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... 

Rafe caught three out of the four new releases this week, which means a great deal of the show is spent with Rafe talking, including another look behind the curtain of writing and running a website like this. Don’t worry: Rafe’s world is nowhere near as scandalous as Easy A, full of crime as The Town, or desperate as riding in an elevator in an M. Night Shyamalan story. The episode touches... 

I have to open my discussion of The Town with a bit of a disclaimer. I saw a flawed viewing of The Town. The theater the movie was presented in has a history of sound problems, and this showing was no different. Instead of having moments of booming sound at reel changes, the volume of the movie fluctuated wildly, sometimes within seconds. Dialog would be super quiet, then gunshots would roar so loud...