Twitter rant about the Academy Awards

Filed under Film on September 24th, 2008

Will Kate Winslet finally win her first Academy Award next year? Considering it has been long overdue, yes. Talk about travesties! Though, to be fairly honest, she has been up against some strong winners in the years she was nominated. On the other, Marion Cotillard won for 2007, while Julie Christie so should’ve gotten the [...]

Barton-Lohan

Filed under Film on August 4th, 2008

Once there was a time I considered Mischa Barton and Lindsay Lohan to be fine actresses. Barton has this whole weird-body thing going for her, plus the fact that she always seems depressed and lonely. She has some limits to her acting because of this, but somehow she’s able to mesmerize me. I have to [...]

Vain love in “Pride and Prejudice”

Filed under Film on June 27th, 2008

The best line, quite casually said by Elizabeth Bennet to her older sister Jane, remains for me, “I might more easily forgive his vanity had he not wounded mine.” A lot of people keep grudges against each other just because they were scorned before. I have to admit I do that a lot too. My [...]

Will “WALL-E” be Pixar’s first Best Picture nominee?

Filed under Film on March 12th, 2008

In the long history of the Academy Awards there has only been one animated feature that was one of the Best Picture nominees in its year. Don Hahn was nominated for the 1991 masterpiece Beauty and the Beast. Many people believe this was the first and last animated nomination ever, because the Academy Award for [...]