Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

I also thought Dev Patel's was a very wooden performance. The kid who played the littlest Salam (I think that was his name), however, was just a delight. I'm generally not much for cute screen kids but I have to say I kinda fell in love with this kid. The movie, though, not so much. Did anybody els...

Does anyone know for sure; but, I think the Emile Hirsch character is the only one of the principals that is still alive? Cleve Jones (the Emile Hirsch character) is very much alive, as is Anne Kronenberg (played by Alison Pill), who works for the Department of Public Health in San Francisco. The o...

Although I agree with Mr. Tee that the immigration issue in the Visitor is not portrayed with any complexity, I think that this is not what this movie is really about. I think, like The Station Agent, this movie is about the power of friendship; about lonely, disconnected people finding some connec...

I agree that the will of the people can be misguided, but I will repeat myself here: If people want to fight this in court, fine. If they want to have a vote, fine. But you can't have it both ways. Don't spend millions of dollars fighting the proposal before the vote, and then threaten litigation w...

New AP poll debunked by Americablog: New flawed AP poll claims McCain and Obama are tied. Will AP's pollster take Nate Silver's challenge? Joe Sudbay (DC) · 10/22/2008 04:59:00 PM ET The Associated Press has released a poll that shows a much closer race than any other poll out ther. Now, Liz "...

From Salon: Gotham noms kick off award season (ack!) Monday's announcement of the Gotham Award nominees, the semiofficial starter's pistol for awards season -- I know, that's frightening news -- confirms my sense that it has been a strong year for American independent film but not such a strong one...

Thanks Mr. Tee for keeping us abreast of the festival buzz and for your insights. Your posts help me anticipate the films to look forward to. As for Penelope Cruz, I thought she was a knockout in VCB. The film itself is slight and a bit rough around the edges, though entertaining enough. About 95% ...

But how did it play to all those "older white women" who are allegedly so impressed by her? On the discussion thread on the ABC News website, huge numbers of posters keep saying how "mean" and "biased" Charlie Gibson was, and how well Sarah did. And these are people wh...

Just saw Chris and Don: A Love Story, a sweet, funny, poignant documentary about the relationship between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy. There's a lot in this documentary for film buffs, as Isherwood was very much a part of the Hollywood set starting in the 1940s. I laughed out loud when B...

As someone who was employed as a telephone pollster when I was a teen, I feel compassion for pollsters and will cooperate with them if it's convenient. I like having my opinion counted, since I so often find myself in the minority. Beware the insidious push polls, though, which are disguised as opi...