The 2016 Oscar Nominations Are In, Make Of Them What You Will

At this point it’s cliché to say I don’t care about the Oscars. I obviously pay attention in an academic way—it’s my job, after all—and for spectacle’s sake, but that’s about as far as my interest really goes. The nominations for this year came out and they play out as you expect.

Movie Review: 'The Revenant' Is Savage And Stunning

The Revenant, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s follow-up to last year’s Oscar-winning Birdman, is many things: a brutal revenge tale, a quest for justice, an allegorical frontier survival story. As grim and visceral and punishing to watch as the film is, another team up between Inarritu and celebrated cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, it’s a stunning sight to behold. Full of dedicated, ho-holds-barred performances, especially from Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy, The Revenant is a grueling, demanding, frontier Apocalypse Now.

'The Revenant' Has A New Trailer, And Yes, It Still Looks Incredible

While I like Birdman okay—I certainly don’t worship it as a game-changing cinematic revelation like some, nor do I think it is total pretentious garbage like others; the truth, for me anyway, lies somewhere in the middle—I’m 100%, totally and completely on board with director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s next film, the old-timey revenge western The Revenant. And as if I needed another reason to drool over this picture, there’s a brand new trailer out, and yes, it still looks amazing.

Goddamn 'The Revenant' Trailer Is Stunning

The Revenant, not to be confused with the recent horror-comedy of the same name, has prestige written all over it. Last year’s Oscar-winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu (Birdman) is back, the film stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy, and was lensed by all-star DP Emmanuel Lubezki (Gravity, Children of Men, and too many to name). But it also looks fucking awesome, a fact clearly on display in the first teaser trailer.