screencap Friday: what the flick? #8
Friday fun! Here’s a screen capture from one of the DVDs in my collection (and it’s definitely from a movie, not a TV show). Guess the movie for fun and, well, fun. No prizes, just bragging rights.
Month: February 2008
I drink your Sunny D! I drink it up!
Reader Matthew tells me via email that the image on the landing page is “highly-larious,” and that I should post it here so that everyone can comment on it. So here it is: Have fun.
best of 2007: best supporting actor, best supporting actress
The Oscars are barrelling down on us — the ceremony is this coming Sunday, February 24 — so it’s time to close out Movie Year 2007. Between today and tomorrow, I’ll share with you my own picks for the bests of the year, plus my predictions for Oscar night. After the jump, the top 5 … more…
does nobody understand the difference between fiction and reality?
David Tennant thinks astrology is bunk, which makes me love him even more. Gorgeous, talented, and rational? Oh, baby… Of course, the British newspaper article in which this tidbit can be found is shocked, shocked to have such news to be passing on. The Mirror article starts out like this: Doctor Who may travel the … more…
Academy Award countdown: 3 days till Oscar
Laura Linney, nominated for Best Actress for her performance in The Savages, has been nominated twice before, including for Best Actress in 2000’s You Can Count on Me. (Click the DVD for a quote from her character.) (Buy You Can Count on Me at Amazon.) (Read my review of You Can Count on Me.) (Technorati … more…
watch it: “Superdelegates should step aside”
(Technorati tags: Superdelegates should step aside)
Charlie Bartlett (review)
If a good rule of thumb is that the average generation clocks in at around twenty-five years, then it’s almost too delicious to note that 22 years after ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ — the definitive Gen X high school movie — comes the next great, generation-defining high-school hero.
best of 2007: best foreign language film, best animated film
The Oscars are barrelling down on us — the ceremony is this coming Sunday, February 24 — so it’s time to close out Movie Year 2007. Between today and tomorrow, I’ll share with you my own picks for the bests of the year, plus my predictions for Oscar night. After the jump, the top 5 … more…
Academy Award countdown: 4 days till Oscar
Ronald Harwood, nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, won an Oscar for this adapted screenplay for 2002’s The Pianist. (Click the DVD for a quote from his script.) (Buy The Pianist at Amazon.) (Read my review of The Pianist.) (Read my review of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.) … more…
one of the best emails I’ve ever gotten
I have no idea what prompted this, since clearly the writer believes I am psychic in addition to being smug and elitist. Still, it’s too good not to share: Five things I hate WAY more than “Juno”: 1) “Atonement” )now THAT’S overrated!) 2) Sean “Scumbag” Penn 3) Aretha Franklin’s flabby arms (buy an outfit with … more…
