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• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Adapted Screenplay 1974

  

  The Contenders: The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz The Godfather Part II (winner) Lenny Murder on the Orient Express Young Frankenstein What’s Missing This is... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Second Verse, Not the Same as the First

  

  Film: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Format: DVD from Cortland Public Library at Cortland Public Library. A lot of the movies I’ve been reviewing lately... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Actress 1990

  

  The Contenders: Anjelica Huston: The Grifters Kathy Bates: Misery (winner) Joanne Woodward: Mr. and Mrs. Bridge Meryl Streep: Postcards from the Edge Julia... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Wednesday Horror: Dead Silence

  

  Film: Dead Silence Format: DVD from Cortland Public Library on The New Portable. There’s something unsettling about dolls. I think it’s the eyes. Because of... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Daniel Striped Tiger

  

  Film: Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Format: DVD from Cortland Public Library on rockin’ flatscreen. Most of my reviews on this site run between 750 and 1000 words. ... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Actor 2000

  

  The Contenders: Javier Bardem: Before Night Falls Tom Hanks: Cast Away Russell Crowe: Gladiator (winner) Ed Harris: Pollock Geoffrey Rush: Quills What’s... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Director 2008

  

  The Contenders: David Fincher: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Ron Howard: Frost/Nixon Gus Van Sant: Milk Stephen Daldry: The Reader Danny Boyle: Slumdog... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Blue Collar, Red Neck, Pink Sequins

  

  Film: I, Tonya Format: DVD from Sycamore Public Library on The New Portable. If you were sentient and aware in 1994, you knew about Tonya Harding. Everyone... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Picture 1968

  

  The Contenders: Funny Girl The Lion in Winter Oliver! (winner) Rachel, Rachel Romeo and Juliet What’s Missing This is such a strong year regardless of the actua... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Off Script: From Dusk Till Dawn

  

  Film: From Dusk till Dawn Format: DVD from Cortland Public Library on The New Portable. Readers of this blog should know by now that I will go out of my way to... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Original Screenplay 2015

  

  The Contenders: Bridge of Spies Ex Machina Inside Out Spotlight (winner) Straight Outta Compton What’s Missing A lot of good movies were released in 2015, and... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Cilice

  

  Film: First Reformed Format: DVD from NetFlix on The New Portable. I find it important, now and again, to remind both myself and readers of this blog about the... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• John Wick, Taxi Driver

  

  Film: You Were Never Really Here Format: DVD from Sycamore Public Library on The New Portable. I didn’t watch the Oscars this year for the first time in a good... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Adapted Screenplay 1936

  

  The Contenders: After the Thin Man Dodsworth Mr. Deeds Goes to Town My Man Godfrey The Story of Louis Pasteur (winner) What’s Missing It’s not a terrible... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Actress 1987

  

  The Contenders: Sally Kirkland: Anna Holly Hunter: Broadcast News Glenn Close: Fatal Attraction Meryl Streep: Ironweed Cher: Moonstruck (winner) What’s Missing... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Wednesday Horror: Urban Legend

  

  Film: Urban Legend Format: DVD from Northern Illinois University Founders Memorial Library on laptop. When someone reinvents a genre or part of a genre, it’s... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Institutionalized

  

  Films: UnsaneFormat: DVD from Sycamore Public Library on The New Portable. One of the realities of the horror genre is that if you look hard enough, you’ll... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Actor 1948

  

  The Contenders: Laurence Olivier: Hamlet (winner) Lew Ayres: Johnny Belinda Montgomery Clift: The Search Clifton Webb: Sitting Pretty Dan Dailey: When My Baby... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Director 2006

  

  The Contenders: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu: Babel Martin Scorsese: The Departed (winner) Clint Eastwood: Letters from Iwo Jima Stephen Frears: The Queen Paul... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Style Over Substance

  

  Film: Fellini’s Casanova Format: DVD from Quincy Illinois Veterans Home Library OCLC Interlibrary Loan on The New Portable. Years ago, when I was working on a B... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES