Weekend Roundtable: Worst Oscar Snubs
As we look forward to this year’s Academy Awards on February 27th, let’s first take a look back at some of the grave injustices that have plagued the awards show throughout its checkered history.
As we look forward to this year’s Academy Awards on February 27th, let’s first take a look back at some of the grave injustices that have plagued the awards show throughout its checkered history.
Just a couple of weeks ago, I was saying that the Oscar race had been pretty much wrapped up. Based on the nearly unanimous critics’ awards and Top 10 lists, as well as the about-to-be-revealed Academy Award nominations, I t...
Since I went through the major Oscar nominations earlier, I thought that I’d take a look at some of the lesser, more esoteric and technical categories. If you only care about all the attractive movie stars, this probably isn...
Yesterday was the big day, the day I’ve been speculating about and pondering over and wasting many sleepless nights thinking about: Oscar nomination day! While a lot of the nominees were foregone conclusions, there were some...
The 2011 Oscar Nominations were announced this morning. Follow after the break for a look at which movies the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences believes were last year’s best. We’d also like to use this oppor...
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… But mostly it was the worst of times. Actually, that’s a little dramatic. 2010 wasn’t a particularly stellar year for movies (unlike, say, 2007), but there wer...
2011 has barely started, and already we’ve lost an acting great. British character actor with the difficult-to-spell name Pete Postlethwaite passed away yesterday at age 64. Let’s celebrate his career by watching some ...
The biggest movie of the year comes out on Blu-ray this week. Unfortunately, beyond that, there’s not too much else of interest.
As the Oscar derby – tightly contested and wide open mere weeks ago – gets whittled down to a remaining few, it’s looking less and less likely that Warner Bros. has a dog in this fight. What’s so fascinating about the ...
‘Firefly‘ fans often lament that their favorite show was canceled halfway through its first season. Well, the plain fact is that hardly anybody watched the series, and its broadcast ratings were terrible. Likewise, whe...
As the summer movie season draws to a close, one film stands pretty tall above the rest. Christopher Nolan’s ‘Inception’ is a critical favorite and (despite some early studio hand-wringing) a massive box office h...
I may have walked out of ‘Resident Evil: Afterlife,’ but that doesn’t mean everybody did. It was the only major studio movie this weekend and it locked down 2,000 of the country’s 3,203 3-D screens. That...