academy awards

Eddie Murphy to host 84th Academy Awards in 2012

Thank God, finally a funny person doing the Oscars. The 50 year old comedian who had brought us such classics like Coming to America, Beverley Hills cops, Donkey from Sherk and so many more characters will be hosting the 84th Academy awards. I can finally watch the show without boredom. Thank you Eddie saving us [...]

The 83rd Annual Academy Awards Nominees

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Here they are: 83rd Annual Academy Award Nominations Best Supporting Actress Amy Adams – “The Fighter” Helena Bonham Carter – “The King’s Speech” Melissa Leo – “The Fighter” Hailee Steinfeld – “True Grit” Jacki Weaver – “Animal Kingdom” Best Supporting Actor Christian Bale – “The Fighter” John Hawkes – “Winter’s Bone” Jeremy Renner – “The [...]

Best Picture

And here it is – the mountain top – the Best film of the year. Epic. Ok, they have expanded the film this year to 10. ten. One-Zero. This is like every march when the NCAA toys with expanding the NCAA Basketball pool. It isn’t that there are more quality contenders – it just means [...]

Best Actor/Actress

Now, we enter the Hall of Fame: Best Actor/Actress. This is the stuff of legends – the time when you know you have made it. Your a lead, and the best lead. It is the stuff dreams are made of. How you know you have earned your way into greatness. So – Lets cut to [...]

Review #10 – Invictus

I do not understand rugby at all. At all. It seems like a cool sport – Guys hitting other guys, a brutal, bruising sport played by hooligans and watched by gentlemen. A film about rugby is not a bad idea if people in America actually understood the sport – since we don’t, having the game [...]

Review #9 – Up in the Air

Bill Simmons (Page 2 writer for ESPN.com) equates different game situations to what he calls “Levels of Losing”, each one is a different level of loss that your own sports team goes through now and again. Specifically, there are (in his most recent update) 16 levels of loss, Ranging from the “Princeton Principle”, when your [...]

Review #7 – A Serious Man

As I sit, watching this 1960′s character (judging by the music, cars and styles, I would guess late 60′s) for about 2 minutes, a recurring question keeps coming in: Have you ever wondered what happened to Michael Douglas in the lead up to his explosion in “Falling Down”? The secret is: “A Serious Man” – [...]