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State of the Oscar race: Best Picture  slash  slash  In movie news: A  Star Wars' shakeup  
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clapper board  Happy Wednesday!  
Today I’m continuing this week’s theme of dystopian movies  globe showing Americas  with an action movie by South Korean  
director Bong Joon ho.  
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Also, I give you an update on this year’s Oscar race and tell you about a shakeup in the Star Wars  
franchise.  
Okay, here’s day 2️⃣.  
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Today’s movie: Snowpiercer  
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What it’s about: After humanity is eradicated by a failed experiment to counteract climate change,  
the last remaining survivors are forced to live on an infinitely running train called Snowpiercer.  
Two decades later, an entire class system has emerged but Curtis Everett (Chris Evans) and the rest  
of the passengers in the rear of the train are ready to revolt.  
Why you should watch it: The world that Bong Joon ho creates for Snowpiercer is wonderfully strange  
and oddly specific.  
He thought through every single detail of what his post apocalyptic train  
society would look like and it’s easy to lose yourself in that.  
What makes the movie truly great is  
the action.  
Each setpiece is different from the last   different environments, different challenges  
and they all progress in a satisfyingly linear fashion.  
As far as post apocalyptic action movies  
go, this is one of the best.  
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Fun fact: Bong Joon ho wrote Tilda Swinton’s role with John C. Rilley in mind.  
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role for Swinton, he intentionally kept the masculine pronouns in the script to make the  
character’s gender fluid.  
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State of the Oscar race: Best Picture  
I always tell people I was an Oscar nut before I fell in love with movies.  
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going to give you an update on the Oscar race.  
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Unlike most years, we’ve yet to see a true frontrunner emerge in the race for Best Picture.  
However, it looks like it’s shaping up to be a battle between industry veterans Martin Scorsese (  
The Irishman) and Quentin Tarantino (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood).  
Tarantino has never won Best Picture, which might give him the edge.  
But watch out for Bong  
Joon ho’s Parasite, which has taken the industry (and audiences) by storm.  
If it wins, it will be  
the first movie not in English to win after Roma almost pulled it off last year   thanks, Green  
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The frontrunners: The Irishman, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Marriage Story, Parasite  
Other contenders: Jojo Rabbit, 1917, Little Women, Ford v.  
Ferrari, Joker, The Farewell  
Dark horses: Dark Waters, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Bombshell, Waves  
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In movie news: D and D are out of Star Wars  waving hand  
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Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D dot B. Weiss can’t seem to get their happy ending.  
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been more than a year and half since it was announced the duo would helm the first Star Wars movie  
in 2022 after The Rise of Skywalker, which premieres later this year.  
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However, they’re now bowing  
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D and D inked a five year, $250 million development deal with Netflix that would explain their packed  
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They join a loooonngg list of directors who have been fired or dropped out of Star Wars projects  
Josh Trank, Colin Trevorrow, Phil Lord  and  Christopher Miller  
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Last month, MCU mastermind Kevin Feige was  
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My take: Based on the last two seasons of Game of Thrones, this is probably a good thing for Star  
Wars.  
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