Blake’s 2010 Oscar Predictions – Best Picture and More!

Best Picture

“Avatar”
“The Blind Side”
“District 9”
“An Education”
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“Precious”
“A Serious Man”
“Up”
“Up in the Air”

Who will win? The Hurt Locker.
Who should win? The Hurt Locker.
Everyone knows that this is a race between Avatar and The Hurt Locker. At one point at the end of the year there was a lot of talk about Up in the [...]

Christopher Plummer “The Last Station” – 2010 Best Supporting Actor Academy Awards (Video)

The Academy Awards are a curious event, an actor like Christopher Plummer, with an illustrious career can go almost his entire career without receiving a nomination. The 80 year old actor is receiving his first Oscar nomination for his role as Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station.  Plummer plays the famed author and philosopher in [...]

82nd Annual Academy Awards (Oscars) – 2010 Best Picture Nominees

 
The 82nd Annual Academy Awards are quickly approaching. This year, as most know, the award for best picture is a little different. Instead of the normal 5 best picture nominees, the category has been expanded to include 10. This will spread the voting out a little bit more, and will make the [...]

List of 2010 BAFTA Award Winners

Once again The Hurt Locker claims the top prize, which ones again shows it is the favorite going into the Oscar race. Here is a full list of nominees and winners from the 2010 BAFTAs (winners are in bold):
BEST FILM

AVATAR – James Cameron, Jon Landau
AN EDUCATION – Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey
THE HURT LOCKER – [...]

List of 2010 Academy Award Nominees

Hey there, the Oscar Nominations are out and I thought I would post them here and share some thoughts on them.  Enjoy and let me know what you think.
And if you want to see if you can pick the Oscars better than me, join my group and you can make your picks and change them [...]

The Tooth Fairy

Sometimes when you see the first trailer for a film, you think “That can’t be good.” Such was the case with The Tooth Fairy. The trailer for the film was so bad that I thought it was a satirical piece done by a site like FunnyorDie. Luckily, the film wasn’t as bad as the trailer, [...]

Golden Globe Predictions 2010 – Film

Here we are, a day before the second biggest award show of the movie season. Every year the Hollywood Foreign Press nominate people in the arts of film and television, and every year someone gets angry at the lack of nominations or the fact that the “wrong” person won.
I like the Golden Globes because it [...]

‘Up’ out on Blu-Ray Comba Pack, DVD, and Movie Download November 10th. Enter to Win a Free Copy.

From the revolutionary minds of Pixar Animation Studios and the acclaimed director of MONSTERS, INC. comes a hilarious uplifting adventure where the sky is no longer the limit.
Carl Fredicksen, a retired balloon salesman, is part rascal, part dreamer who is ready for his last chance at high-flying excitement. Tying thousands of balloons to his house, [...]

Great Deals on New Blu-ray Titles at Amazon.com

Now is a great time to pre-order some of the movies coming out on Blu-ray this holiday season. Prices on Blu-ray movies have gone down overall, which is excellent. I can’t believe some of the deals that Amazon has on new releases coming out over the next month or so! If you [...]

“If Movies Were Real,” Viral Video from Smosh

 
What would happen if movies were real?
This is a video from the comedy duo “Smosh,” bringing up the question “what if movies were real?” I can’t tell you how many times I hear someone critisize a movie for not being realistic. But the reality is that most movies would suck if they were just [...]