Spotlight

Faith or anything more than the most general interest in the Oscars was lost long ago (Gwyneth Paltrow for a RomCom? Really guys).

Having said that I realise they pit people and films on to the world stage in a grand way and this is one of the reasons I am oh so happy to see Spotlight won. Because if ever there was a film of merit. And not just for the story it tells but for how it tells it. For showing all the complexity and mistakes and in-capacities of man-kind, even in the face of something so obviously deplorable.

This is an excellent film, which spares nobody, and it is brilliantly written, directed and acted.

Meet Your Opponent

Cultural weekend, family legacies

Inherited talent, father & son, senior and junior, Strauss' and Creeds.

As in Johann and Apollo/Adonis.

Saturday, via the High Museum, an organ concert at the First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta with organ master Jens Korndoerfer. I had never been to an organ concert, to the best of my memory.

Giuseppe now has a great desire to be an organ master's assistants to get to pull buttons all day.

The concert was rather wonderful and ended with well-received crowd pleasers by the Strauss father and son team. In any case note: the Radetzky March is constant joy.

And Sunday we got to celebrate another famed and loved father-son duo: the Creeds. Thank you Ryan Coogler for continuing a legacy that will never get old and will entertain me forever. Brilliant work of course Sly and Michael B. Jordan.

The Hateful Eight

No story spoiler alerts, suffice it to say: nothing new.