Appetite For Distraction

Christmas is coming early, and not a second too soon, as Netflix unwraps the greatest gift of all – Love Actually

Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson play unfaithful husband and stoic wife in Love Actually

I’ve decided that the next Oscars should just be two or maybe three hours dedicated to Emma Thompson’s performance in Love Actually. It’s about time. Harvey Weinstein has made it so Hollywood is going to find it difficult to celebrate much of anything on the biggest night of the year for The Movies, so let’s just hand the evening over to Emma and be done with it. She deserves it. That simple, gut-wrenching, ...