Articles tagged with: The Oscars
I wanted to like August, Osage County more than I did — and I did like it fairly well, considering — because of Tracy Letts.
…In which we braid each other’s hair, eat tons and tons of candy, and debate whether Brad has any idea where anyone’s rosebud is and/or what to do with it. Chat goes live at 7:45 …
I’ve done worse — but with 50 of the nominees under my belt, I should have done better.
The scorecard is below.
Best Picture: wrong
I really thought they’d try to split the baby between Avatar and The …
Another one for the “I added it to my Netflix queue years ago and have no memory of why” file, I sat down to Colors expecting to have to endure it. For one thing, Sean …
I waited to watch The Wrestler, because I did want to see it right when it came out, but the press surrounding Mickey Rourke’s performance quickly grew to a height that dwarfed the film itself …
It’s a very good movie; it’s not a great movie. Conventional wisdom is that Scorsese got the Oscar for The Departed that he’d actually earned for GoodFellas (or Raging Bull); I can accept that, and …
Why? Why do I do this to myself? Every year I gnash my teeth at all the Oscars hype, and every year I vow to rent a movie instead of watching the Fashion Disaster Ego …
I can’t wait until the Academy Awards. More precisely, I can’t wait until the Academy Awards end. If I have to see one more “news” item on who plans to wear what designer’s dress to …
