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Budapest, Hungary is enjoying the limelight for a moment in popular American culture thanks to filmmaker Wes Anderson and musician George Ezra.

Okay, so there was a fair amount of disappointment around the 2015 Academy Award nominations. Everything was not awesome for ‘The Lego Movie,’ robbed of a Best Animated Movie nod, and David Oyelowo’s dreams of a Best Actor nomination vanished when Steve Carell and Bradley Cooper’s names were mentioned instead. ‘Force Majeure’ got snubbed for a Best Foreign Language Film nomination and ‘Selma’’s Ava Duvernay was robbed in the Best Director Category. I just keep looking at the list of nominations and playing “Sad Trombone” over and over again. It’s basically the official theme song of the 2015 Academy Awards.

Saturday night my boyfriend treated me to dinner and a movie, The Grand Budapest Hotel. While most moviegoers were headed to see Captain America, we decided to wait for the crowds to die down and see Wes Anderson's latest flick.