You’ll find few bloggers who defend the overlong, montage-packed, drunken-celebrity-slurring Oscar show with a greater sense of being a starry-eyed apologist than me. I’ve written about the shows before and commented across the bloguverse in previous years about how great the edited pieces are, that I don’t give a hang how long the show gets, [...]

Hey, did you know that the Oscars are being given out this weekend?
If you’ve been paying attention, you know how lame I’ve been in any Oscar-related reporting and/or speculation this year, even more so than previous years. But although Burbanked has never been an awards prognostication site, you should not misunderstand that to mean that [...]

About two weeks ago, I was preparing to head out to the movies, and to help me choose my best bet for a presumptive award-winning movie, I asked for your help. You told me to go see There Will Be Blood, and I did exactly as you asked.
Part of my disadvantage of seeing movies 1) [...]

I moved away from Hollywood a little less than 11 years ago, but I’ll tell you right now one of the things I still miss the most: being included in “limited release” dates. Living in L.A., this is never an issue: “limited release” includes you. But now, if I have hopes to see something like [...]

Damn, but I love those Coen brothers!
Anne Thompson at Variety provides an exclusive preview trailer for the upcoming Coen brothers film No Country For Old Men, and this just looks like a whole barrel of effed-up fun, just like we’ve come to expect from Ethan and Joel.
Just listen to the crackling dialogue in this [...]