Normally seeing shadows through the window after viewing noir style films like Blood Simple. and Miller’s Crossing would indicate an overdose of genre. Since three of us saw the same thing, however, we’ll say it wasn’t strictly our imagination. The eerie shadows may interrupt our conversation occasionally, but we still find plenty of time to discuss the Coen brothers, Oscar nominations,... 

It’s that time of year again, as we reach the end of the Awards Season with the 2010 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards, aka the Oscars. While we leave most of the awards hoopla to the annual Oscar Waffle discussion on our forums, we’d be crazy not to highlight the Oscars on the main site. Here are the nominees, along with some commentary on the major categories. This year the key... 

It’s a new year, but most of the movies you hear mentioned over the next two months will probably be last year’s films. Why? Because we’re in the thick of Awards Season. You know Awards Season – the time of year where everyone gets dolled up and strolls down the red carpet looking fabulous (or freakish) so they can receive accolades for their work on notable films such as Norbit or My Cousin... 

We’re midway though November and the early Oscar buzz has started. Already magazines and online outlets are starting their predictions: Who will be nominated? Who will win? It’s a pointless endeavor I find so interesting, mostly because the lead contenders for the Oscars typically haven’t even been released yet. What we wind up with is a bunch of predictions about movies that will be overshadowed... 

Margaret gets a new moniker this week, as the Weekly Blend crew returns to discuss Alice in Wonderland, She’s Out of My League, Green Zone, and more! We kick off our discussion of Artist of the Month Richard Dreyfuss, and explain in show references to Lindsay Lohan and Armond White. All of that, plus our take on Oscar highlights. Weekly Blend #220 – With Lindsay(60 min, 27.51MB) Direct... 

It’s our annual pre-Oscar round up. Listen as Rafe, Margaret, and Jeff round up all the contenders and pick which movies they expect to take home awards next Sunday. Will the recent Hurt Locker controversy cost the movie its statue? Is ten selections for best picture too many? Just what is the value of Jeff’s life in a bet? All that, plus reviews of Cop Out are revealed in this week’s... 

After months of prolonged waiting, Shutter Island has arrived and all three of us are impressed, to say the least. We’re less impressed with The Wolfman remake and Sidney Poitier’s ’80s movies, but we dive into those as well. Add in some movie news talk about changes to the Oscars and Kevin Smith, and you have a well rounded hour of entertainment news and reviews. Weekly Blend #218... 

Fans who tried to tune in during our live broadcast know we were facing some computer issues. Little did we know those issues were affecting our broadcast clock as well. What we ended up with is a broadcast that’s two days late thanks to the weather, with a cast that’s spread out in three different locations, and a show that’s fourteen minutes longer thanks to the computer. What a... 

As I said yesterday, we haven’t paid a ton of attention to the various awards on the main site (although our friend Tony has done a great job of keeping track of them on our “super secret” forums which can be found here). The big awards for the industry are, of course, the Oscars, and we’d be foolish not to pay them some attention. So here’s our take on the various nominations, announced... 

We’re back with new reviews of Old Dogs and The Fantastic Mister Fox, as well as Rafe’s survival story after watching Twilight. We also discuss a disappointment in the stacking of votes in our poll for December’s artist of the month, the biggest financial failures in film in the last decade, and more Oscar contenders, as well as two weeks worth of John Cusack in this fully loaded...