Watched Conclave tonight. It’s free on Peacock if you have it.
Excellent performances and cinematography.
Brutalist and Anora are next on my list to see want to see Brutalist in theater for sure.
Saw A Complete Unknown in theater last week and loved it. Hope the rest of the nominees are as enjoyable as the ones I’ve seen so far (saw Dune II back when it came out).
One of the better years in recent memory for nominated films for me so far.
I guess it bears repeating that I was the founding member and first president of my law school's Federalist Society, was called Alex P. Keaton by my AP History teacher, and regularly argued with my Con Law professor over jurisprudential matters (he was extremely liberal and I tended to follow Hugo Black's views on the Bill of Rights--Black was considered liberal in his time but he was a originalist/textualist).
They do a lot of damage in a lot of ways and will do things for the actual problems we face as a country (but not in a good way):
Removing restrictions and increasing permitting on O&G development on public lands
Kneecapping wind energy by limiting future development on public lands (while wind energy is trending cheaper than coal, e.g.)
Giving Leon an unfair advantage over his competitors shifting into the EV market by attempting to impound Congressionally appropriated tax credits and incentives to the legacy auto industry (as well as start-ups).
Creating uncertainty generally across all sorts of industries and businesses by undoing years of regulatory programs (this goes both ways, BTW)
Generally attempting to impose by executive FIAT matters exclusively within the power of the legislature.
etc.,
etc.