Yeah, I was very surprised to see Phil say she had no chance in hell of winning, when Oddschecker shows that all nine betting sites offering odds on the Best Actress race have her as the odds-on (in the literal sense of better than even odds) favorite.  Not that betting markets are the be-all and end-all, but they're…

@Scrawler2:disqus Very possible that people just didn't think it was deserving, though for me personally that thought is approximately equally distressing to people not wanting to be seen as pro-torture.

In fairness, the Best Picture nod without the director nod basically makes ZDT one of the four extraneous films that wouldn't have made it in in the old system (not that the Best Picture and Best Director nods always aligned before, but still).  What drives me crazy is the fact the idea of ZDT suffering because of…

Yeah, I'm still bitter about Hooper beating Fincher, and it would have been nearly as bad to see him steal a nod for a movie where he barely strays from his low-angle close-up comfort zone, so I was pretty pleased to see him get left out.  Unfortunately, I barely got to revel in this at all because Bigelow didn't get…

Yeah, I'm still bitter about Hooper beating Fincher, and it would have been nearly as bad to see him steal a nod for a movie where he barely strays from his low-angle close-up comfort zone, so I was pretty pleased to see him get left out.  Unfortunately, I barely got to revel in this at all because Bigelow didn't get…

Letterman at least has always had a premium of at least ten percent compared to Leno.  The only numbers I can find at the moment are in Ad Age for 2008 and 2009, and you can see that even the 2008 revenue number for Dave is far higher than Jay's, even in that year which was before the Conan fiasco and before Tonight's…

Have you seen Out of the Past?  My all-time favorite movie, and I'd argue Mitchum, my all-time favorite actor, is even better in that.

I'm always too lazy to go into the many different reasons with my family why it's awful, so I generally just take the lazy moral high ground route and say I'm uncomfortable with it playing Leonard's (is that his name?) Asperger's for laughs.  Pretty much ends the discussion.

I'm always too lazy to go into the many different reasons with my family why it's awful, so I generally just take the lazy moral high ground route and say I'm uncomfortable with it playing Leonard's (is that his name?) Asperger's for laughs.  Pretty much ends the discussion.

I'm obscenely pleased that Nathan included Letterman on his ballot.  I'll even forgive him his (mis)use of the name of Dave's NBC program, something which is a hang-up of mine that I usually can't overlook.

I'm obscenely pleased that Nathan included Letterman on his ballot.  I'll even forgive him his (mis)use of the name of Dave's NBC program, something which is a hang-up of mine that I usually can't overlook.

Yeah, any frame from that scene could be sold as art.

Yeah, any frame from that scene could be sold as art.

I was really hoping the scene with Michelle Williams and Luke Kirby on the Scrambler in Take This Waltz would make this list, especially since Take This Waltz didn't get any love in any of the individual top fifteens.  That scene's been stuck in my head ever since seeing it for the first time.  Such great use of…

I was really hoping the scene with Michelle Williams and Luke Kirby on the Scrambler in Take This Waltz would make this list, especially since Take This Waltz didn't get any love in any of the individual top fifteens.  That scene's been stuck in my head ever since seeing it for the first time.  Such great use of…

If only.

If only.

The first on your list of docs should be "How to Survive a Plague."

The first on your list of docs should be "How to Survive a Plague."