Posts Tagged as ‘Academy Awards’

03/11/2010

Cinema Misfits Podcast: Bonus Academy Awards Episode (audio)

Join the Misfits for an evening at the Oscars — or anyway in front of a big screen TV, watching the Oscars. All the predictability and tedium of the original three and a half hour show in less than a third of the time. It’s a show Lou enthusiastically describes as “nice.”

08/25/2009

Why, Oh Why?

Every now and then, the mad geniuses at the Motion Picture Academy drop a little bombshell of an announcement: The 82nd Academy Awards to feature TEN nominees! Ten nominees? Heck. I can barely remember what the top five are every year. Plus, can you imagine how bloated the already over-bloated Oscar ceremony will be with, not five, but ten Best Picture nominees? Oh, good lord, kill me now.