The characters have a very realistic flavor of authenticity and the Pakistani culture is accurately portrayed, which was unexpected. However, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the book “Riz” was engrossing enough to make me want to read all the way to the end in just one sitting. If the Golden Globes really wanted to cater to me specifically they would have nominated the excellent Possessor but it seems genre work is only notable on television.As an English teacher, I normally find myself squirming or taking mental notes of criticism whenever reading fiction, preferring to read academic journals. I would say his potential winning would turn me into the Joker but I’m realizing as I write this that I actually don’t care that much. Aaron Sorkin and his dialogue and his timeliness can go to Hell. I love and respect Fincher, but that love and respect is on pause as Mank threatens more worthy work. But Mank and The Trial of the Chicago 7, two films so immensely dull I could not bring myself to finish, those ones I fear have a chance. Promising Young Woman feels like more of a contender in Best Actress and Screenplay, in particular because the finished project as a film is rather artless.

Nomadland, a gorgeous and soft if politically toothless piece, deserves the gold more than its peers-it’s not even a competition, which sucks! Competition is good. Minari’s absence from the category is conspicuous and while there is little that I can add to what has been already said on the matter I do believe that it should win were the nominating system remotely just or sensical.

Many of the nominations this year as in years past are bought and paid for, sprinkled amidst the true contenders like legacy students at a liberal arts college.ĭespite knowing that there is nothing to seek from the impending show other than various levels of disappointment and disinterest-and honestly having watched very little of what’s on hand here-we are prepared not only to predict who will win but also speculate on who should and could win and who should have been nominated in the first place… Celebrities attend in droves, it seems, because the televised ceremony doubles as big, fancy, free party for themselves and their friends. This organization counts 87 members (none of whom are Black, as the Los Angeles Times recently revealed) who regularly accept lavish gifts from film studios and make their nominations accordingly. Long granted stature by their position as awards season’s true opener, the Globes are openly and famously run-this is not a secret, despite perennial indignance-by a deeply random assemblage of people known as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. It is a truth universally forgotten that the Golden Globes are not an awards body that should be taken seriously.

Riz by Charlie Flowers