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It’s back to the future, I guess: I’m picking up ABC over the air now — not a sentence I would ever have expected to utter in the second decade of the 21st century — so I’ll be able to watch the Oscars tonight (no thanks to the whiny ass babies at ABC and Cablevision). … more…
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…
Fun! I love being on the tee-bee! Not! Man, that TV makeup feels like you’ve been slathered in plaster. I do love talkin’ ’bout the movies, though… This is the whole episode. I’m told there will later be a clip of only the Oscar stuff. TWO MINUTES LATER: And here it is already.
ABC and Cablevision had better resolve their differences before Sunday, or else I’m not gonna be able to watch the Oscars (because ABC will pull their signal from Cablevision). And then I’m gonna be really mad.
Recently the members of the Online Film Critics Society discussed what technical race — that is, editing, production design, on so on — we follow with the most interest and which films we would have nominated. The critics’ responses are here. Now it’s your turn: Which technical Oscar category interests you most? Mine is probably … more…
I was overhasty this morning in deleting two comments that I mistook for spam: in fact, they were directing us all to where we can see “Logorama,” the fourth of the five Oscar-nominated animated short films. (My apologies to that commenter.) It’s not embeddable — and it’s possible that this may be deleted at some … more…
The third of the three Oscar-nominated animated shorts that are available online (I featured one yesterday, and the first the day before):
The short-films categories are often the tie-breakers in Oscar pools, and often everyone is just guessing who’ll win what because usually, no one except Academy voters have seen these nominees. This year, more of us have the same opportunity. From an Academy press release: New York, Mar. 2 – The Academy Award Nominated Short Films … more…
Last week, Hurt Locker producer Nicolas Chartier was banned from attending the Oscar ceremony on Sunday over the emails he sent to Academy members. According to The Los Angeles Times, this is the first time such a ban has been instituted. I didn’t understand at first why an email asking for an Academy member’s vote … more…
The second of the three Oscar-nominated animated shorts that are available online (I featured one yesterday, the last will come tomorrow):
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