Harvey Weinstein’s odious Oscar push
I was rooting for Silver Linings Playbook for Best Picture the other night as suspected I might when I reviewed it last year. It’s probably not quite typical Best Picture quality, but then I would argue neither is Argo. I have to tell you though, when I learned about producer Harvey Weinstein’s efforts to get [...]
It’s a good thing Tarantino and Roth helped out with ‘The Man with the Iron Fists’
The Man with the Iron Fists is one of those movies that gets a little more leeway than it should from stupid critics like me because of the type of movie it is. A kung-fu movie doesn’t have to work on a level that makes all that much sense, nor does it have to do much more [...]
Oscar season is upon us
Goldderby.com is a site that predicts and lets you predict the top showbiz awards. Today they have 18 industry experts predicting their top choices for Best Picture at next February’s Oscars. Six people selected Lincoln as their prediction for Best Picture, the Steven Spielberg directed story of Abraham Lincoln at the end of the Civil War [...]