Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

For me, watching Capote was a bit akin to watching Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead -- a familiar story told from a somewhat different angle. The In Cold Blood details remain gripping after all these years, and I think they give the story most of its motor (notwithstanding the interesting biog...

Mister Tee, does a presidential impeachment/resignation in the future look a little more plausible today? Only if 1) this keeps getting bigger and 2) the Dems take over both houses of Congress next year. All word is that Rove gave Fitzgerald new info the other day, and that's what's forestalled any...

Anyone interested in the close-to-confirmed buzz floating around today should go to dailykos.com for stuff that won't make it onto network until the "i"'s are dotted, but seems awfully legit. What's being bandied about -- major indictments; Cheney's office being directly questioned; civil...

The reports last week -- that indictments were perhaps a day away -- were obviously superseded by Rove's last-minute urge to readdress the grand jury, and Judith Miller's "sudden" discovery of more notes. Fitzgerald, by all accounts, was loaded for bear without these things. As the full a...

Okay, I watched House of Rothschild, and, while it's light-years from being an importnat film, I pretty well enjoyed it in a silly-old-movie way. Arliss is less hammy than in his two 1930-nominated films (I guess by '34 everyone had started to realize stage-to-screen required a little toning down),...

Okay, even if I ignored all the many rumors out there about Cruise...even if everything else that's happened (jumping on the couch, proposing at the Eiffel Tower) didn't have such a ring of falsity about it... A couple that's just got together and is hopelessly in love wants to be just themselves i...

Sorry it took me so long to get to this, Sonic. I rarely mention audience reaction because 1) I can never be sure how to interpret it (I heard many people leaving throughout the last half-hour of the SAG screening of The Pianist; we all know how unindicative that was) and 2) I most often go to Frid...

It's hard to really discuss where A History of Violence goes wrong without committing spoilers, so, be warned: I will spoil something. I wouldn't say the film falls apart in the last half-hour. It continues to hold interest, and more or less resolves itself. And the final scene I think is quite fin...

Damien, what a nice offer. I'm actually a few blocks north of where you imagined (75th, between West End and Riverside), but I'm happy to take you up on your offer. Let me know when/how would be easiest to arrange this. Magilla, you've reinforced my doubts about In Old Arizona. I literally had it i...

What a stretch for hard-to-find nominees. Robinson Crusoe hits DVD, Merrily We Live on TCM...and now, tomorrow at 4PM, Fox Movie Channel has House of Rothschild, a 1934 best picture nominee with George Arliss. To top it off, my local Tower now has on sale In Old Arizona -- the only acting winner I'...

Ronnie Earle has indicted more Democrats than Republicans, so this "partisan prosecutor" thing is a tough sell for all but the happily gullible. And, of course, it has no effect in the trial itself, which will be decided on evidence. Yes, Sonic, DeLay's damage has been extensive -- but th...