 1, 2024
Nobody Knows Anything, returning soon! read more
Van Heflin’s Surprising First Role
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on May 19, 2024
The first time you see Van Heflin (Lord Gerald Waring Gaythorne) in A Woman Rebels (1936), his debut role, you do a double take. I had to look closer, to make sure it was indeed Van Heflin and not Leslie Howard. A word I never thought I’d apply to him is slight. He’s quite slender in it read more
Oscar Tribute: The Noms They Got Right
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Mar 10, 2024
I’ve ranted about the films I didn’t watch–and didn’t want to–but three of the films nominated for Oscars this year are great films. NO spoilers. American Fiction. Clever, funny, and original, this satire/dramedy delivers genuine laughs while also addressing heartbreak. read more
Oscar Rant, Part 3: Flower Moon’s Many Missteps
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Mar 4, 2024
Spoilers–but not as many as Scorsese’s I knew I would struggle to warm to Martin Scorsese’s interpretation of a well-loved book. Killers of the Flower Moon is a heartbreaking, fascinating page turner. And it is a history book. I stayed up till 4 am to finish it. What I didn’t read more
Oscar Rant, Part II: Barbie
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Feb 26, 2024
I walked into Barbie with sky-high expectations. I had been tracking the career of its co-screenwriter (and Greta Gerwig’s spouse) Noah Baumbach since 1995’s Kicking and Screaming played on my VCR in college. My roommates and I–and my sister–had fallen deeply and completely i read more
My Oscar Rant, Part 1: Snark
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Feb 19, 2024
It’s that time again–my chance to rant about the films that shouldn’t have been nominated and moan about better films that weren’t. Next time, I’ll discuss Oscar nominees I loved or at least liked. But for this post, I’m going to embrace the snark. Past Lives. If read more
The 10 Funniest Xmas Movies
Cary Grant Won't Eat You Posted by Judy on Dec 22, 2023
In no particular order except for #1, my favorite to rewatch: 1. The Ref (1994). The non-sentimental xmas movie I love most. The real question is who is the funniest here: Denis Leary, who has taken a family hostage? Judy Davis and Kevin Spacey, as The War-of-the-Roses-worthy combatants who make us read more