academy awards
What to rent: DVD releases for 3/11/08
Blu-Ray fans will be rejoicing this week when they hit the video stores looking for movies to rent. The best picture of the year, according to Academy Awards, hits shelves today and a simultaneous release on the big Blu will make Javier Bardem fans stand up and cheer. I wish he would have asked me [...] Continue →
No Country For Boring Oscars – Oscar Ratings Tank
Those of us who watch the Oscars every year know that last night’s 80th Annual telecast was far from the worst we’d ever seen. However, just as we’ve mentioned in other articles, there did seem to be something missing. No Country For Old was the favorite and ended up winning Best Picture. The stars were [...] Continue →
Congrats to Glen and Marketa for their Best Song win
Most of my friends would probably tell you how much I talked about the little movie Once all last year and how I tried to get them all to see it. It was in my top three favorite movies from 2007 and there really was something unique in the way I just fell in love [...] Continue →
Academy Awards – Oscar Winners For 2007
The Writer’s Strike ended and we got the only awards show that anyone in Hollywood really cares about anyway – the Academy Awards (otherwise known as the Oscars). Jon Stewart did a fair job hosting but I doubt this will go down in anyone’s book as one of the better Oscar ceremonies. The awards themselves [...] Continue →
Academy Award Nominations for 2007
The 2007 Oscar nominations for the Academy Awards were announced today at a press conference in Los Angeles in the wee hours of the morning. Overall, my initial impression is that the nominations are pretty dang good and for the most part, make me MUCH happier than I’ve been with the other junior awards, like [...] Continue →