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  • February 17, 2012

    We’re recording this Sunday and will be talking about the Picture, Director, and Screenplay races along with other tidbits from the week.

    We’ll be reading them on the podcast.  Have at it!

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    Author: Robert Hamer
    February 17, 2012

    "Really, Oscar?!"

    What better way to continue celebrating the most romantic holiday of the year than with this weekend’s This Means War, a romantic spy comedy that features things that both men and women like!  Y’see, it’s about two superspy BFFs who find out they are dating the same woman…AT THE SAME TIME!  So they pull all sorts of over-the-top spy action hijinks on each other to win her heart instead of just saying to each other, “Wow, what an amoral bitch, let’s both dump her and move on to the next guaranteed lineup of women more than happy to sleep with our gorgeous asses” like any normal human being would in that situation.  Why, that doesn’t sound like a cynical focus group premise at all!  And look, it stars Chris Pine, Tom Hardy and, um, Academy Award-winner Reese Witherspoon.

    Read more on Anatomy of an Oscar Curse…

    February 17, 2012

    Winners of last year's "Best Animated Short Film" for 'The Lost Thing.'

    We draw closer and closer to that inevitable and exciting day when the Oscars are announced, seeing how our predictions stack up and whether our favorite films get their deserving honors. Like last week’s Oscar Circuit article on “Best Live Action Short,” the “Best Animated Short” category is often forgotten by moviegoers who just want to see the major awards announced. That’s a shame, because there are some truly innovative animated films out this award’s season whose studios, one in particular this year, have the potential to become major power players in the animation industry. I see animated short films as both poems and experiments. You have small studios like Moonbot Industries and StudioAKA unafraid to showcase their talents with great little stories featuring some often bizarre yet stylistically impressive animation. Everything is so compact and told in such little time, but the emotion that pours through in those brief minutes is often more gripping than a full length feature. The nominees this year are no exception.

    The 2012 Nominees for “Best Animated Short Film” Are…

    • Sunday/Dimanche — Patrick Doyan
    • The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore – William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg
    • La Luna – Enrico Casarosa
    • A Morning Stroll – Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe
    • Wild Life – Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis

    Read more on Oscar Circuit: Best Animated Short…

    February 17, 2012

    Lights, camera, Vegas! Welcome to another episode of…American Idol. Not only was this episode the best of the entire season thus far, but it finally proved why Randy has been so high on Season Eleven for the past two weeks. Let’s face it, Hollywood Week was a miserable mess, and a trip to the desert was just the cure to alleviate the torture Hollywood Week put us through as viewers. I’m not saying American Idol has reached the upper echelons of its former quality, but I also think that it certainly redeemed itself with an episode that showcased many potential stars in the making, as well as providing us with some great feedback and criticism from our panel of judges. When Jennifer Lopez is on her judging game, only Simon Cowell tops her in this field. Lopez’s critiques are precise, helpful, and always spot on. She knows how far to push a contestant with a critique without making them collapse into tears, and even the let downs and cuts aren’t quite as painful to watch. That being said, there were three individuals tonight who I felt were robbed a shot at a spot in the Top 42. That’s right folks, the numbers have now been dwindled to 42 remaining contestants. After the jump, find out who made the top 42, who I select as my final “Top 5 to Watch” (yep, this is the last time these honors will be awarded this season), and most importantly: I predict who will make American Idol Season 11′s Top 24.
    Read more on ‘American Idol’ Recap: Vegas Round and Top 42 Revealed…

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