Good-bye, good-bye! I'm off to Hollywood for the Academy Awards!

Here is my dress:

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Writers Net is down, dammit. Yes, I admit it: I'm highly addicted. There's always a troll around to brighten my day ( Read more... )

I give up. Right now I'm 45 minutes into this film and can't stand it another second ( Read more... )

Little Miss Sunshine http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0449059/ : Well, what can I say? Best picture? Not. If anything, this was a takeoff on Chevy Chase's Vacation movies. And not nearly as clever ( Read more... )

Beth and I rented The Departed and Little Miss Sunshine yesterday so we could catch up on the Oscar nominees before Sunday--then realized American Idol was on for two hours, so we didn't get a chance to watch either of them. I haven't been following AI because, if I'm not working, then I'm up at Borders revising. So last night was a fun change. ( Read more... )

OK, now this was a MOVIE!

Similar to last year's Crash, Babel http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0449467/ was a conglomeration of different stories, different characters, but all of them connected: An American tourist is shot by a young Moroccan goatherd boy, and her husband tries ( Read more... )

I have no idea why The Queen http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436697/ was nominated for Best Picture. It was a good movie, it kept my interest, but it wasn't spectacular. I loved the vintage footage of Princess Diana, and the astonishingly gorgeous shots of the Scottish highlands ( ( Read more... )

When I found out (at the last minute) that this movie was from a Japanese perspective, I almost didn't go. The LAST thing I need to see is another anti-American film, thank you very much. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0498380/Read more... )