AMC Best Picture Showcase Day One
As is our custom , we visited the Best Picture Showcase to catch up on all the films nominated this year. Also as usual, we have already seen most of them so it is a revisit for some of these movies but each day of the showcase this year will feature a movie that is new to us. Phantom Thread was maybe the most divisive film my family seen this year. My daughter loved it and so did I. My wife hated it, she compared it to "The Tree of Life" a film that I personally also I hated. The film is extremely funny but also extremely tight and I mean that in a literal sense. Daniel Day Lewis' character is so tightly wound that he could fracture at any moment, he makes Samuel Jackson in "Unbreakable" look positively rubber like. I'm not sure if the film is supposed to be a comedy but it definitely played incredibly humorous. The story is hard do explain. Reynolds Woodcock is a dress designer at the highest level of passion who has difficulty relating to anything ...