Film Threat: Cramming For Finals Edition
RECOMMENDED: It’s a shameful affliction and howling first-world problem that will ruin the Sunday night of many this weekend: Not Having Seen ANY Of The Movies Nominated For This Year’s Oscars. Oh, unless you count Juno, which you ALL saw, but I don’t think that will help you all that much when it comes to actually watching the Oscars. No, by the looks of things, the entire program will be in moonman language to you unless you rush out to see Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood sometime between now and Sunday night (trailer at right). TWBB leads the pack in nominations, with the smartest money going on Daniel Day-Lewis to nab Best Actor. (If you want a truly scary view into the mind of degenerate gamblers come Oscar time, take a peek at this.) But if for some reason the theater’s sold out or something, settle for Atonement or No Country For Old Men. And, yes, we can hear you whining already about the snow, so fear not: Michael Clayton and Ratatouille are both available OnDemand currently so look, you don’t even have to leave the house, you boring Philistine. And finally, for the major geeks out there, Academy Award-nominated shorts, both live action and animated, play tonight and tomorrow at Ritz At The Bourse. So if you don’t know, now you know.
ALSO NEW IN THEATRES: Michel Gondry’s much, much buzzed about Be Kind Rewind is finally out this week, starring Mos Def and Jack Black as video store employees who re-invent classic movies on a shoestring budget and unwittingly start a resultant craze called “Swede-ing.” People are stoked about this movie, and we are, too. Also out: Vantage Point, a political thriller about people killing the not-president, The Signal, about people killing everyone, and Taxi To The Dark Side, a doc about how Dick Cheney likes to almost kill people (not hunting buddies).
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