#Movies for grownups awards

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FRED HECHINGER & JUNE SQUIBB at the AARP Movies For Grownups Awards 2025

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Entertainment To-Do List: Week of 2/17/23

Billy Crudup doing the Apple thing (CREDIT: Apple TV+) Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out. Movies –Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania –Emily (Theaters) –Marlowe (Theaters) – Liam Neeson plays Philip Marlowe. -Oscar Nominated Shorts (Theaters) –Return to Seoul (Theaters) TV -AARP’s Movies for…

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Austin gives an intro speech for Baz Luhrmann who won Best Director at the 2023 AARP 21st Annual Movies for Grownups Awards 😊

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319 - Bend It Like Beckham (Patreon Selects)

We have another episode from one of our beloved sponsor tier patrons from Patreon, this time returning us to our beloved movie year 2003! After becoming a 2002 British megahit, Bend It Like Beckham launched in the US at Sundance before becoming an early 2003 summer crowdpleaser. Directed by Gurinder Chadha, the film follows Jess (Parminder Nagra) as she secretly joins a soccer team against the wishes of her traditional Indian family. With nominations from the WGA and the Golden Globes, Bend It Like Beckham ultimately did not manage an Oscar nomination for its upbeat look at teenage womanhood.

This episode, we talk about Fox Searchlight's 2003 lineup and 28 Days Later as a fellow UK crossover hit. We also discuss the film's shoehorned romantic subplot, Parminder Agra's run of prominent television roles, and costar Keira Knightley's trio of breakthrough 2003 roles.

Topics also include international nominee Lagaan, the film's soundtrack, and sports movies.

The 2003 Academy Awards

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2025 AARP MOVIES FOR GROWNUPS AWARDS

Demi Moore | Oscar de la Renta dress

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Glen Powell | AARP Movies For Grownups Awards (2023)

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Awards Season 2022-23: BAFTA Winners and Awards Round-Up 2/20

A film I’d never heard of – but at least one awards group really loved it. The BAFTAs were today. And…they made things interesting. My breakdown of the nominees is here. Best Film: All Quiet on the Western Front Not entirely surprising. They threw nominations at this one wholesale. This certainly bodes well for the Oscars, although it’s missing key nominations – Director, Editing, or any…

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Boyd truly has the most beautiful smile and laugh in the entire universe! He's the cutest! I love him! ❤️🌟

via marcmalkin on IG "Boyd Holbrook tells me he worked with Jennifer Aniston the most on “The Morning Show.”

Boyd at AARP The Magazine's 23rd Annual Movies For Grownups Awards in Beverly Hills, CA (February 8, 2025)

also thank you to @chieko-pp for sharing this video on Twitter/X

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Boyd attends AARP's Annual Movies For Grownups Awards at the Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel on February 08, 2025 in Beverly Hills, California (from: gettyimages.com)

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This has been a really hard one to talk about. I'm always very ambivalent about mourning celebrities. I try to remember that I don't know these people, that what is really mourned by most of us is the person's ongoing work, which in the best cases has helped us understand ourselves and the world in which we live. Unavoidably, though, you can start to develop the sense that you know these people personally, which isn't true or even appropriate necessarily, I mean you have no idea whether you would even like someone you've only seen on a screen or received an autograph from; but at the same time, I don't know if you can really force yourself not to feel like the deceased celebrity is a dear friend you will never get to talk to again (the last time I tried and failed was the passing of Lux Interior). Maybe this is more forgivable, and also more inevitable, if you feel like you grew up with the person.

Of course this is all about ME now, but my mother (who also died from cancer) was an extremely hip, brilliant, funny individual who for whatever reason refused to form a relationship with me. This was pretty strange, because we liked a lot of the same things--B movies, old comics, all types of camp and kitsch--but when I liked those things, it was in poor taste and punishable by exile, whereas when she liked those things, it was evidence of her cultural genius. Before I make anybody too mad I should say that I'm being a little bit unfairly reductive just so I can get to the point, which is that one of the few things we could share was Pee-Wee's Playhouse. I didn't know anything about the show's more adult origins or the fact that Paul Reubens was sort of a performance artist, but I didn't have to. Pee-Wee's Playhouse was a feast for any child's senses: stylish, hilarious, and on some subliminal level, really sophisticated. I was clued into some of what was going on just because I watched it with my mom, who always laughed at Pee-Wee's winks and nudges to the hep parents in the audience. The show might have been my first encounter with the kind of anthropological humor favored by people like David Byrne and Laurie Anderson, artists who engage subversively with cliches, stereotypes, and other memetic parts of popular culture. In Pee-Wee's Playhouse, with its sharp, edgy cast and crew, kids like me were getting into fine art without even knowing it--which is possibly the best way to learn about art anyway.

In fact, on the other side of our house, I became obsessed with Gary Panter's incredible punk opus Jimbo In Paradise, a Dantesque comic book about an innocent young guy living in a dystopian future, where he is occasionally joined by guest stars such as Nancy and Hedorah. I was about 7 when I started reading Jimbo over and over again even though I could barely understand it, and I had no idea that Gary had pretty much designed Pee-Wee's Playhouse. I'm speaking about him so familiarly because I got to know him a little bit as a grownup. I remember Gary talking about how private Paul Reubens could be. He used to do this thing where he would accept a dinner invitation from anybody who asked, as sort of a stunt, but he had to stop doing it because people became so intrusive and entitled with him. Gary said that they'd be walking around in New York and when they saw an obvious Pee-Wee fan gearing up for an offensive, Paul Reubens would sort of transform into this totally different person, putting out an aura that let you know not to fuck with him. It's crazy-making to think that someone who was so protective of the boundary between his private and public selves had to suffer that ridiculous arrest, but it's heartening that most of society eventually grew the fuck up and forgot about it. It's also helpful to remember when he turned up later on the MTV Music Video Awards and started off by asking the audience, "HEARD ANY GOOD JOKES LATELY??"

I'm glad we got one more Pee-Wee special in the past several years, but I always wished that we would see Paul Reubens in more movies. He was such a cool actor, funny, convincing, and naturally charismatic. While people are cycling through their favorite roles of his, I want to point out that he had a great role on a recent HBO miniseries called Mosaic, an intense, engrossing crime drama that I definitely recommend if you have access. Maybe I'll rewatch it, too. In closing, here's a great story that I grabbed from Facebook that should warm everybody's heart, along with the heartbreaking statement (inappropriately cropped by Instagram of course) released upon the death of the very private Pee-Wee Herman. It makes you wish you could thank him in person, for everything. The best we can do is just remember him.

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FRED HECHINGER & JUNE SQUIBB on the AARP Red Carpet

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SHERYL LEE RALPH + LISA ANN WALTER 📷 AARP Movies For Grownups Awards (Jan 28, 2023)

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Beverly Hills, CA. 5th Feb, 2018. Saoirse Ronan arrives for AARP The Magazine's 17th Annual Movies For Grownups Awards, Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA

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294 - The Notebook

The May miniseries is over and we're kicking off June with a dose of movie monoculture with 2004's The Notebook. Adapted from the Nicholas Sparks romance novel, the film's journey to the screen attracted a range of huge Hollywood names from Steven Spielberg to Britney Spears. The tale of two lovers divided by class in the south, the film captured lightning in a bottle with Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams as the lovers and old school Hollywood legends James Garner and Gena Rowlands as their older versions facing dementia. Though Garner would see a SAG Supporting Actor nomination, the industry didn't recognize what would become a beloved classic.

This week, we talk about the film's double threat appeal between teens and their moms and how Gosling and McAdams recreated the film's iconic kiss at the MTV Movie Awards. We also talk about Gosling and McAdams' ascendant careers in the mid aughts, Joan Allen shouting "trash!", and the unmissable similarities between Sparks movie posters.

Topics also include Gosling at the box office, the THOB Conference agenda, and (naturally) the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards.

The 2004 Academy Awards

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2014 AARP MOVIES FOR GROWNUPS AWARDS

Naomi Watts | Givenchy Pre-Fall 2014 dress

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Austin Butler | AARP Movies For Grownups Awards (2023)