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82nd Academy Awards Winners: The Hurt Locker Takes Best Picture, Best Director
Let’s not waste time, shall we? You either care about the Oscars, or you don’t. Here are the winners from the 82nd Academy Awards (aka the 2010 Oscars), broadcast live last night. The big...
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2010 Oscar Nominations: Avatar Ties Hurt Locker with 9 Noms
The 2010 Oscar nominations are in, and as expected, zombie movies were all the rage, as they filled up every category — oh wait, nevermind. I must have been thinking about something else. “Avatar”,...
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The 2010 Golden Globes Winners
I am not sure if I agree with some of Hollywood Foreign Press’ selections this year, but then again that’s just me. Many people out there might be exhilarated that James Cameron’s “Avatar” took...
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Kick-Ass to Open 2010 SXSW
Road trip! If you’ve never been to Austin’s SXSW Festival, this is the year to do it, especially after the Fest has chosen Matthew Vaughn’s violent as hell and sure-to-be controversial superhero movie “Kick-Ass”...
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67th Annual Golden Globes Nominations (2009)
I know some of you out there still watch these film awards shows, which is why I’m even bothering with this post. Why, I haven’t a clue. Nothing of significance has won at these...
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Scott Mann’s The Tournament to Open Screamfest
Scott Mann’s “The Tournament” reminds me a lot of those drive-by action films from the ’80s and ’90s, where the story is really just a flimsy excuse to throw an endless barrage of action...
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Oscar Voting Rule Change That Might Change the Way you Feel about the Oscars (but Probably Not)
Let’s face it, almost no one who doesn’t work in Hollywood or dreams of working in Hollywood watches the Oscars telecast anymore. They’re too bland, too insipid, too wordy, too dancy, and just plan...
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2009 Primetime Emmy Awards Nominees, or, I Can’t Believe They’re Still Nominating Charlie Sheen for the Abomination that is Two and a Half Men
Wow, they’re still doing the Emmys? Maybe it’s just me, but it’s been ages since I’ve paid attention to this thing. Then again, I don’t pay any attention to the Oscars, either. I just...
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Starz Announces Spartacus: Blood and Sand Panel at Comic Con ’09
Looking for some doses of action, sex and Gladiator combat? Well you’re in luck, buckaroos, because that’s what the new Starz TV series Spartacus: Blood and Sand seems to be promising in spades. Just...
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Like the Oscars? Don’t Think They’re Long Enough? You’re in Luck!
In a move designed to boost ratings and trick — er, I mean, convince your Everyday Joe to tune in, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (aka the Oscars people) have decided...
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And the 2008 Oscar Winners Are …
For those of you smart enough to find something else to occupy your time this Sunday night instead of sitting on the couch watching the boring and overly long 2008 Oscars show, here are...
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The Best Films of 2008
When compiling a Best of Film list, it’s always difficult to remember the ones that came at the beginning of the year. Learning from past mistakes, I kept a list of every film I...
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2008 Oscars (81st Academy Awards) Nominations
What does Richard Jenkins, Frank Langella, Sean Penn, Brad Pitt, and Mickey Rourke have in common? Glad you asked! They’re all nominees for Best Performance by an actor in a leading role at the...
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2009 Golden Globe Winners
So the much-maligned Golden Globes dished out some hardware over the weekend. What, you were too busy watching NFL playoffs to notice? For shame! The Globes was fantast– oh who am I kidding, I...
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66th Annual 2008 Golden Globe Nominations
As I hear it, the Golden Globes is made up of a dozen or so foreigners who get together every year in a dingy little room in the back of an Appleby’s on Wilshire...
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TV News: 2008 Emmy Nominations
The Emmys (or as it’s known to my senile grandmother, the 60th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards) have just released this year’s batch of nominations, and as expected, pretty much the entire point goes out...
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2008 MTV Movie Awards Winners and Video Highlights
In case there are some of you who actually cares about who “won” at the MTV Movie Awards, besides all the celebrities that showed up to pimp their upcoming movies (and oh dear god...
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2008 MTV Movie Awards Nominations
I know you people are dying to find out the nominations for the 2008 MTV Movie Awards. What? You’re dying to find out, aren’t you? Well okay, even if you could care less, and...
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Mike Myers to Host 2008 MTV Movie Awards
Canuck funnyman Mike Myers (pictured, left) has landed the gig to host the 2008 MTV Movie Awards, Myers’ second go-around at the mostly pointless awards show. It used to be that no one showed...
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2008 Oscars Lowest Rated Oscars … EVER
It’s official: most of America kinda don’t really give a friggin’ damn about the Oscars. Then again, when you give a statuette to “The Golden Compass” for best special effects over “Transformers”, you sorta...
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