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I’m sure everyone is bored to death of reading about all this Oscar claptrap, so I’ll keep my picks for the top categories brief. Here are my Academy Award predictions in photos!Best Supporting ActorBest Supporting ActressBest ActorBest ActressBest PictureMost Likely to Be Liz and Laura’s New CrushFilm that will take home the most awards

1. The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke, 1934)2. Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis, 1995)3. The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder, 1945)4. Sideways (Alexander Payne, 2004)5. Animal House (John Landis, 1978)6. Old School (Todd Phillips, 2003)7. When a Man Loves a Woman (Luis Mandoki, 1994)8. Beerfest (Jay Chandrasekhar, 2006)9. All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950)10. Strange [...]

These nicotine-oozing movies are guaranteed to give you a wicked contact buzz…1. Coffee & Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch, 2003)2. 200 Cigarettes (Risa Bramon Garcia, 1999)3. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)4. Breathless/A bout de souffle (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)5. Fight Club (David Fincher, 1999)6. Reality Bites (Ben Stiller, 1994)7. The Good Thief (Neil Jordan, 2002)8. A Fistful [...]

Here are some patterns I’ve noticed from watching entirely too much television and cinema:-School classes always last 5 minutes. Just watch, you’ll see–the bell rings, people sit down, the teacher talks for a minute, and then the bell is ringing a scant few minutes later. Makes for good scene transitions, I know, but it’s also [...]

Happy Halloween, readers!  We hope this night brings you plenty of treats (and all the right kind of tricks). In honor of this, the awesomest of holidays, we’d like to save you precious downloading time by sharing with you Laura’s breakdown of which scary movie sequels are worth watching, and which ones would better be [...]

Did somebody make this film in a drunken stupor? It’s AWFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!Awful!I can’t believe I spent a whole hour downloading it. That’s a total of two and a half hours I’ll never get back. Mike Myers stole them from me.Let me count the ways I hate this film:1. It is really racist and offensive. If I [...]

When I originally heard them folks in Hollywood were adding a fourth film to the beloved Indiana Jones trilogy, I couldn’t help but think this was a somewhat awful idea. It irks me when tired movie makers dig up and reuse an idea that is already solid in movie history and holds an important place [...]

Laura here, reporting from my couch in Brooklyn. Like many of you, I watched the Oscars this year hoping for fun and excitement, and instead was met with a barrage of boredom. Regardless, the Academy shone its spotlight on indie talent this year in a rare departure from tradition, and you have to give them [...]

Yes, the time has come again to curl up with your favorite guy or ghoul (hahahahahaha… sorry), tear open a fresh five-pound bag of candy (or three!) and watch something that scares the shit out of you. Happy Halloween, fair readers!10. Dead Alive/Braindead (Peter Jackson, 1992)This classic horror-comedy still represents Peter Jackson’s best [...]

Apparently, Paris Hilton is in this shittacular movie, along with Sarah Brightman (from “Phantom of the Opera,” and little else) and Spy Kids’ Alexa Vega, of all people. Tell me it isn’t the most confounding preview of the year, next to that Lindsay Lohan stripper/killer movie.Official Movie Trailer: REPO! The Genetic Opera (2008)This movie [...]