It really bothers me that “The View from Halfway Down” didn’t win. I’d really love to know how many of the voters actually watch what they vote for.

Still no Condorman

The good news:

Jeez louise, the millions of people who built an entire personality around liking a series of chidlren’s books must be having a rough one.

Yep!

Not to defend this guy in particular, but in principle... isn’t this sexual harassment?

I sincerely scrolled past this thinking it was an Onion headline.

I hear you on that, but the situation with the Oscars seems like a larger issue than The Daily Show (which I love, by the way!) Although the Academy Awards ostensibly represents the worldwide film industry, there’s this tiny group of Hollywood film producers who intentionally create “Oscar bait” films that are all…

The conductor, Leonard Slatkin, has been arguing for doing away with the blind audition process in classical music. He agrees that it was a good idea initially but in the end has hurt the hiring of women and minorities because all one can do is focus on the performance and that actually turns out to be negligible…

What’s next, a best girl?

I’d be interested to see which movies up for Best Picture in the last 20 years or so that didn’t cover these requirements that sound like the absolute bare minimum in being diverse.

I’m sure that white people with zero connection to the entertainment industry will definitely not feel personally slighted by—and overreact to—the news that in four years Universal will need to hire a black hairdresser if they want to compete for an Academy award.

As usual, these numbers are useless without some perspective.

Not to be a wet blanket, but do people actually enjoy table reads? I ask that though realizing I did enjoy the Community table read, but sitcoms are maybe a better candidate for this kind of thing, since they’re joke heavy and short.

Are there movies like Princess Bride, plural? I dunno... I’ve been watching since before ‘87, and I’m not sure what else I would put with it.

WELCOME TO TINY TRAIN WORLD!

“Congratulations, you’ve done so well you get to stay at the Siberian Front for another year.”

I really enjoyed 2012 Dredd, but neither movie project really even tried to capture the black comedy derived from the comic’s utter British bemusement at the American hard-on for authoritarianism. And given that’s an even less marketable angle to pitch than straight action... or whatever Stalone’s version was, it…

Duncan Jones must have learned the secret art of tweeting from beyond the grave from Herman Cain, because holy shit did he get murdered here.