The Oscars are over and now it’s time to deconstruct Hollywood’s biggest night. We analyze quite a few aspects of the show, from the awards themselves to host Seth MacFarlane to the strengths and weaknesses of the “theme” of the evening. We discuss some of the surprise awards of the night (although there weren’t many of those) and some of the fallout to come from the festivities,... 

I probably should have put up my actual Oscar predictions a week ago, but let’s be honest: nobody is using what I say to place any bets in office betting pools. There are certainly a lot better qualified people to use as a basis for gambling, say Nate Silver, for example (whose predictions I still haven’t looked at beyond bookmarking the page). Hell, I still haven’t even seen all... 

It’s that time of year again: where we gather together and offer our opinions, “if we ran the Oscars.” Hear who Rafe, Tim, and Thomas would give gold statues to if they ran the show. Some of the picks are predictable, others are outrageous, but they’re all in opinionated fun. But first, a review of A Good Day to Die Hard, Rafe rants about aging action heroes, Thomas belittles Dark... 

The holiday break was nice, but so is returning to discuss a wealth of movies and movie news. This week we offer up reviews of Zero Dark Thirty and Gangster Squad and revisit a few other titles (Django Unchained and Les Miserables, for example) as we review the big news of the year: the Oscar nominees! We also discuss a new element to the show: getting you involved through SpeakPipe. You can use... 

It’s that time of year again: time to see which movies the Academy of Arts and Sciences has selected as nominees for this year’s Oscar awards. I like to think of it as the time of year to see how many movies of substance you actually saw last year. Of course, there are those who critique the Academy for being a bit snobbish and this year should be no different, with high honors being paid to Spielberg’s... 

This is this week’s new episode, but make sure you didn’t miss last week’s episode, which unfortunately also posted today. This week, we start off with a debate between Rafe and Tim regarding the announcement of Seth Macfarlane as the host of the Oscars. Then, we take a look at Argo and Sinister courtesy of Thomas and Doc Rotten. Finally, we continue our Halloween horror-fest with... 

Technical issues rear their ugly head this week, from the lack of a babysitter when it came time to record the show to problems with Thomas’s Skype feed this week. We soldier on and talk about the killer box office take for The Lorax, offer up a review of Project X, talk about the deaths of Davy Jones and Ralph McQuarrie, and analyze what did and didn’t work for this year’s Oscar... 

The 84th Annual Academy Awards took place on February 26th, 2012. Writers of this site and some of our devoted readers and listeners gathered together in the Widescreen Warrior chatroom to talk about the show as we watched it – a movement that illustrated the very theme of the show. Movies bring us together. They highlight the best things of life. They make us laugh and cry, and it’s an... 

It’s been a few weeks since our last show, so we catch up with an old friend and go over what we’ve been doing in the interim, both good and bad. You’ll hear reviews of Wanderlust and Act of Valor and a discussion of why it’s hard to give honest but sometimes negative reviews of movies like Act of Valor or Tyler Perry movies. That doesn’t stop the latest addition to... 

At last year’s underwhelming Oscars ceremony, there were awkward moments aplenty: Melissa Leo pretending that she swore by accident, the wildly uneven energy of co-hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway, and Franco in a dress for no discernible reason. The evening’s most exciting and genuine moment came from Luke Matheny, the writer/director of that night’s winner for Best Live Action Short Film,...