December is a crazy month for all of us, what with Christmas and all. But for movie critics, it’s particularly nuts. It’s awards season after all, when studios stick their best Oscar hopefuls under the tree in the hopes that they’ll unwrap an Oscar or two in a few months. Moreover, Christmas is thought to be one of the best times of year to build a blockbuster: Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings franchises built castles made of money between Thanksgiving and Christmas, which explains why little-seen prestige dramas like Foxcatcher are playing right next door to such punctuation-rich titans as The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1.
It’s the closest these two genres–the small, artsy indie flick and the big-budget blockbuster–ever meet, really. Except, of course, on YouTube.
And two worlds just smacked into each other, causing a grave disturbance in the Force …
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