Category Archives: Academy Awards

2011 Oscar Nominations Announced

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Shannon Hood

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the 83rd annual award ceremony this morning. The King’s Speech was the front-runner with 12 nominations. Overall, there weren’t too many surprises. Many were disappointed that Christopher Nolan … Continue reading →

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War Movie Mondays: ‘Sahara’ (1943)

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick is a unique look at behind the lines action during the North African campaign in the early days of World War II. Zoltan Korda directs the 1943 Columbia Pictures release of Sahara, a morale booster of a … Continue reading →

Posted in Academy Awards, Classics, Columbia Pictures, Drama, DVD, DVD Reviews, Editorial, Foreign Films, Netflix, Reviews, War, War Movie Mondays | Tagged Bruce Bennett, Carl Harbord, Dan Duryea, David Lean, Guy Kingsford, Humphrey Bogart, J. Carrol Naish, Kurt Krueger, Lloyd Bridges, Louis Mercier, Patrick O' Moore, Rex Ingram, Richard Nugent, Sam Peckinpah, Zoltan Korda | Comments Off

War Movie Mondays: ‘The Wind and the Lion’

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Douglas Barnett

Happy New Year to all you faithful War Movie Monday fans, and thank you for a fantastic year of classic war films. This week’s pick to ring in the start of a new year is the John Milius 1975 classic … Continue reading →

Posted in Academy Awards, Biopic, Columbia Pictures, Drama, DVD, DVD Reviews, Editorial, MGM, Netflix, Reviews, War, War Movie Mondays, Warner Bros | Tagged Brian Keith, Candice Bergen, Geoffrey Lewis, Jerry Goldsmith, John Huston, John Milius, Sean Connery, Steve Kanaly, Steven Spielberg, Vladek Sheybal | 2 Comments

War Movie Mondays: ‘Stalag 17′

Posted on December 27, 2010 by Douglas Barnett

Merry Christmas to all you War Movie Monday fans and thank you for following this year’s cavalcade of classic war pictures. This week’s pick is in honor of the Christmas season, with the 1953 William Wilder classic Stalag 17 which follows … Continue reading →

Posted in Academy Awards, Classics, Comedy, Drama, DVD, DVD Reviews, Editorial, Netflix, Paramount, War, War Movie Mondays | Tagged Don Taylor, Donald Bevan, Edmund Trzcinski, Gil Stratton, Harvey Lembeck, Neville Brand, Otto Priminger, Peter Graves, Richard Erdman, Robert Strauss, Sig Ruman, William Holden, William Wilder | 2 Comments

War Movie Mondays: ‘Tora! Tora! Tora!’

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Douglas Barnett

Greetings War Movie Monday fans. This week’s pick is the 1970 20th Century Fox classic Tora! Tora! Tora! which depicts the attack on Pearl Harbor on Sunday December 7, 1941 as seen through the eyes of both the American and … Continue reading →

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James Franco & Anne Hathaway To Host The 2011 Academy Awards

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Matt Raub

It’s a pretty big decision to choose the host of The Academy Awards every year. There have been some epic hosts in the past, and some pretty bad ones. One thing is for sure, it’s going to be hard to … Continue reading →

Posted in ABC, Academy Awards, Announcements, Awards, Casting, Movies, News, TV | Tagged 127 Hours, Academy Awards, Alice in Wonderland, Anne Hathaway, Becoming Jane, Bride Wars, Date Night, Devil Wears Prada, James Franco, Love and Other Drugs, Milk, Oscars, Pineapple Express, Spider-Man | 2 Comments

War Movie Mondays: ’1941′

Posted on November 8, 2010 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick is the 1979 least known and only comedy from director Steven Spielberg, 1941 which stars Saturday Night Live originals Dan Aykroyd (Sgt. Frank Tree), and the incomparable John Belushi (Capt. “Wild” Bill Kelso, U.S. Army Air Corp.) Other … Continue reading →

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War Movie Mondays: ‘Saving Private Ryan’

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Douglas Barnett

This week’s pick salutes Steven Spielberg’s epic Saving Private Ryan (1998) which tells the story of an eight man rifle squad which is chosen to find and safely bring back Pvt. Ryan after it is discovered that his three older … Continue reading →