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I've already sang the praises of recently overdue veterans, Christopher Nolan and Paul Thomas Anderson, by creating their respective top five lists. As I'm writing this, we're on the eve of the upcoming Fall festival season, where we'll be seeing upcoming award contenders rise and fall. But as we've seen every year, not all the narratives we build up or predict to happen will occur. Anyone remember when certain pundits thought Wicked: For Good would be the next Return of the

"I think I'm getting a divorce. What tipped me off was that I'm living in an apartment on my own." After coming off the heels of remaking A Star is Born for a modern audience and trying his hand at making a biopic on Leonard Bernstein's life with Maestro, Bradley Cooper brought us his third film with Is This Thing On? last year. It premiered as the closing film of the 63rd New York Film Festival, where it got rave reviews. Being a fan of Cooper's first two films and having an