Animated Shorts – 2010 Oscar Nominees
One of the best tickets I buy at the movies is when I treat myself to the annual program of the Academy Award-nominated animated shorts. The short subject is such a lost treasure in the moviegoing experience, and yet, almost miraculously, there are still filmmakers out there doing marvelous, daring, and inspired things with the [...]
Oscar Nominations – First Reaction: Hear Woman Roar
(Going to do my breakdown of the field in a later post. This one deserved to stand on its own.) My first observation from reading this year’s nominees for the Academy Awards is what an amazing year it is for women in film – and why can’t every year be at least this good? Coming [...]
Do not fear the silence
I have a few traditions around this time of year: -I publish a 10 Best/10 Worst list from the movies I saw that were released in the previous year; thus closing the book on them so I can exclusively review releases from this year. -I publish my predictions of who will win this year’s Academy [...]
Oscarmania – (2009) Interplanetary Mix
Now I think I know how baseball fanatics feel, when they draw swords over steroid-inflated statistics, or exactly which of the umpty-ump scandals besmirching The Great American Pastime™ over the course of a century was the one that made it Lose Its Innocence™. When the field is ever-evolving, greatness becomes a moving target, and comparisons [...]