A little bit of Oscar news on a Friday morning. The short list for Animated Feature nominees has been released… ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE BEE MOVIE BEOWULF MEET THE ROBINSONS PERSEPOLIS RATATOUILLE SHREK THE THIRD THE SIMPSONS MOVIE SURF’S UP TEKKONKINKREET TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES …kinda feels like they named every…
Pressed In a Book
So the WGA writers are on strike. They’re demanding that they get a bigger piece of the money producers reap from DVD sales and legal downloading. It’s hard to blame them really. After all, if not for those who write the material, we the audience would have no good material to watch (that said, I…
Working Class Hero
I’m a tad busy today, so my usual Tuesday Top Five will have to wait until this evening, but in the meantime, check this out. While many (including me) are feeling excited about the new Indiana Jones movie running higher and higher each day, EW has posted a theory that when it comes to RAIDERS…
AMERICAN GANGSTER
The American Dream gets a Rude Awakening.
LARS AND THE REAL GIRL
And now for something completely different…
The World Will Know
Quiet nights in during the summer bring the same routine for my fiancee and I: make a tasty dinner and watch one of our hundreds of dvd’s rather than watch the endless re-runs or reality shows that fill up summer programming. It gets a tad amusing when we get into mid-autumn, because we sometimes forget…
Smile Like You Mean It
Confession: I’ve never found Seinfeld funny. Never. Not once. I’ve tried though. I’ve watched classic episode after classic episode, exposed myself to contests, puffy shirts, shrinkage, Frogger, and Mulva. I’ve never laughed out loud…ever, and it’s usually pretty easy to make me laugh. Now combine that “I-don’t-get-it” shoulder shrug with the fact that reruns of…