Film Review - Whiplash

Whiplash is not weird. Or maybe it still is but I have moved the goalposts for weird after Birdman. 

I haven't seen Mark Ruffalo's Foxcatcher performance yet so I may be slightly premature but at the minute J.K.Simmons can be fairly confidently writing his Oscar acceptance speech. The only way he isn't getting Best Supporting Actor is if Academy voters consider him to be the main character and dismiss Miles Teller as supporting and providing a narration role.

Simmons has been a bit part in everything before this. The closest he has been to a memorable role was playing the overbearing editor JJ Jameson in the Toby Maguire Spiderman series.