watch it: “A Trailer for Every Academy Award Winning Movie Ever”
Don’t be drinking anything while you view this:
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poor little rich movie stars, NetFlix and ‘Variety’ sued, God as a film critic: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar win doesn’t *really* count…
…women go to the movies more than men, and more. Yup, it’s The Week in Women, my regular column over at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Enjoy.
March 12: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but you still haven’t given up the search for WMDs in Iraq. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on Monday, “Hey, did you see Green Zone … more…
question of the day: John Hughes’ unproduced script: produce it, or not?
The Hollywood Reporter revealed, in the wake of the Oscar tribute to John Hughes on Sunday night, that there exists, in that ghostly nethworld of Unproduced Scripts, one last story from the filmmaker waiting for its moment on the screen… or not. The script, titled Grisbys Go Broke, is apparently about “a wealthy Chicago family … more…
question of the day: What did you think of the Oscars?
Okay, time for the postmortem. Did any award surprise you? (Nominees and winners here.) Who gave the best speech? (It was Sandra Bullock, wasn’t it?) Which movie do you feel like you really have to see now? What was the funniest moment of the ceremony? (Tina Fey and Robert Downey Jr. on writers, I think.) … more…
Oscar predictions: ‘The Hurt Locker’ won’t be hurting
UPDATED: Winners are indicated with ♦s. I made informed guesses in 20 of the 24 categories; of those, I guessed 12 correctly. (Well, 13, really, except that in the animated short category in the original version of this page, I had both “The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)” and “Logorama” checked … more…
MaryAnn proposes we rename the Oscars…
…Crazy Interrupting French Lady Follies. Discuss.
MaryAnn can’t believe…
…that Steve Martin has already Godwin’d the Oscars with his Meryl Streep-loves-Nazis joke. Open thread for the first hour or so of the Oscars…
MaryAnn tonight is wearing…
…boxers by Hanes and a t-shirt by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Consider this your Oscars red carpet open thread. 7:30PM: It just occurred to me that until women’s eveningwear is as subdued as a man’s tuxedo, women will never be allowed to talk about just their work on the red carpet. Conversely, until men start … more…
