Haley Bennett – This Had Oscar Buzz

The Devil All The Time: Tom Holland as Arvin Russell. Photo Cr. Glen Wilson/Netflix © 2020

Our annual Thanksgiving tradition means The Ankler’s Katey Rich is back! And this year, we’re got a stone cold bummer to go with the turkey! In 2020, while we were all stuck in our homes, Netflix delivered a lockdown crime saga hit with The Devil All the Time. Directed by Antonio Campos, the film follows several generations in rural America as their family history is engulfed in religion and murder between American wars. With a cast of famous young stars like Tom Holland and Robert Pattison, the film garnered strong reactions to its grim tale but no ultimate awards payoff.

This episode, we’re talking about Antonio Campos’ independent cinema rise and later television work. We also talk about Netflix in 2020, Holland balancing Spider-Man with other projects, and umm… what the hell is going on with Pattinson in this movie.

Topics also include accents, covid coping, and Thanksgiving gender binaries.

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The Girl on the Train will likely be remembered for following in the mold that Gone Girl had previously set for it, thanks to both books literary phenomenon status. However when it came time for a movie adaptation, The Girl on the Train chased that would-be spiritual predecessor’s formula without achieving its critical success. But what the film itself will be most remember for is much more unfortunate: it’s another key reminder that Emily Blunt still hasn’t landed an Oscar nomination.

Blunt headlines the twisty murder mystery that ultimately serves no one in its largely female ensemble. Though the actress was nominated at both SAG and BAFTA, her work didn’t make a Best Actress lineup that (as the results show) didn’t stop morphing until nomination morning. This episode, we look back at the film and novel’s more troublesome aspects, what it might take for Blunt to nab that elusive nomination, and the canonically correct way to answer the central question of Indecent Proposal.

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368 – The Devil All the Time (with Katey Rich!)

043 – The Girl on the Train