(Katie Jarvis in Fish Tank) Thanks to ladylurks, who points out that 3 of the 5 nominated directors are women. BEST BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM An Education Fish Tank In The Loop Moon Nowhere Boy BEST DIRECTOR Andrea Arnold – Fish Tank Armando Iannucci – In The Loop Duncan Jones – Moon Jane Campion – Bright Star Lone Scherfig – An Education THE...
Monthly Archives: October 2009
I am remotely posting the news that Ricky Gervais will be the Golden Globes host! Very exciting. Its as good a time as any to talk about Golden Globes possible ten – divided into drama and musical/comedy. Since I’m texting while driving I turn it over to you readers for now. UPDATE: Hitfix has quotes from Gervais and NBC: “Not only is this the biggest...
This year, especially in the Best Actress category, it feels like there are more true-ish stories being told than fictional ones. Manohla Dargis points this out in her article on all of the dead women being revived this year: For actresses, it is no longer enough to be young and beautiful onscreen, they have to be dead and famous, too — one of history’s immortals....
What surprised me most about the quiz was how many different answers there could be to one question. I also see that, in some cases, I didn’t quite phrase the question correctly, which led to some confusion. Since it was our first quiz (I think, eleven years is a long time Oscar watching) I felt fine about the mistakes, however I promise next time it will be less...
It’s that time of year again. The annual survey asking, “What’s your favorite spooky movie?” I like posing this question, because you guys always come up with a title or two I haven’t seen yet. So help me find something to watch Halloween night when me and my cat will be sitting in a darkened apartment pretending not to be home to marauding...
(ABC News, October 24, 2009. The good part starts at 2:45 and really gets fun a minute later.) At movieline this morning, a brave and scathing letter from Oscar-winner Paul Haggis to Scientology’s national spokesman, Tommy Davis (who you can meet in the clip above). Haggis denounces the controversial ‘church’ for “gay bashing” and other...