Cosmic Sitcom™

It’s Oscar season, with the first 10-nominee Best Picture category ever. Here’s my take on the competition in all but the technical categories as we leave the starting gate.

Precious is so much more than the depression fest you expect. It provides a shocking and enlightening view of life in the inner city, where faith in the power of literacy and creativity can wring some small bit of hope from the crude morass of poverty and abuse.

What movies are stuck in your DNA? They may not be the best but you keep coming back to them. Here are the 15 rummaging about my ribosomes.

Quick reviews of the films from this past weekend’s marathon excursion to the cineplexes. Highlights: Blue aliens, air travel and steampunk detectives. Lowlights: New Yorkers in Wyoming.

MOUNDS VIEW, Minn. — Snow day means watching movies in my family. Besides our excursion this morning for the first showing of Sherlock Homes (rollicking good fun), we watched Love Actually, one of my favorite movies, and The Holiday. Shot with my iPhone using the Photoshop app.

I nominate the new Internet Movie Database (IMDB) app for the iPhone for the Nobel Peace Prize. Just think about all the arguments it has settled.

With the end of the year rapidly approaching, the Cosmic Sitcom™ and Little Junkies have called a holiday ceasefire on our Craptastic Movies War™ to collaborate on our upcoming respective Best Movies of 2009 lists.

As I summed it up in my 6,600th tweet: Saw Avatar. If hype is how you judge, you’ll be disappointed. It’s Dances with Wolves in space. But I liked it, and the technology will certainly change the way movies are made.

Each year, Hollywood executives name the best screenplays of the year that have yet to be made. It’s called the Black List. In previous years, the list has catapulted dozens of scripts into production and screenwriters out of oblivion. Some of this year’s crop have moved into production, others are stuck in development hell. See what you think.

Blog vs. Blog continues! First a word from one of Junkie1’s fellow “Avatar” haters. Then a lot of words about the crap in her DVD collection. There was some yawning and then some jawing about what crap really is. My take? If it stinks, it’s crap. She yammered on about “criteria” and “redeeming qualities.” ‘Tevs.