Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

I give "Me And You..." a B-. At times, it did cross over into all out preciousness. Miranda's over the top quirkiness, the younger son's cyberspace adventures, etc. But this is a remarkable achivement for a first time feature director/writer. Scenes that should have made me squirm did not...

An Artist Of The Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro The Interpreter Of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri The Professor And The Madman - Simon Winchester I looked up the books on your list and these three will be going on my list of books to read (along with Skinny Dip). The Professor And The Madman was recomme...

"Are you really so arrogant as to believe we are alone in this universe?"! That is a hostile sounding comment. Perhaps Cruise did not mean for it to come off that way, but it sounds that way to me. I'll bet that if I read a transcript or saw a film of that interview, I would see nothing a...

CINDERELLA MAN Grade B+ Several weeks ago, I posted the link to a trailer for Cinderella Man. One of the comments I made was that the film looked old fashioned, overly sentimental, hokey and manipulative but that I would end up liking it because of the talent and professionalism of those in front o...

Damien wrote:I have it on very good authority that Tom Cruise likes to be a bottom while standing on his head. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

I am in no way implying that Mr. Cruise actually is a gay homosexual.

Now, there's a conversation I would like to have been listening in on!

Mister Tee, good post on Crash. I agree with most of what you wrote. It is certainly a flawed film, but I enjoyed it and I think it was because, IMO, all of the actors did a good job. I thought your bringing up the name Capra was appropos. This seems to be an old-fashioned 1940's "message film...

I think Anwar will stay because he will get a lot of votes from fans who remember his good past performances. His performance last night was his weakest but not a total mess, like Scott and Anthony. I believe one of them should go. Paula rarely gives negative criticism and justifies this by saying ...

To me, the most striking thing tonight was the sour pusses on the two ladies that were eliminated. I know sportsmanship is no longer valued as much as it once was, but this was ridiculous. I have seen many contests on TV with this type of elimination format--some involve talent competition, some sp...

I had a hard time deciding between Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind. My initial reaction was Beautiful Mind because this poll brought back my feelings of bewilderment and disappointment when I saw what Howard and Goldsmith did with this very interesting true story. I read Sylvia Kassar's biography th...