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84th Academy Awards (Oscars) Nominations
The 84th Oscar nominees were announced this morning. While there weren’t that many surprises (Hugo and The Artist have almost a billion nominations each), there were some shockers in the bunch (The Adventures of Tintin was not nominated for Best Animated Feature).
I’ll be offering some commentary on the nominations during the Weekly Movie Podcast tonight as well as looking at the Golden Globe winners from last week and the BAFTA nominations which also were announced a couple of days ago. There will also be an in-depth look into the Academy Awards nominations and the Golden Globes winners this Friday in the Weekly Movie Newsletter (along with reviews of many of the films nominated for both sets of awards).
Click more to see the nominees for the 84th Academy Awards.
69th Annual Golden Globes Live Blog
10:58 – YAY! It’s over! The Weekly Movie Newsletter will be up on Monday night and there will be a Movie Podcast up on Tuesday recapping the entire show.
10:57 – Music to tell people to get the hell off the stage count: Ten
10:55 – Keep in mind that I really liked The Descendants, I think this was junk. There were two films that were better.
WINNER: The Descendants Best Picture – Drama
10:49 – I see we’re rewarding mediocrity. I like George Clooney but I don’t think this was even close to his best work. However, considering how this night has been, I just have to shrug my shoulders.
WINNER: George Clooney (The Descendants) Best Actor – Drama
Weekly Movie Post–January 15, 2012
Weekly Movie Podcast – January 15th, 2012 <37 mins – 25.3MB>
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The 2012 Golden Globes page is now up.
Golden Globes talk and predictions…listen now and see how awesome my predictions are.
Continue reading for the top five charts from last week’s box office (all data coming from www.the-numbers.com). There’s also a list of all the movies coming out this weekend in theatres and the movies that were released for the home video market this week (with trailers where available).
2010 BAFTA Award Winners and Commentary
In one of the major shows before this year’s Oscars, one of the major battles between the two biggest films of the year ended up being a blowout. Not only did Katheryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker take the Best Film category from James Cameron’s Avatar at tonight’s BAFTA ceremonies but dominated the show with six wins. Avatar had to settle for only two wins. Bigelow also defeated Cameron for the Best Director award as well.
82nd Annual Oscar Nominations Recap and Podcast
Madness Brewing 2010 Oscars Nominees Recap Podcast – 34 mins (15.6 MB)
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Join myself, Jamie Gore, and Chris Karpyszyn as we talk about this past Tuesday’s Oscar nominees. We’re both not happy. He doesn’t really care for award shows and I think this year’s whole process is awful. We don’t need ten nominees for best picture. It’s beyond ludicrous. Also, although I rather liked District 9, I recognize that it’s a broken film. The last twenty minutes looked like a what-not-to-do for filmmaking. Yet it got nominated for several awards it shouldn’t have like Best Picture and Best Editing. Completely stupefying. Have a listen as we sound more like fifty-somethings complaining about how these films are on our lawn rather than the twenty-somethings that should be talking about how edgy the Academy is being this year with their bold choices. I think I’m not going to be the most fun guy to hang around with on March 7th.
*Sorry about the delay but as you can tell by listening to the podcast, I’ve still got some audio issues. I apologize about the quality but considering that in the last week I’ve recorded FOUR podcasts that were essentially inaudible, I’m happy that at least you can hear what I’m saying. If I sound distracted, it’s because I kept noticing that the audio kept spiking for no reason and my computer kept increasing the volume on my microphone for kicks, I suppose. You may hear funny pops and other nonsense because of that or me trying to correct the problem. Hopefully I’ll have everything fixed shortly.
Click below for the list of a list of all the nominated titles by the total amount of nominations they received as well as Youtube links for the trailers and links to the ones I’ve reviewed. Below the table is a a list of all the categories with each film nominated.
Julie & Julia (Movie Review)
Movie Review
Julie and Julia
2009
Starring: Meryl Streep, Amy Adams
Directed by: Nora Ephron
Movies that seem to have split personalities rarely are any good. But usually this "two-movies-in-one" problem is unintentional and are examples of bad filmmaking. Julie & Julia is like watching two movies in one but that’s how Nora Ephron intended. It’s the story about Chef Julia Child and a blogger who created a site based on her experiences cooking her way through Child’s cookbook The Art of French Cooking. The movie is presented through the lives of the two women. The problem is that one story is really interesting and entertaining and the other story is annoying and feels time consuming.
67th Annual 2010 Golden Globes Recap and Podcast
Madness Brewing Golden Globes 2010 Recap Podcast – 23 mins (10.7 MB)
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Last night was the Golden Globes and it was something. I’m not sure exactly what that something was but whatever it was lasted three hours and was kind of bizarre to watch. Nobody ran away with the awards since 20 productions took home awards in 25 categories. There were few multiple winners. Listen to the podcast above to get a rundown of all the categories and some opinions of some of the awards and the event in general. Continue reading this post to see all the winners and some interesting statistics about the awards including which productions were the real losers of the evening and how much each award cost compared to a film’s budget.
It’s Complicated (Movie Review)
Movie Review
It’s Complicated
2009
Starring: Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin, John Krasinski
Directed by: Nancy Meyers
There are times when you watch a movie and you need to think about it after the viewing to know if what you had just watched made any sense. It’s Complicated is one of those movies. The movie is riddled with problems that even a first-year film student would have been disgusted with. It’s not like Nancy Meyers is new to directing or anything. Despite the problems, the movie is worthwatching solely for Meryl Streep and John Krasinski.
Golden Globes 2010 Nominations and Podcast
Madness Brewing Golden Globes 2010 Podcast – 34 mins (15.5 MB)
*You may notice some sound issues at certain parts of the podcast where the levelling seems off. Skype was acting weird when we recorded this.*
I completely forgot that the Golden Globe nominations today so when I saw the news of the nominees, I pestered Chris Karpyszyn enough so that he’d agree to do a podcast where we’d discuss the nominations. Let’s just say, we’re not fans. It’s not that we have anything against the good movies that were nominated (they hit the mark on the movies that should have been nominated and only missed a few acting performances that were noteworthy). We have a problem with some really of the poorer selections (like House receiving a best TV series nod from one of its worst seasons; and this is coming from a huge House fan). We tear apart the nomination process and have a couple of laughs along the way. Before anyone comments, I know I realized after recording that I said Sharlto Copley’s name wrong. I still say that the greater insult is that he didn’t even get nominated. At least they didn’t forget about (500) Days of Summer. That was an amazing movie.
Click below to see a list of all the nominees plus a link to trailers for the films and a few of the reviews that I’ve done for a couple of the nominated films.
