Draw your own conclusions.
Fandom can veer into mania, whether you cheer baseball, football or water polo. If you “bleed purple” for the Vikes or paint your face black and silver like some Bay-area [...]
It is routine to question the Academy’s annual selections. Did SLUMDOG deserve its Oscar® riches? Did Mickey soil his britches hearing Sean Penn‘s name read aloud? Strangely, the Independent Spirit [...]
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 [...]
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE won the Academy Award for Best Picture because… A) It was lucky B) It was smart C) Fox Searchlight cheated D) It was written Of course, [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. It’s a lesson as old as the Bible, cited as recently as SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE. And while I curse the Oscars® for their [...]
