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It's time to update my last update to this year's best actress race. Since my last update of this category in September buzz has shifted slightly, although the central front runners have stayed the same those waiting in the wings are adjusting. Tier 1, My Current Predictions 1. Carey ...
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My last best actor predictions where in September. The best actor landscape has changed somewhat over the past couple months, most notably with Jeff Brides entering the scene and a release of a few more of the films with viable candidates. Tier 1, My Predicted Nominees 1. George Clooney, ...
Drama
George Clooney
Up In the Air
Jeff Bridges
Morgan Freeman
Colin Firth
Have you heard of Rev Billy? No, not Billy Grahm the renowned evangelist, but Billy Talen, who's "stage name" is Rev Billy. As part of an activist movement, he uses a choir, revival meetings, and huge theatrics to tour and protest shopping, sweatshops, environmental harm, and the Iraq war. The ...
Comedy
Have you had a chance to see a preview for the film The Messenger . The film tells the story of the people who deliver the news to the next in kin about the death of their family members in war. The film stars Ben Foster and Woody Harrelson as the messengers delivering this news, as well as ...
Action
There is something very communal about Thanksgiving. Historically as a celebration of harvest and giving thanks to God, it is a celebration done not in a vacuum , but something done together. I've been asking myself, 'Why turkey?' And, I'm sure there's some historically significant reason we ...
Other
I realized that I started this post a month ago, and never finished or published! It's okay! Better late than never! This post could contain a few spoilers, but nothing major. Why does the title for The Informant! have a question mark in the title? I don't fully understand, but whatever. ...
Comedy
The Informant
Matt Damon
The film is The Last Station written and directed by Michael Hoffman, based on the novel The Last Station by Jay Parini . Sofya Tolstoy Sofya Tolstoy (or Sophia Tolstaya) is famous primarily for her marriage to Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, author of such classics as Anna Karenina and War ...
Other
Helen Mirren
The Academy Awards documentary branch has announced their shortlist for documentary contenders for this years award. The list of 15 includes some of this years most raved about and publicized documentaries (Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story , Anvil! The Story of Anvil ,and Tyson . The 15 ...
Other
Hello strangecultureblog.com readers. My husband invited me to share a few of my thoughts about the wonderful film called An Education . RC shared his thoughts earlier this week, which you can catch up on here . I can’t promise my posts will be as insightful or as robust as RC’s, truly, I ...
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An Education
The movie The Blindside and the story of Michael Oher and his relationship with the Tuohy's has got me thinking. The last couple months of the year with the holidays in full force, people are often very tuned into the idea of giving and serving others. This is good - I make no complaint. ...
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So, it seems like marketing for The Blindside is pretty heavy, and Sandra Bullock's name is popping up in magazines, newspaper blurbs, and of course the many trailers for this film. And in fact, when I say many trailers, I mean many trailers. The past couple weekends if I'm watching a college ...
Drama
Aaron Eckhart
The Box
Sandra Bullock
Warning: This post is about my thoughts on the film, and thus will contain spoilers. 1. The opening title sequence surprised me, it created a playful lightheartedness. I think I like it, but I'm not completely sure why. Perhaps it helps connect the surprisingly creative/appropriate title of ...
Drama
An Education
About two months ago I posted my rankings of 15 best actor contenders and where, at that time I saw them falling in line for the Oscars. Clearly speculative, these list are for fun, and what makes the race fun is when new viable contenders pop up at the last minute. That's the way it with Jeff ...
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Jeff Bridges
Academy Awards
Call me patient, but I don't understand the rush to release the Top 100 films of the decade, but the UK paper The Times decided to do just that. Of course, list of this nature are just to spur controversy, discussion, and awareness, and the number one film of the decade selected by the times ...
Comedy
Michael Haneke
These days at work I find myself shooting the breeze with co-workers around the watercooler, it is likely we might be talking sports. First of, we don't have a watercooler...so let me correct mystatement and say we're shooting the breeze around the Flavia Coffee Dispenser (pictured right). ...
Drama
I'm so glad that there is going to movie version of Fantastic Mr. Fox coming out. Not that I'm holding my breathe for it to be the most amazing cinematic experience, but because I love Roald Dahl . Growing up my greatest pleasures in reading seem to jump from the pages of Dahl's books, and ...
Animation
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Here are two pictures I took at Arlington National Cemetery recently on a trip to Washington DC. Recently, as America has been involved in a long-war with many soldiers going around the world for multiple tours, I've been asking myself 'How do we honor our veterans ?' I ask, 'How can we serve ...
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I recently wrote about Robert Zemeckis and his filmography. More specifically, how I wish he would leave behind his obsession of the decade of 3D animated classic ( Polar Express , Beowolf , and 2009's A Christmas Carol ). And lo and behold the bad news I hear today...Zemeckis is rumored to be ...
Adventure
Robert Zemeckis
A Christmas Carol
A couple months ago it was all about Howard Hawks & Cary Grant in our house. Recently it's been about Billy Wilder. Billy Wilder was nominated for 21 Academy Awards and won 6 of those, some for writing, some for directing, and 1 as producer (The Apartment). So, with our recent Hawk's ...
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Billy Wilder
Howard Hawks
21
Academy Awards
The Apartment
The film is Invictus directed by Clint Eastwood. Screenplay by Anthony Peckham, based on the book Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation by journalist and author John Carlin. Nelson Mandela When Nelson Mandela (born Rolihlahla Mandela) was born in July 18, 1918 ...
