For the first time in recorded history I have seen exactly ZERO of the current nominees for Best Picture at the Oscars.
Even more shocking to me is that this pattern continues to Best Director category, and onwards to the Best Actor (and Supporting) and even Best Actress nominations for the Oscars this year. In fact, of the “Major” categories, I’ve seen one single nominee – for Best Supporting actress and Original Screenplay – Bridesmaids. Does that seem right?
Either I am losing touch with my Cinephile heart, or this year’s nominations are idiotic. I submit the following as proof of the latter: King Fu Panda 2 is nominated in the Best Animated Feature category – Tin Tin is nowhere to be found.
Has the entire Academy taken Crazy Pills?
As an annual attendee of what is considered one of the most important pre-Oscar Film events each year, the Toronto International Film Festival, I honestly thought that I’d be on the cutting-edge of good cinema each year. At the 2011 Oscars I fared very well – having seen plenty of Academy-nom’d movies, and even more excitingly, several winning ones (including Best Foreign Film – which is basically the Holy…
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I was spending some time last week redesigning The Roaming Life so Angelina can use it has her main blog, and it really motivated me to redo my own.
If you could describe any movie as the “Geek Feel-Good Movie of the Year” this would be it. I’m reviewing this one, fresh off the heals of having been to FanExpo 2011 (aka Canadian Comic-Con Lite).
Yesterday I saw two very different sort of films, first up was Death of a Superhero, by Ian Fitzgibbon, and starring Andy Serkis and Thomas Brodie-Sangster aka, the Adorable little kid from Nanny McFee & Love, Actually.
