Avatar versus The Hurt Locker. I guess, if you read the press and the blogs and Twitter feeds and the like leading up to Sunday's Academy Awards, that is what the Best Picture category for the 82nd Oscars is coming down to. Even after the Academy expanded the field to 10, the race is still down to only two films (grants, there are a number of ( Read more... )

I have to brag. Last year, I got nine of the 10 categories that I picked correct. My only mistake was that I never thought that the Academy would give an Oscar to an ex-stripper. But hey, there's a first time for everything.

So, everyone's been talking about Slumdog Millionaire, the rags to riches story this year that wasn't done in a Disney-over- ( Read more... )

Pun intended, btw.

Everyone loves No Country for Old Men. Well, mostly everyone. I do too. It's a great movie. I really like the premise it's built on. Tommy Lee Jones is amazing and Javier Bardem is going to win some gold Sunday.

Looking at this list of Oscar nominated films, however, nothing really jumps out as "WOW, THAT'S FUCKING AMAZING." All ( Read more... )