So, the Oscars, you guys. For all the Academy's attempts to make this a real edge-of-your-seat party, it was mostly predictable, plenty boring, and enough with the Slumdog Millionaire already. The…   Read Story »

Can you feel the artificially manufactured excitement? Hugh Jackman should pee his pants any minute now! We'll be livetweeting the red carpet, Barbara, and of course, the actual show ALL NIGHT via…   Read Story »

The Academy Awards are this Sunday duh. And we are, after all, a blog duh. So we will be liveblogging the Academy Awards duh. PARTY TIME! EXCELLENT! SCHWING! We're trying to make it as fun as a…   Read Story »

Cuba Gooding Jr. opened the oven. The frozen stuffed mushroom caps and finger-sized spanakopita he'd bought at Trader Joe's were almost done. He had two bottles of Charles Shaw wine, red and white,…   Read Story »

With the Academy Awards on Sunday, there are only a few more hours left to complete your office Oscar Pool forms! Can't hardly wait! Now, this year it definitely seems like there's a lock on a few of…   Read Story »

Every year around this time, someone writes an article about how the Oscar nominees shouldn't be too excited about winning an Academy Award, because one time Cuba Gooding Jr. won an Academy Award,…   Read Story »

Nate Silver, the guy who created fivethirtyeight.com and blew all the minds with his election night statsticing, brings his Chain Reaction-caliber genius to predicting the Oscars. From the historic…   Read Story »

I continue to not understand why the organizers of the Academy Awards think that they're going to lure in viewers with promises of surprises. First there was the announcement that the presenters…   Read Story »

gabe: do you care about the oscars? lindsay: Actually, yeah. gabe: see, that is the thing lindsay: Not about who wins, but about the pageantry and the memories of being a kid and watching…   Read Story »

After all these months of speculation about whether or not Heath Ledger will win a posthumous Oscar for his portrayal of the Joker in The Dark Knight, he got one step closer this morning...a ghost…   Read Story »