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Comedy is a dangerous business, Exhibit A. No-one's especially interested in last night's Best Picture winner, Coda, but everyone's talking about Will Smith punching Chris Rock at the Oscars. Rock made what he clearly thought was a very softball joke about Jada Pinkett Smith's haircut and Will Smith punched him in the face. Unbeknownst to Rock, ( Read more... )

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I hadn't really planned on watching the Oscars but I'm at my parents' house and my mother's throwing a little Oscar themed party. I haven't seen most of the nominees. I suppose either American Sniper or Selma will win. I haven't seen either one. I'm leaning towards American Sniper for my prediction. The ironic thing about the outcry over Selma's ( Read more... )

I think the human race could do without math. We'd probably all be happy little hunter gatherers if math had never happened, dying at around 28 or so, if it weren't for math and all the busy work it's brought us ( Read more... )

I must say it's fascinating that people are condemning Seth MacFarlane for intentionally saying wrong things and no-one's mentioning how the audience booed when MacFarlane alluded to the fact that Mel Gibson left a voice mail for his ex-girlfriend wishing she would be "raped by a pack of niggers." Because I guess it's only okay to make racist and ( Read more... )

I can't say Argo is the most overrated Oscar Best Picture nominee I've ever seen. Because I've seen the Paul Haggis version of Crash. But the fact that Argo has ended up on so many top ten lists of 2012 movies around the world is puzzling to say the least. It's not exactly a bad movie. It's an involving story, it creates some effective tension and ( Read more... )

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I sympathise with Jodie Foster insofar as the Golden Globes crowd seems like it was a really tough crowd. Not because they weren't receptive to what she had to say, but because everyone seemed so sedated by alcohol, their egos, and who knows what else that the reactions from the crowd made it seem like Foster was in an empty room except for the ( Read more... )