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Alexa:  I loved Silver Linings Playbook when I first saw it back in 2012, but I could see it being a movie that wouldn’t hold up as well for me the second time around. Fortunately, I found the repeat viewing just as endearing. The tone of Silver Linings Playbook is complicated, jumping back and forth from charming romantic comedy to angst-ridden drama to somewhere in between, but somehow it works, thanks in large part to director/screenwriter David O. Russell’s deft handling of the material and a singularly talented cast. (However, as exceptional as Jennifer Lawrence is in this film, I still stand by my opinion that Jessica Chastain deserved the Best Actress trophy that year.) At its core, Silver Linings Playbook is about some damaged people coming to terms with their turbulent pasts and looking hopefully if tentatively toward the future, and how their relationships shape them in the best and worst of times. Early on in the film, Bradley Cooper’s character, after chucking ...

If you haven't kept up with Summer of Netflix thus far, never fear because you can simply join us for the 2nd half of July, we won't tell anybody. But even if you're joining us for the first time or you've religiously watched every movie on every day since the beginning, here's what you have to look forward to for the rest of July!

Welcome, friends, to Irrelevant But Awesome's coverage of the 85th Academy Awards. As you all can tell by the tag, I am Dr. Chris and I will be your wonderful host (my condolences to those that were expecting me to have a bunch of funny voices like Seth MacFarlane, I also don't do Jazz). This is probably going to be quite a long post just simply with predictions so I'm planning on just talking about the major awards and speaking only, for the most part, to the movies I've actually seen. Best Picture: Amour - One of the films I haven't seen but mostly due to my own ignorance and only watching what interested me. Obviously this will probably win Best Foreign Film because it's the only foreign language movie in this category. From what I understand it's about an elderly couple coping with declining health, specifically that of the wife, who suffers a stroke. Doesn't sound like a bad movie but it doesn't sound too uplifting either...or like it...