No Oscar season will ever be stranger than this one. It comes after a year in which they locked down most of the theaters and studios pulled their top contenders. But since when are the Academy Awards only about one year?
"He's broken in many ways because what he doesn't realize is that it's all gotta start from within," Jude Law says of his 'Nest' character's drive for success.
Such films as 'Boys in the Band,' 'Ammonite,' 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' and others balance historical accuracy with new stories that dodge tired tropes.
Daniel Loedel's ghostly debut novel, "Hades, Argentina," features an exiled resistance fighter who revisits crimes, including his own, in Buenos Aires.