Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

My office is right near the Capitol and I can barely hear the protestors trying to "drown out" the State of the Union address, which is ongoing. All I hear is some guy who sounds like a dying cow. If I can't hear them, it's pretty evident that nobody inside the Capitol can hear a damn thi...

More Bush duplicity on NSA spying. And to think, I live down the street from this lying ass. January 26, 2006 Los Angeles Times: Words, Deeds on Spying Differed Even as warrantless U.S. eavesdropping was being conducted, the White House opposed easing rules on the issue in 2002 to avoid public deba...

I just love how Albee found the title of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" as a message scrawled in soap across a bathroom mirror in a gay bar. That is just so classic. In Susan Edmiston's book, Literary New York , she reports Albee entered a bathroom in a bar and saw WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRG...

Not all conservatives are raving lunatics with closed minds. See criddic, it's really hard when the conservative right (btw, The Unification Church has spent over $1 billion establishing The Washington Times and subsidising its losses) does the same thing by lumping all liberals into one big whinin...

A great article from the San Francisco Chronicle: Why neocons can't stop landslide of 'Brokeback Mountain' by Mark Morford Friday, January 20, 2006 There is this theory, more of a truism, really, tossed about like a fuzzy beach ball by the gurus and the masters and the mystics since Jesus was but a...

But, more than that, has anybody else noticed that's it's also essentially a reimagining of A Place in the Sun (An American Tragedy)? Poor boy (Montgomery Clift/Jonathan Rhys Meyers)--with a parent who is heavy into religion--moves to a new locale, becomes involved with a wealthy family and is dazz...

I just finished Ishiguro's latest "Never Let Me Go" and thoroughly enjoyed it. It is a strange and heartbreaking story. Almost all of the book is a young woman's memories of the boarding school school she attended and the relationships she developed with her fellow students and faculty. I...

SUPPORTING ACTOR Tom Cruise, Interview With the Vampire [In a vampire role, Cruise claimed his third nomination. Are you absolutely kidding me? Cruise's performance in Interview With the Vampire was one of the hammiest, shlockiest things I'd ever seen. If he deserved any award for it, it was a Razz...

regarding Bullock, you have to give her credit for 'pronouncing' the word f*ck convincingly as well as shockingly, to say the least... would you expect that to come out from Miss Congeniality?... i say, Haggis, you're da man... Personally, I just think Sandra Bullock is a bad actress. She does the ...

I had no problem with the first half hour as we're experiencing first hand what silence passes for conversation in the mountains between two men who know nothing about one another. I think it helps us understand the isolation of each of these men and why the companionship is so key to the developme...

I'm not sure if I agree with you Franz Ferdinand on Tommy Lee Jones' competition. I thought Leonardo DiCaprio was darn good that year and should have won. I actually think you are agreeing with Franz Ferdinand. This poll is for the worst winner they've chosen. Leo or Ralph should've taken home that...

I've seen the film twice, now (took my mom to see it, as I knew she'd enjoy it, and even she remarked on the hypocrisy of the family), and SJP improved on a second viewing--there's no denying this lady has incredible comic timing. I agree, it's a very enjoyable film and nothing like the critics wer...