re: Awesome weekend of movies: Avengers, Whiplash & Still Alice (Whiplash spoilers)

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And in the end, even though Simmons was livid on stage, he at least appreciated the product that Miles was putting during the show, which is why he gave him the nod of approval (so to speak) and kept going.

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I don't think he just gave him the nod, but at the very end when it cut to his eyes, I went away thinking Simmons smiled at him. I think Simmons was going to be "livid" until he got his Bird.

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I'll take a quick review of Still Alice if you've got it. Wife wanted to rent this the other day but it sounded kinda meh to me. Worthy of a rental?

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It's a downer of a movie, but I think it's worth watching if for nothing else, Julianne Moore's performance. She is spectacular in it.

I also enjoyed the complexity of Baldwin as her husband and how he handled the situation.