The Peg Is In

TweetNo posts for a month? Dear readers, you must have wondered what hole I fell into. It was a deep and wide hole, and its name is Overcommitment. I fell down it and couldn’t get up. Several of my friends were down there, too. We discussed our predicament over many beers. This did not help [...]

TweetOfficial website – IMDB listing I was born in 1966, the same year Star Trek debuted on television. As soon as I could reach the dial that changed the channel, I was a Trekkie. I watched the original Star Trek series in reruns whenever I could, usually sometime after school and before the news. My [...]

TweetTwilight: Official website – IMDB listing Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in): Official website – IMDB listing Ken and I have been marinating our minds in a couple of recent Blu-Ray disc releases this weekend. My strong pull toward one and his strong pull toward the other has got me thinking about [...]

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TweetWow! I just got finished watching the Oscars, and what a movie year it was! Not only that, but I made my most accurate predictions ever. Didn’t that set with the Swarovski crystal curtain look incredible? And I think the device of having 5 past winners in a category present the award was marvellous. This [...]

TweetThe 2009 Academy Awards are just two days away! Here’s who would win if I ran the show, along with my predictions for who will win. Best Actor On pure acting chops, the best was Sean Penn, but Hollywood is a big softie and tends to reward living the role. In that case, Mickey Rourke takes [...]

TweetI’ve been making good progress on my Oscar Run. Just to remind the uninitiated, an Oscar Run is an attempt to see all feature-length movies nominated for an Oscar or containing an Oscar nominee before the prizes are awarded. This year, that is this Sunday, February 22. Coming soon: my top ten list from these [...]

Tweet Official website – IMDB listing Oscar nomination: Costume Design I was prepared to laugh it up over Australia. Something about the trailers hinted at a movie that was way too ambitious, too arch, too earnest, and at 3 hours, too long – and this was the director that gave us Moulin Rouge, after all. [...]

TweetA successful Oscar Run can only be achieved if you see every nominated feature length movie. Thus, I’m in a pickle, because the following films are hiding from me. Can you help? I need to find a way to see: The Baader Meinhof Complex (from Germany) Betrayal (Nerakhoon) The Class (from France) Departures (from Japan) [...]

TweetOfficial website – IMDB listing Oscar nominations: Best Actress – Melissa Leo, Best Original Screenplay – Courtney Hunt Times are tough. It’s the dead of winter in Massena, New York, and Ray Eddy (Melissa Leo) is a part-time cashier down to feeding her two kids nothing but Tang and popcorn. It gets cold in their [...]