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Pick of the Week: Where the Wild Things Are
Since all the buzz this week will mostly be about the aftermath of the prestigious Oscars, it’s time…
2010 Oscar Coverage
Since the 82nd Annual Academy Awards will be held tonight at 8:30/7:30c, MovieOvermind will be bringing you live…
Pick of the Week: Black Dynamite
Here’s a fun new segment that I’m going to start up, simply to give the podium to some…
5 Mindbending Movies
If you haven’t already seen Martin Scorsese’s newest flick, Shutter Island, yet, then I seriously suggest you do…
Cinema Overmind: January 29, 2010
This week only brings two major releases, and they come from complete opposite ends of the spectrum.
Edge of…
DVD Overmind: January 26, 2010
DVD Overmind is back! This week we have a ton of late summer/early fall releases set to hit…
Tom Hanks, rushed for time, strode onto the stage and announced that The Hurt Locker won the big prize: Best Picture of 2009.
I disagree with this very strongly. The Hurt Locker was a good film, but I don’t think it deserved…
It was perhaps the second-closest race of the night, but Best Director finally came to a close with one of the two logical winners taking home the statue-ette. Ex-spouses James Cameron and Katherine Bigelow fought it out for Avatar and The…
After a rambling introduction by Sean Penn, who presented the award, the Academy Award for Best Actress went to Sandra Bullock for the film The Blind Side. While I’m not a huge fan of the film (I consider it to…
Tonight has not really been a night of surprises, and this continues that trend. Jeff Bridges won the award for Best Actor for his performance in Crazy Heart, as I predicted he would. I think Bridges deserves the award, especially…
This was one of the gimme categories. Unsurprisingly, Mo’Nique won for her role in Precious, in which she portrayed the terrifying Mary Jones, mother of the title character.
“I’d like to thank the Academy for showing it can be about the…
Geoffrey Fletcher just won Best Adapted Screenplay for Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire. I know it wasn’t what I predicted, but I’m still fine with it. I would have preferred that District 9 would have won, simply because…
And, finally, the first disappointment of the night. Mark Boal won for The Hurt Locker. While I’ll agree that this film was very good, that goodness wasn’t necessarily reliant on the screenplay. I felt that Inglourious Basterds was much, much more…
Like Christoph Waltz’s win before it, Up’s win was so obvious that they might as well have handed Pete Docter the award as he walked through the door. It was preceded by a nice little set of “interviews” with animated…
I think we all knew this was coming, but it’s no less satisfying to see Christoph Waltz take home the statuette for Best Supporting Actor. He was fantastic as the “Jew Hunter,” Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds. Waltz had already…
And finally, the big one. This year’s Best Picture nominees were even more numerous than ever, due to the expansion of the category into ten slots instead of just five.
Of course, despite that there are ten slots, the race is…
The first of these final two races is a clencher, due to the fact that all of the nominees are really deserving. However, as good as Quentin Tarantino (my favorite director), Lee Daniels, and Jason Reitman are, the race is…
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Oscar Reactions – Best Supporting Actor
I think we all knew this was coming, but it’s no less satisfying to see Christoph Waltz take home the statuette for…
Oscar Predictions – Best Picture
And finally, the big one. This year’s Best Picture nominees were even more numerous than ever, due to the expansion of the…
Oscar Predictions – Best Director
The first of these final two races is a clencher, due to the fact that all of the nominees are really deserving.…
Oscar Predictions – Best Actor
This year’s Oscars have a healthy mix of clenchers and no-brainers, and the Best Actor award is one of the n0-brainers. Jeff…
Oscar Predictions – Best Actress
As much as I hope Sandra Bullock doesn’t get it (on principle more than anything else), she most likely will win the…
Oscar Predictions – Best Supporting Actor
Like the Best Supporting Actress award, this year’s Best Supporting Actor award is a giveaway — it’s going to Inglourious Basterds’s Christoph…
Oscar Predictions – Best Supporting Actress
It’s silly to think that anyone other than Mo’Nique will win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. After her moving acceptance speech…
Oscar Predictions – Best Original Screenplay
As a writer, this is perhaps my favorite category. As I said about the Best Adapted Screenplay, though, you can’t really tell…
Oscar Predictions – Best Adapted Screenplay
Predicting the screenplay categories is very difficult, especially considering the fact that we haven’t actually read any of the screenplays being nominated…
Oscar Predictions – Best Animated Feature
In this part of our Oscar preshow, we’re going to take a look at the five nominees for Best Animated Feature, and…
Pick of the Week: Where the Wild Things Are
Since all the buzz this week will mostly be about the aftermath of the prestigious Oscars, it’s time to look at a…
2010 Oscar Coverage
Since the 82nd Annual Academy Awards will be held tonight at 8:30/7:30c, MovieOvermind will be bringing you live coverage of the event.…
‘Wanted 2′ Won’t Happen
Be careful! If you haven’t seen Wanted and do not wish to be spoiled, do not read on.
One of the strangest action films…
‘Hurt Locker’ Producer Breaks Oscar Rules
Here’s a good idea: when campaigning for the Academy Awards, don’t insult the other film. After all, the awards are based on…
Pick of the Week: Black Dynamite
Here’s a fun new segment that I’m going to start up, simply to give the podium to some of my favorite movies,…
5 Mindbending Movies
If you haven’t already seen Martin Scorsese’s newest flick, Shutter Island, yet, then I seriously suggest you do so. The entire film…
Ian McShane as Blackbeard in ‘Pirates 4′
Though the end of Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End featured Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) and his crew stealing Captain Jack Sparrow’s (Johnny…
