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Tony Gilroy, nominated for Best Original Screenplay for Michael Clayton, has never been nominated for an Oscar before, but he was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay for 2004’s The Bourne Supremacy. (Click the DVD for a quote from his script.) (Buy The Bourne Supremacy at Amazon.) (Read my … more…
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.
Daniel Day-Lewis, nominated for Best Actor for his performance in There Will Be Blood, won an Oscar for Best Actor for 1989’s My Left Foot. (Click the DVD for a quote from his character.) (Buy My Left Foot at Amazon.) (Read my review of There Will Be Blood.) (Technorati tags: Academy Award countdown, Oscar countdown, … more…
This is wonderfully bizarre: (Technorati tags: Valentine for Perfect Strangers)
Well, that’s how ya do it, I guess: you teleport right past all the boring stuff like character and background.
The fine folks at Just Foreign Policy (just as in “right and honorable,” not just as in “only”) give us some excellent background on Iran and its relationship with the U.S. via This Modern World (Technorati tags: Iran, foreign policy)
Cate Blanchett, nominated for Best Actress for her performance in Elizabeth: The Golden Age, won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for 2004’s The Aviator. (Click the DVD for a quote from her character.) (Buy The Aviator at Amazon.) (Read my review of The Aviator.) (Read my review of Elizabeth: The Golden Age.) (Technorati tags: … more…
(Get a full recap or watch the entire episode at CBS’s official site for the show.) You thought the bombs were scary? The bombs weren’t nuthin’. Now comes the scary stuff: the political machinations and, well, the Second American Civil War. It’s like everything we’ve seen up to now on Jericho has been prelude — … more…
Ask anyone of the Generation X persuasion about Joan Crawford, and there’s one image that invariably leaps to mind, and it ain’t of Joan Crawford: it’s of Faye Dunaway portraying Joan Crawford in the notorious 1981 biopic Mommie Dearest. And particularly of the clownishly madeup Dunaway Crawford screaming about wire hangers, the undesirability of. So … more…
Javier Bardem, nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in No Country for Old Men, was previously nominated as Best Actor in 2000’s Before Night Falls. (Click the DVD for a quote from his character.) (Buy Before Night Falls at Amazon.) (Read my review of No Country for Old Men.) (Technorati tags: Academy Award … more…
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