The ballots for nominations to The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, AKA ‘The Academy’, are due January 8th, so all the members have been bingeing on the so- called ‘screeners’, the DVD’s that have been pouring in over the last few weeks. Being a dutiful member of the Academy, I’ve been popping them in the DVD player like slides in a carousel, along with the odd trip to the theater – so here goes part 2: ­Sicario – this is a truly suspenseful movie about a DEA agen

Well, it’s that time of year – as I’ve mentioned before, the Hollywood studios don’t trust the 6000 members of the Motion Picture Academy to remember what they had for lunch last week, never mind what movies they watched last summer, so they hold the so-called ‘nomination–worthy’ films until November or December (actually, to qualify for the Academy Awards, a film has to play for one week in both New York City and Los Angeles, so some films will have a so­called ‘Academy rele