Well done: Subway vigilantes free to ride again
Forty years ago there was the Subway Vigilante. And no subway rider then would’ve found Marine Daniel Penny guilty in the chokehold death of a frightening threatening hopped up — should’ve been locked up — bad guy. Where were cops? Good Samaritans? We’re to let a man carve up citizens who are sitting quietly minding their business?
Attorney Barry Slotnick won the case for Bernie Goetz in his world famous Page One case. The sentence then was and now is: well done.
Review is in: awards set
IT’s pain in the behind season. Crabgrass awards are upon us again. I haven’t been this excited since that Boy Scout in my seventh-grade gym class grabbed me. I wouldn’t have minded even then, but he didn’t know how to play jacks.
First of them, born 1909, is National Board of Review. Its president, Annie Schulhof. Ceremony to be held Jan. 7, Cipriani 42nd Street.
Winners are already known. Best picture: “Wicked.” Its best director Jon M. Chu. Best actor for “Queer” is Daniel Craig. Best actress for “Babygirl” is Nicole Kidman.
Supporting actor — Kieran Culkin in “A Real Pain.” Supporting actress — Elle Fanning in “A Complete Unknown.” Best ensemble: “Conclave.” Breakthrough performance — Mikey Madison in “Anora.” Best directorial debut: India Donaldson, “Good One.”
Best documentary: “Sugarcane.” Best int’l film: “The Seed of the Sacred Fig.” Animated feature: “Flow.”
Best original screenplay: “Hard Truths,” Mike Leigh. Best adapted screenplay: Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar, “Sing Sing.”
Spotlight award (whatever that is) goes to Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande for “Wicked.” Freedom of Expression Award: “No Other Land.”
Stunt artistry goes to “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.” And for cinematography it’s Jarin Blaschke for “Nosferatu.”
Top 10 films overall: “Anora,” “Babygirl,” “A Complete Unknown,” “Conclave,” “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” “Gladiator II,” “Juror #2,” “Queer,” “A Real Pain” and “Sing Sing.”
Top 10 independent films: “Bird,” “A Different Man,” “Didi,” “Ghostlight,” “Good One,” “Hard Truths,” “His Three Daughters,” “Love Lies Bleeding,” “My Old Ass” and “Thelma.”
Top five international films: “All We Imagine as Light,” “The Girl With the Needle,” “I’m Still Here,” “Santosh” and “Universal Language.”
Top five documentaries: “Black Box Diaries,” “Dahomey,” “Look Into My Eyes,” “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story” and “Will & Harper.”
Don’t know what to tell you. Last great movie I remember seeing was “The Jazz Singer” with Al Jolson.
Gold rushes in
More movies. Plus TV. Now comes Golden Globe nominations pawing at silver screens and small ones. It’s “Wicked,” of course, dragged from Broadway to London to Hollywood. Frenchie “Emilia Pérez,” with Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldana, got greedy with 10 nominations.
More: The Golden Globes Foundation, like everyone else, continues to say “yes, chef!” to “The Bear” and its culinary eye candy Jeremy Allen White.
Also nominated something your chiropractor might be into: “Squid Game.” Awards come Jan. 5, in LA.
