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  • Coen Brothers Primer: The Coen Brothers

    Nov 29, 2007

    A beginners' guide to the minds behind No Country For Old Men, The Big Lebowski, and much more.

  • 11:13 PM CT -- Best Picture

    Feb 26, 2007

    Man, they're going fast. After Scorsese, how will they let us down? This has been a pretty good night. Great host. Good segments (by and large)...

  • 11:09 PM CT-- The Moment We've All Been Waiting For

    Feb 26, 2007

    Stanley Kubrick never got an Oscar. Orson Welles never got an Oscar. So it would have been okay if Martin Scorsese had never won an Oscar, but it's...

  • 11:02 PM CT -- Best Actor

    Feb 26, 2007

    Now we're in the meat of it. We're thinking there's a chance for a Peter O'Toole upset here instead of Whitaker. (If it's a matter of an actor...

  • 10:54 PM CT: Brush Your Hair, It's The Oscars

    Feb 25, 2007

    ... so says my wife upon seeing poor Philip Seymour Hoffmann introduce Best Actress. This one is a slam dunk for Mirren, of course, but I think it's...

  • 10:50 PM CT--Death becomes us

    Feb 25, 2007

    Ah, the obligatory death reel. That melancholy time when America sheds a single, perfect tear and reflects on the untimely passing of countless...

  • 10:42 PM CT-- Michael Mann On America

    Feb 25, 2007

    I guess I'm supposed to hate these time-sucking montages, but I appreciate Michael Mann's emphasis on the coarse elements that go into building a...

  • 10:30 PM CT: Surprise Of The Night

    Feb 25, 2007

    Wow, apparently the three nominations for Dreamgirls songs split the vote, because there's no way anyone could have guessed that the...

  • 10:29 PM CT -- Melissa Etheridge: Oscar-winner

    Feb 25, 2007

    So, this means Scorsese has to win, right? Becaue now Al Gore, Ben Affleck, Kevin Costner, and Melissa Etheridge all ahve something he doesn't.

  • 10:25 CT PM--Battling cleavage. Also, music of some sort

    Feb 25, 2007

    I'm not saying that the Oscars telecast isn't absolutely riveting but I just watched the clip on Videocracy of the cat watching television. It's...