September 5 is an interesting movie from the perspective of the sports broadcasters for ABC surrounding the events of September 5th, 1972.

Nominated only for original screenplay, it's not a heavy hitter or anything in the Oscar race, but it was an interesting movie, bringing up some questions like should they have been broadcasting the police's location, and double checking your sources, but also the interesting and sinister way the German officials were trying to cover things up

They used a lot of archived footage to build the story around, which was really grainy and hard to see on the big screen compared to how people had seen it but wow, what a record to have, the first terrorist attack ever broadcast

Screenplay is good, I mean, it was a gripping enough story, well acted, but it's not going to win.

Nor should it.

What they were super effective at was the building of the tension, just like everyone was watching kind of helplessly, so too were the audience.

(I knew how it was going to end but you know, that's fine. It's a historical movie after all)

Let's talk about who should win - The Brutalist.

Encompassing and engrossing, it's nominated for 10 Oscars this season and deserves every last one of them.

I'm even torn on the score up against The Wild Robot as to which one was better.

For a movie whose runtime is getting close to four hours, usually that tends to be a slog, there tends to be padding and things where you're like well I don't know, that could have been shortened

That was not the case here.

Every single scene was riveting and both mom and I could not look away at all.

I also praise it on its subtlety, showing the effects of severe trauma without spelling out that's what it is, but also a nod to how people dealt with it back then which was just to keep on going

In the second act with another deeply traumatic event happening to Laslo, he really starts to unravel at that point and you just feel bad for him. There is fantastic acting in this film all around. The people that deserve your disdain really deserve it and yet as a protagonist Laslo is really complicated. There's things he does that you don't like

And yet you're still kind of rooting for him in a way.

(I didn't like his buildings but that's not the point of the film )

But I thought the stories behind what he was doing was super interesting

It's a really gritty look at what an immigrant story can be, and the struggles that come before any triumphs. It's really, really good, and it's our frontrunner for Best Picture.

Tomorrow we're picking up The Seed of the Sacred Fig & Sing Sing