OK, in non-Olympics news, if any of you have not seen 'A Single Man', GO SEE IT!!! NOW ( Read more... )

OK, so I'm terribly out of the movie loop and haven't seen nearly as many of the nominated films this year as I'd have liked, but I still have to post the annual Oscar nom list. My feelings in italics after each category. Some categories skipped for boringness or lack of caring.

Performance by an actor in a leading roleRichard Jenkins in "The ( Read more... )

Hollywood deal could lead to a happy ending in time for Oscars.

Remember when you were little and you used to not just cross your index and middle fingers, but proceed to cross all your fingers over each other on both hands so you had two stumps of crossed fingers?

Yeah.

I've found a new game to play. Time suck ahoy!

It's Invisibles at FilmWise.

Basically, they take caps from movies and remove the people from them, so it's just the clothes and positions and settings to help you guess.

Some are easy, like this one from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix:


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I've been all geekily excited for Sweeney Todd for months now, so I jumped at the chance for an advance screening last night (to which I duly invited aaaaaames, since she loves the Depp longtime ( Read more... )

Go see this movie. It's endearing and sweet and not sappy and really well written and REALLY funny ( Read more... )

I went to see Elizabeth: The Golden Age last night. I'm reviewing here, but I won't include anything spoilerish, since I know probably almost all of you reading this want to see this movie ( Read more... )

And the faux_teak Oscars go to:

Best Dressed:
Cate Blanchett

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They're out ( Read more... )

As a sort of follow up to aaaaaames's post of a few weeks ago [it's f-locked fyi], I saw An Inconvenient Truth yesterday, and now, I also care about global warming ( Read more... )