Academy Award countdown: 23 days till Oscar

George Clooney, nominated for Best Actor for his performance in Michael Clayton, won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for 2005’s Syriana. (Click the DVD for a quote from his character.) (Buy Syriana at Amazon.) (Read my review of Syriana.) (Read my review of Michael Clayton.) (Technorati tags: Academy Award countdown, Oscar countdown, George Clooney, … more…

screencap Friday: what the flick? #5

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.

on last night’s episode of ‘Lost’

I’m blogging about Lost like I did in the fall about Heroes over at Film.com. Check out my take on last night’s episode. Feel free to chat here about it, if you like. (Film.com is still allowing readers to submit only one comment each per post, which makes it impossible to have a conversation.)

opening wide today: ‘The Eye,’ ‘Over Her Dead Body,’ ‘Strange Wilderness,’ ‘Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour’

Three of the four major releases this weekend did not screen for critics. That’s gotta be some kind of record… The Eye In this unneccesary remake of a Hong Kong horror movie, Jessica Alba gets an eye transplant from a donor who probably shouldn’t have been donating, and now she can see into the supernatural … more…

Scenes of a Sexual Nature (review)

It’s mostly notable for the astonishing array of British film talent on display: Ewan McGregor, Gina McKee, Sophie Okonedo, Catherine Tate, Polly Walker, Hugh Bonneville, Adrian Lester, Eileen Atkins, and many other faces that will be familiar to Anglophiles.