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• 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

• Wednesday Horror: In the Mouth of Madness

  

  Film: In the Mouth of Madness Format: DVD from OCLC Interlibrary Loan on The New Portable. I didn’t realize until In the Mouth of Madness started that it starre... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Picture 1954

  

  The Contenders: The Caine Mutiny The Country Girl On the Waterfront (winner) Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Three Coins in the Fountain What’s Missing For a... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Off Script: The Mothman Prophecies

  

  Film: The Mothman Prophecies Format: DVD from Northern Illinois University Founders Memorial Library on laptop. I always, or at least often, appreciate it when ... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Original Screenplay 2014

  

  The Contenders: Birdman (winner) Boyhood Foxcatcher The Grand Budapest Hotel Nightcrawler What’s Missing I don’t have a lot of complaints about this category fo... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Off Script: Friday the 13th Part 2

  

  Films: Friday the 13th Part 2 Format: DVD from Cortland Public Library on The New Portable. I’ve never been a huge fan of the slasher subgenre. Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Wednesday Horror: The Thing (2011)

  

  Films: The Thing (2011) Format: DVD from Sycamore Public Library on The New Portable. When I first heard that there was going to be something like a remake of... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• What a Difference a Year Or Two Makes

  

  Films: Husbands and Wives Format: DVD from NetFlix on The New Portable. This is not going to be easy. The world changed in 2017 with the #metoo movement,... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Adapted Screenplay 1935

  

  The Contenders: Captain BloodThe Informer (winner) The Lives of a Bengal Lancer Mutiny on the Bounty What’s Missing I can’t say that I’m an expert from the film... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES