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• Sucker!

  

  Films: Dracula: Dead and Loving It Format: DVD from Northern Illinois University Founders Memorial Library on various players. How exactly does this happen? Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Actress 2008

  

  The Contenders: Angelina Jolie: Changeling Meryl Streep: Doubt Melissa Leo: Frozen River Anne Hathaway: Rachel Getting Married Kate Winslet: The Reader... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Opera, Yes. Phantom? Not as Much

  

  Film: Phantom of the Opera (1943) Format: DVD from Cortland Public Library on basement television. I’ve seen multiple version of Phantom of the Opera, and I hav... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Worst of the Worst?

  

  Film: Plan 9 from Outer Space Format: DVD from Northern Illinois University Founders Memorial Library on The New Portable. Just as people are going to go back... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Actor 1965

  

  The Contenders: Lee Marvin: Cat Ballou (winner) Laurence Olivier: Othello Rod Steiger: The Pawnbroker Oskar Werner: Ship of Fools Richard Burton: The Spy Who... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Devil's Playthings

  

  Film: Idle Hands Format: DVD from Northern Illinois University Founders Memorial Library on The New Portable. Horror comedies are evidently really hard to... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Director 2009

  

  The Contenders: James Cameron: Avatar Kathryn Bigelow: The Hurt Locker (winner) Quentin Tarantino: Inglourious Basterds Lee Daniels: Precious Jason Reitman: Up... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Why Remake This?

  

  Film: ManiacFormat: DVD from Cortland Public Library on The New Portable. Remakes tend to have a poor reputation, and with reason. Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Thing's Starring Role

  

  Films: I Lost My Body (J’ai Perdu Mon Corps)Format: Streaming video from NetFlix on basement television. It seems that in a futile effort to watch as much as... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Original Screenplay 1994

  

  The Contenders: Bullets Over Broadway Four Weddings and a Funeral Heavenly Creatures Pulp Fiction (winner) Three Colors: Red What’s Missing 1994 is such a good... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Stop Bugging Me!

  

  Films: PhenomenaFormat: DVD from NetFlix on The New Portable. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again—I’m not a massive fan of a lot of Italian horror. So muc... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong: Best Adapted Screenplay 1943

  

  The Contenders: Casablanca (winner) Holy Matrimony The More the Merrier The Song of Bernadette Watch on the Rhine What’s Missing There probably aren’t going to... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• I'd Like to Meet His Tailor

  

  Film: Werewolf of London Format: DVD from Cortland Public Library on rockin’ flatscreen. As a long-time Warren Zevon fan, I think I can be forgiven for both... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Actress 2006

  

  The Contenders: Meryl Streep: The Devil Wears Prada Kate Winslet: Little Children Judi Dench: Notes on a Scandal Helen Mirren: The Queen (winner) Penelope... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Blocked at Every Turn, Yeti Persisted

  

  Film: Missing Link Format: DVD from Sycamore Public Library on basement television. I don’t know why Laika can’t catch a break. Missing Link is the studio’s... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Actor 1949

  

  The Contenders: Broderick Crawford: All the King's Men (winner)Kirk Douglas: Champion Richard Todd: The Hasty Heart John Wayne: Sands of Iwo Jima Gregory Peck:... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• One Banana, Two Banana, Three Banana, Death

  

  Films: The Banana Splits MovieFormat: DVD from DeKalb Public Library on rockin’ flatscreen. Sometimes you just know what you’re going to end up doing with your... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Serious Daddy Issues

  

  Films: Son of DraculaFormat: DVD from Cortland Public Library on rockin’ flatscreen. Dracula films are sort of their own thing, at least when you’re dealing wit... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Director 1971

  

  The Contenders: Stanley Kubrick: A Clockwork Orange Norman Jewison: Fiddler on the Roof William Friedkin: The French Connection (winner) Peter Bogdanovich: The... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Funded by Nazi Gold?

  

  Films: Marie-LouiseFormat: Internet video on laptop. I honestly don’t know how much I’m going to be able to say about Marie-Louise. Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES