 Hello Awards Circuit! The Emmys are right around the corner and we thought it might be fun to break from a traditional article/recap of the nominees and do a chat in live blog form. Each entry will cover a particular section of the nominated field (ie. Drama, Comedy, Reality TV, TV Miniseries or Moive). This weeks chat will focus on the TV Miniseries or Movie category that sees many Hollywood heavyweights battling it out in long form.
OUTSTANDING TV MINISERIES OR MOVIE
American Horror Story
Game Change
Hatfields & McCoys
Hemingway and Gellhorn
Luther
Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia
Terence: I don’t know what your opinion of the nominees is, but this is perhaps the strongest field we’ve had in a while.
Joseph: I concur. I believe any of the nominated series could potentially win, but I pray it’s not the disappointing, thinly-plotted Hemingway & Gelhorn. I’m rooting for Game Change, just because I know American Horror Story will more than likely be nominated next year and the year after and the year after…
Terence: Yeah you’re right about Hemingway & Gelhorn seeming like the weakest in this field. I LOVED American Horror Story this season, although I think it’s committing slight category fraud (no matter what the Emmy Committee says!) But I have a confession to make…
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 “Why should I be a footnote to someone else’s life” – Martha Gellhorn.
Thanks to Nicole Kidman’s headstrong, passionate, and balls-to-the-wall performance as famed war correspondent, Martha Gellhorn — more recognized in history as the third wife of Ernest Hemingway — I doubt Gellhorn will ever be regarded as a footnote again. The title of HBO Film’s newest made-for-TV movie is incredibly deceptive, but perhaps purposefully so. We expect both Hemingway and Gellhorn to equally be front and center in this biopic of sorts, but it’s Gellhorn who fills up two thirds of on-screen time. Therefore, a title such as Gellhorn & Hemingway, or just Gellhorn, would have been more appropriate if we’re speaking strictly about which actor/character was featured more prominently. In fact, Nicole Kidman’s revelatory portrayal of Gellhorn is so wonderfully perfect and convincing that I can almost forgive director Philip Kaufman’s sloppily executed war biopic. To add bigger insult to injury, Clive Owen brings forth an uninteresting, drunkard, plight of a man with his role as Hemingway, making him seem more of a James Bond-esque anti-hero that met too many shaken, not stirred martinis he lost battle after battle with. Those looking for a Clive Owen comeback might be disappointed in Clive’s approach to the enigma that is Ernest Hemingway. Corey Stoll, as invisible as his performance may have been in Midnight in Paris, does a finer job illuminating Hemingway’s brilliance underneath an anchoring psychosis. Having never read or heard of Ernest Hemingway, one may not comprehend the legendary status surrounding the 20th century’s most prolific writer if you only had Clive Owen’s portrayal to go by. Hemingway may be surrounded by various intellectuals in Hemingway & Gellhorn, but neither Kauffman nor Owen seem to care about Hemingway’s own intelligence factor. Brilliance may be within Hemingway, but to an audience viewing Hemingway & Gellhorn, it remains ever illusive. Read more on TV Review: Hemingway & Gellhorn (**½)…
 Director David Schwimmer (yes, Ross from Friends) takes a subject tailor made for a crummy Lifetime Original Movie and manages to make a compelling actors showcase out of it with his new film Trust. Yes, the cautionary tale about the damage that pedophilia and internet predators can cause to a tight knit family is nothing new, but Schwimmer manages to still make it feel important. He seems to be an actor’s director, and here he gets a brilliant performance from young Liana Liberato (a top 5 performance so far this year) as well as very strong work from Clive Owen and typically solid work from Catherine Keener. The script may be a bit on the nose at times, but the direction is confident and tender, making the film powerful and difficult to watch at certain points. It’s far from a perfect flick, but the movie definitely gets a recommendation from me. Read more on Trust (***)…
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Hello Awards Circuit! The Emmys are right around the corner and we thought it might be fun to break from a traditional article/recap of the nominees and do a chat in live blog form. Each entry will cover a particular section of the nominated field (ie. Drama, Comedy, Reality TV, TV Miniseries or Moive). This weeks chat will focus on the TV Miniseries or Movie category that sees many Hollywood heavyweights battling it out in long form.
