Posts Tagged With: best picture (6 posts)

  1. Safe and sorry: My dvd tips for the week (video blogs)

    FAST & FURIOUS is just the latest addition to the filmography I like to think of as bio-Diesel. Yes, Vin will be back behind the wheel where he can do [...]

  2. The Oscars®… My final answer?

    Revamp the Oscars® all you like, it’s still an awards show. And, like any other trophy-trek, it will be long, bloated, tedious and… disappointing. This year’s Academy production sported some [...]

  3. Crying over blood-spilt MILK?

    Harvey Milk learned his lesson: You’ve got to give them Hope. Apparently, Barack Obama was listening; apparently, Danny Boyle cribbed his notes. Obama co-opted Hope as a one-word campaign slogan. [...]

  4. Best Picture? Defrosting NIXON

    Ron Howard made a SPLASH with the Tom Hanks-Daryl Hannah fish-out-of-her-mind tale. NIGHT SHIFT and GRAND THEFT AUTO are entertaining as well, if not particularly taxing, mentally. However, since the [...]

  5. The Best Pixar® Category?

    If we’re willing to accept the animated Robin Williams in dramatic roles, why can’t we abide animation in dramatic competition. Pixar has been making some of Hollywood’s best films for [...]

  6. The Oscars® are coming! Warren’s 1st Gripe.

    Every year, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences stages their glitzy award show. The Oscars® aren’t just the culmination of an extremely expensive, industry-wide popularity contest, they are [...]