A Slumdog sweep or Harvey for the sneak attack?
After months of all the predicting, all the campaigning and all the other nonsense, it all ends on Sunday night. First-time Oscar show producers Bill Condon and Laurence Marks and first-time Oscar host, Hugh Jackman, have promised to put on a good show, but […]
Entries from February 2009
The Oscars: The Final Lap
February 21st, 2009 · No Comments
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Top Ten Albums of 2008 (2x) + Some Songs.
February 16th, 2009 · No Comments
–By Lennox723 and jonny
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Celebration 1939 at Midnight
February 16th, 2009 · No Comments
I’ve often wondered what it must have been like on a film set in the thirties. Film is still in its adolescence – sound was the game changer a decade earlier and color is just around the corner as a serious additive to filmmaking. And you’ve got these incredibly talented individuals who are coming to […]
Idol Worship: Column II
February 14th, 2009 · No Comments
American Idol is no stranger to the world of controversy and scandal and this season, still just four weeks old, is already proving to be no exception. Since November, when the NY Post leaked that former Geffen recording artist Joanna Pacitti had made it to Hollywood, the Internet has been abuzz with debate over whether […]
Tags: American Idol · Television
It Sucks that They Missed
February 1st, 2009 · No Comments
And now, for the more hysterical version of this column, we have the choices that AMPAS should’ve recognized, but didn’t. We don’t know why - sometimes the films weren’t on the radar, sometimes the choices were too obscure, but mostly, we just think it’s because they were stupid. After all, how can anyone (insert […]
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The Ones that Didn’t Suck: Mach Two
February 1st, 2009 · No Comments
It’s that time of year again. We spend the entire year actually forecasting the oscar race, investing far too much time and effort into something that we know we shouldn’t. We ride the emotional highs when a great film succeeds (Hello, Slumdog Millionaire), participate in the backlash when a film we don’t like dominates […]
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