This is the best time of year for celebrating movies because 1.) it's Oscar time and 2.) the Sundance Film Festival previews movies that could be Oscar nominees next year (e.g., past examples include Blue Valentine, Winter's Bone, etc.). (Notice I said celebrating movies. It's not actually a good time for movies with dreck like Underworld: the Awakening and Contraband coming out---Sorry, K. Becks.).
And the Sundance Film Festival does not disappoint. This year, once again, John Hawkes is getting buzz---this time for his performance in The Surrogate, about a man with polio who has a sex surrogate (Helen Hunt) deflower him. And P.S. Helen Hunt is apparently full frontal in the film. Yowza. Talk about as good as it gets!
Apparently, Hawkes got a standing ovation! Finally some young blond pip isn't stealing his spotlight.
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