
Oz the Great and Powerful (review)
Exactly what you expect it to be. Unless you were expecting some Sam Raimi nutso. (new DVD/VOD US/Can)

Exactly what you expect it to be. Unless you were expecting some Sam Raimi nutso. (new DVD/VOD US/Can)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

Jokiness and hokeyness have been genetically engineered away, leaving something pure and sweet and poignant, a throwback to late-60s/early-70s humanist science fiction. More Charly than Heston.
Terrence Malick with James Franco? Woody Allen with Clive Owen? Quentin Tarantino with Kate Winslet? And what kind of project would your dream team do?
He did it! James Franco finally did it! Damn him all to hell!
Brent Lang at TheWrap asks this ludicrous question. In a word, No. In another word, Bwahahahahahaha. Your Highness is just plain awful. So why ask the question at all?
It’s one thing to say that Hollywood scoops up indie filmmakers, chews them up, and spits out McG and Brett Ratner clones, which absolutely happens. But that’s on a whole ’nother level to what it has done to David Gordon Green. Someone took the most glorious bottle of vintage champagne and whipped up Tang mimosas.
And was the ceremony any fun? How were James Franco and Anne Hathaway as hosts? What did I miss?
Or, What James Franco gets up to when he’s not sawing his own arm off, making performance art on General Hospital, pursuing a PhD in literature, and hosting the Oscars…
Here’s an at-a-glance look at my picks for Sunday night’s Academy Awards — projected winners are Xed. Keep in mind: this isn’t a list of whom I think should win Oscars but whom I think will win…