
my guesses for Sunday night’s 86th Academy Awards
Winners are indicated. I got 16/24. Pretty good, if I may say so myself.
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Winners are indicated. I got 16/24. Pretty good, if I may say so myself.
Marvel at the terror of a man seeing the dominance of his privilege challenged on unwitting display.
12 Years a Slave and Gravity win big…
Shhh! don’t tell anywhere where you heard all this…
You know how you just avoid making movies with female protagonists because you keep insisting that no one wants to see them? Pfffft!
Stunningly accomplished space survival adventure: heartstopping and heartbreaking; the best film of 2013. Just don’t call it science fiction.
We’re nearly 15 years into the century — it shouldn’t be so hard to think of names to fill this roster.
Meanspirited where it’s meant to be funny. Misogynist crap is still misogynist crap when it stars women.
20th Century Fox is embarrassed by the stars of its film The Heat; Vice thinks women writers are most beautiful when they shut up and die; the madness of George (Lucas); and more.