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Oscar Mania

Hollywood’s Very Bad Year

2017 started poorly for the entertainment industry. An unprecedented screwup during the Academy Awards led to the wrong film being named Best Picture. That was bad enough, but the ...

Clint Eastwood

Hollywood Sniper

Clint Eastwood's Iraq war drama, American Sniper, reminds me that the central frustration of being a film critic is that there isn"€™t much opportunity to be a tastemaker, ...

Why Does Hollywood Ignore White Slavery?

The Los Angeles Times has congratulated Hollywood for congratulating itself for awarding the Best Picture Oscar to 12 Years a Slave. The gist of the article is that Tinseltown is ...

Documentaries That Weren”€™t Nominated for Best Documentary

As the Academy prepares to celebrate some of the most historically inaccurate dramatizations in recent memory, let us turn from a year of “Based on a True Story” films ...

Anthony Quinn

The Great Hollywood Brownout

Many people claim that they pay no attention to race, but then along comes the Jeremy Lin story to prove again that most folks do. Wikipedia, that embodiment of 21st-century ...

Tarantino vs. The Coen Brothers

The inflation from five to ten in Best Picture Oscar nominees means that to have any hope of keeping them all straight in your head, you"€™ll need to group them. Fortunately, ...

What Bigelow Learned From Cameron (And Vice-Versa)

As you"€™ve no doubt heard by now, leading Oscar nominees Avatar and The Hurt Locker are directed by ex-spouses: James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow, who were married from ...

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