Blog post for RL work on the Best Picture nominees here. Will try to be tweeting a bit during the broadcast, but there’s wine and food and most importantly The Girls, so I’ll be focused on that rather than on my phone.
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Oscar! Oscar! Get yer Oscar here!
Posted in Awards Shows, Movies, TV on February 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Liveblogging the Grammys
Posted in Awards Shows, Music, R.I.P., tagged A prayer for Whitney, Adele, Chris Brown really? WTF Grammys?, Eat it Seacrest, Grammys, John Legend is so so tasty, Minaj and the Pope, Rhianna "in" Armani, The Boss and The Big Man, Whitney Houston drinking game on February 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Gonna make an attempt to comment on the Grammys – they’re on CBS so there’s no new The Good Wife tonight. Drinking game: one for every mention of Whitney Houston. Have 911 on speed dial for alcohol poisoning. – Blonde, bridal on the RC: must be Taylor Swift. – Looking the complete opposite: Adele. She [...]
Oscars 2012, the Clooney edition (Pt 1): The Ides of March
Posted in Awards Shows, Movies, TIFF, tagged Apparently politicians will disappoint you, Clooney-Gosling bromance, Ides of March, Oscars 2012, PSH could read the phone book and it would be awesome, the media is not your friend on February 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Cloons had two films at TIFF last fall, and before the festival opened it sure seemed like this was the one with the buzz. Yet The Ides of March disappeared from theatres relatively quickly and The Descendants is still out there, I guess ’cause people like seeing George Clooney cry and Hawaii’s real pretty. [...]
R.I.P. Miramax: The house that Quentin built is no more
Posted in Awards Shows, Movies, R.I.P., tagged 1998 Oscars, Bob and Harvey Weinstein, Getting Medieval, Golden Age of Hollywood, Kevin Smith, Miramax, Peter Biskind, Quentin Tarantino, Shakespeare in Love, The English Patient, Walt Disney Studios on January 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Mr. Pink. Marcellus Wallis. Viola De Lessups. Jay and Silent Bob. Graham Dalton. Laszlo de Amalsy. The Bride. If you’re of a certain age, you can barely remember movies without Bob and Harvey Weinstein. They started out as a tiny distribution company, and grew into a mini-major that changed the face of film, helping to [...]
The Golden Globes Red Carpet
Posted in Awards Shows, Movies, TV, tagged Colin Firth, Courteney Cox, Gerard Butler, Glee, Golden Globes, Harrison Ford, January Jones, Jeff Bridges, Julia Roberts, Kristen Bell, Marion Cotillard, NBC late night, Paul McCartney, Ricky Gervais, Robert Downey Jr., T Bone Burnett, Tom Ford, Tom Hanks, Tracy Morgan on January 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
7:02: It’s pouring rain on the red carpet and some guy with an official umbrella just dumped a bunch of water on Billy Bush’s back. Ha! 7:05, a sentence I never thought I’d write: Tracy Morgan and my mom both use the phrase “[You're] not made of sugar, [you] won’t melt.” 7:07: Dude sighting! I [...]
Oscar bait films part the first: Inglourious Basterds
Posted in Awards Shows, DVD, Movies, tagged B.J. Novak, Brad Pitt, Brad Pitt's horrible mustache, Christoph Waltz, Diane Kruger, Inglourious Basterds, Life is Beautiful, Melanie Laurent, Natural Born Killers, Quentin Tarantino, Quentin Tarantino's foot fetish, True Romance on January 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s about what you’d expect for a WWII film from Tarantino: Lots of talking, sporadic but graphic violence, long cutaways that don’t really need to be there, total disregard for anything resembling historical accuracy, close-ups of women’s feet, and plenty of style. It’s a revisionist-history revenge fantasy that’s quite a bit longer than it needs [...]
Oscar Night ’09: some quick thoughts
Posted in Awards Shows, Movies, TV, tagged Hugh Jackman, Oscars on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Many thanks to Impudent Dandelion for hosting Oscar night, and to Asha for joining us and bringing that yummy dip. Despite my having completely biffed my office Oscar pool yet again, I thought last night was overall a success, although there are things I’d not like to see again. The good: Hugh Jackman as host: charming, [...]
Drunkfest 2009: The Golden Globes
Posted in Awards Shows, tagged Golden Globes on January 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Not much to say on the subject of the Globes. I was going to try live-blogging it, but was feeling under the weather yesterday, so I didn’t. I also haven’t seen enough of the films yet to comment properly (guess I’m going to have to see Slumdog Millionaire now). Things I loved: Kate Winslet’s dress [...]
The Dull Knight
Posted in Awards Shows, Movies, R.I.P., tagged Christopher Nolan, Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight on January 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Appropriately enough given Heath Ledger’s win at the Golden Globes last night, I finally saw The Dark Knight this weekend (I think I’m the last person in the industrialized world to see it). And my two word review is: That’s it?!? That is what had the fanboys slavering all summer? That inspired death threats against [...]
Oscar Post-Mortem: The “Blood” Bath
Posted in Awards Shows, Movies, tagged Oscars on March 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s taken me this long to post about the Oscars at least partly because: I suck. At predicting winners, anyway. I suppose I should be happy that I find it difficult to anticipate the opinions of a bunch of old, rich, boring people who picked Crash over Brokeback Mountain but 12/24 is a piss-poor average and I [...]
