Tag Archives: State of the Race

“This train carries saints and sinners. This train, carries losers and winners.” –Springsteen So much of the Oscar race is built on...

So the multitude goes, like the flower and the weed That wither away to let others succeed; So the multitude comes, even those we behold, To repeat every...

The Oscars can be a kaleidoscope view of our world — spectacular and surreal. Or they can be a microscope, honing in with sharp perspective on matters...

With two weeks before the US Presidential election, nerves are frayed. The horses are kicking in their stalls. Cumulonimbus clouds on the horizon and...

Some days it’s a rough go, filtering life through the waves of chatter online. Much of the time it’s even worse than high school — it’s...

[buzz] As we head into Toronto, we still don’t have our presumed front-runner for Best Picture, unless it’s Argo, which it very well might...

Two years ago, when the Academy thumped The Social Network and awarded The King’s Speech in the top two categories, it marked one of the more significant...