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• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Original Screenplay 1969

  

  The Contenders: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (winner) The Damned Easy Rider The Wild Bunch What’s Missing 1969 is a very... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• One is Too Many

  

  Films: The Two Popes Format: Streaming video from NetFlix on basement television. Say what you will about NetFlix, but the company is aggressively going after... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Melt It Down

  

  Films: House of Wax (2005) Format: DVD from Cortland Public Library on The New Portable. There are horror remakes and there are horror remakes. Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Adapted Screenplay 1945

  

  The Contenders: The Lost Weekend (winner) Mildred Pierce Pride of the Marines The Story of G.I. Joe A Tree Grows in Brooklyn What’s Missing With some of these... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• 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