YAY! Moment

Variety is reporting that Fox and Warner Brothers have struck a deal for financial compensation so the WB can release The Watchmen movie. See Palais do her little geeky happy dance over to the left.

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Director’s Guild and WGA Nominees

Director’s Gulid noms:
Danny Boyle  Slumdog Millionaire
David Fincher The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard Frost/Nixon
Christopher Nolan The Dark Knight
Gus Van Sant Milk

The Writer’s Guild Nominees in the Adapted Screenplay category are:
The Cusrious Case Of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Slumdog Millionaire
The Writer’s Guild Nominees in the Original Screenplay category are:
Burn After Reading
Milk
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
The Visitor
The Wrestler
The biggest [...]

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Breaking: Producers Guild of America Announces Their Top Five

So it goes.
Up for the Daryl F. Zanuck prize as best film at the awards are:
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
The PGA’s are one of the indicators of Oscar glory, so this list is a pretty good starting point for those of you handicapping the noms.

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Notable Deaths of 2008

Paul Newman, 83, actor and philanthropist. 09/26
David Foster Wallace, 46, author ( Infinite Jest). 09/12
Isaac Hayes, 65, singer, songwriter, actor. 08/10
Jerry Wexler, 91, music producer. 08/15
Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, 89, author and Soviet dissident. 08/04
George Carlin, 71, comedian and actor. 06/22
Cyd Charisse, 86,  dancer and actress. 06/17
Tim Russert, 58, anchor of ” Meet the Press”. 06/13
Bo Diddley, [...]

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Dave Karger Has A Theory ( And some Proof To Back That Up)

Dave Karger, Entertainment Weekly’s divine Oscar Watchman, has put forth his theory on what films are the front runner for the Best Picture race come Oscar time. He also backs that up with some proof of his theory, although I’m convinced he needs to go back further, to at least the early 90s, to solidify [...]

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Actor Van Johnson: 1916-2008

Most people would recognize the face if not the name. Van Johnson was a huge star in the 40s and 50s. But like many of the era, he fell away from favor as acting styles changed and the grittier Method style became fashionable. He was actually a really good actor, and a teen heart throb [...]

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Commentary on the Golden Globe Nominees

Every year this mythical group of foreign journalists who write about Hollywood deign to call up the press to announce this list of movies and actors and writers and directors they like and then a month later throw a deliciously over the top party with food and booze and hand out some knick knack. Last [...]

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Complete List of Golden Globe Nominees-Film

As always, I have highlighted my picks for who I think will win. Commentary tonight.
BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
Leonardo DiCaprio, Revolutionary Road
Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn, Milk
Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
BEST PERFORMANCE [...]

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And More And More- New York Critics Choices Winners

Best Actress
Sally Hawkins
Happy-Go-Lucky
Best Screenplay
Jenny Lumet
Rachel Getting Married
Best Cinematographer
Anthony Dod Mantle
Slumdog Millionaire
Best Supporting Actor
Josh Brolin
Milk
Best Animated Film
WALL-E

Best Director
Mike Leigh
Happy-Go-Lucky
Best Supporting Actress
Penelope Cruz
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Best First Film
Courtney Hunt
Frozen River
Best Foreign Film
4 Months, 3 [...]

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More Award Show Mayhem

The Critics Choice Nominees:
BEST PICTURE
CHANGELING
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
THE DARK KNIGHT
DOUBT
FROST/NIXON
MILK
THE READER
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
WALL-E
THE WRESTLER
BEST ACTOR
CLINT EASTWOOD – GRAN TORINO
RICHARD JENKINS – THE VISITOR
FRANK LANGELLA – FROST/NIXON
SEAN PENN – MILK
BRAD PITT – THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
MICKEY ROURKE – THE WRESTLER
BEST ACTRESS
KATE BECKINSALE – NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH
CATE BLANCHETT – THE CURIOUS CASE OF [...]

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Crap, I’ll Never Sleep Now. Award Season In Full Swing.

Today, the National Board of Review released it’s annual top ten list of films, and it’s award winners in various categories. Surprisingly, the British indie Slumdog Millionaire captured best film, with awards also going to it’s writing and lead Dev Patel for breakthrough performance. Other multiple winners include the films Gran Torino, The Curious Case [...]

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WEBSITE OF THE YEAR

Do you like movies? Do you love them with a passion  known as geektastically so? Do you want to listen to amazing music, and read amazing text? Then travel on to Internet Archive. I was perusing one day earlier this year and came across a lot of Keaton and Chaplin. No surprise they were there, [...]

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A Review of A Review… Kind of.

Roger Ebert is my hero.
If my massive collection of Italian neo realism wasn’t the first clue, or the fact that The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg is my favorite film the second clue, I am kind of almost a big a movie geek as my Dylan and Waits obsessed music collection will let me be. I watch [...]

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