Quick:  Name the three previous Best Picture Oscar winners. While you’re “um”ing and “er”ing trying to remember, I’ll bet when someone asks, “Who won Best Picture the year ‘La La Land’ came out?”, you’ll remember it was...

  Dan Walker on Film       Director: Damien Chazelle (“Whiplash”) Main Cast: Ryan Gosling (“Lars and the Real Girl”, “Drive”, “The Big Short”) Emma Stone (“The Help”, “Birdman”, “Irrational Man”) Running Time:  128 Minutes ____________________________________________________________________________...

Director: Damien Chazelle (This is his second feature.  I never saw his first.) Main Cast: Miles Teller (This is the first movie I’ve seen him in.) J.K. Simmons (“The Cider House Rules”, “Juno”, “Burn After Reading”) Paul...