Well, it's one of those weird Oscar season things — for a foreign performance to stand a chance, it needs to get a significant push from the precursors, which seems to happen almost randomly. That year, the precursors remembered Riva but didn't remember Trintignant, Lord knows why. This year, they remembered…

Something that angers me about that is that they had the perfect opportunity to create the big, memorable Oscar moment that's been tantalizing them for decades, and they threw it away — Riva is practically an icon, the oldest person ever nominated in the category, it was her birthday, and the award was being handed by…

Do instruments of torture count?

This is a very obvious and useless observation, but, for, um, the sake of gender neutrality, it bears reiterating: the cast of Magic Mike is very titillating.

Back when the Oscar nominations were announced, I saw an article on a major news website lamenting The Lego Movie's snub, given that "it was against strong rivals, but they weren't Toy Story-Finding Nemo-Frozen quality." Also, last year, The Hollywood Reporter ran a series of anonymous interviews with Academy voters,…

I'm pretty sure that sequence is the major reason why the song was a hit, because it's really not THAT great a song on its own.

Blue Jasmine and Midnight in Paris were both great. To Rome With Love wasn't great.

I had never realized how badly I want Joaquin Phoenix and Emma Stone to be in a movie together before reading this. Will watch.

I think everybody's trying to give him a big, memorable career revival a la Michael Keaton. The problem, of course, being that Michael Keaton is a lot more talented and a lot more self-aware than Kevin Costner.

I don't know. When comparing the two, we have to take into account that Jonze's first two films were written by Charlie Kaufman, so all he had to do was hold the camera and they would be good. Sofia, on the other hand, usually directs her own screenplays, and she is not as good a writer as she is a director. I think…

Should be clarified, though, that The Babadook was completely ineligible for Oscars anyway because it got an internet release at the same time as its theatrical release.

Why do people put in effort to convince others that something they like is bad? Like, it's one thing to try and persuade someone of a movie's value, because then you may be helping that person see the movie in a more rewarding light and therefore improve their viewing experience, but if somebody appreciates something…

You know what would be really interesting, though? If he had an attractive female colleague who constantly called him out on his BS.

…I actually liked Star Trek Into Darkness.

The best part is that it's capitalized.

I gotta say, it's kind of comforting to know this happens all over the world.

BREAKING: David Schwimmer arrested for cannibalism

"After more than a year of…teens of 18 to 20[,]…Justin Bieber has finally put…the precious gift of his…long…private…part…in…a mixed-up kid who feels too much."

You're right, I'm sure we're all very sorry for being Justin Bieber.

Some days are better than others.