Every year I try to watch all the major award contender films before the Oscars come around.  I like to have an informed opinion before I pronounce awards shows horse shit.  Usually in my experience there are one or two gems, a whole lot of prestige stuff that is by the numbers and nothing particularly special but is very awards baity and the sort of thing the Oscars will nominate (a few years ago and now I can’t remember who, but an actual Oscar winning director said that if the Academy was fair then the Conjuring would have been nominated for best director because it was the best directed film of the year.  But that isn’t the kind of movie that gets nominated).  Anyway, this is a long way of saying most years this leads to at least one Jessica Chastain performance and it isn’t an overstatement to say that is one of the highlights of each year.  Not because I am attracted to her but because even if the movie she is in is one of those by the numbers cut and paste December prestige films her performance is always among the best I will see that year.  I can think of a number of movies in the past couple of years that were just ok but had me transfixed because she is so remarkable.  So boy was I disappointed when I realized this morning I have no Chastain performance to look forward to.  She was really only in one movie this year that would be considered and it was a bit of a flop.  I will get to it eventually but I didn’t even know it had ever come out because it came and went that quickly.  I honestly feel robbed.  Now I am worried we won’t get a lot of Jessica Chastain on the red carpet because it occurs to me I haven’t seen a lot of Jessica Chastain on the red carpet yet this awards season and good God, it’s like 2017 is really just out to destroy every ounce of hope we have.  Well fuck you, I am posting her anyway.  And I’m going to watch Miss Sloane just to spite whatever malicious force has this year set up the way it is.  Because Jessica Chastain is wonderful and I love watching her work.  Today I want to fuck Jessica Chastain.