It’s the episode that couldn’t be stopped! No illness, no papercut, no fear of Margaret’s yelps could keep us from our annual Oscar roundup. Listen as we discuss the major categories and contenders, offering our choices of winners, and suffering aforementioned paper cuts (no, I’m not kidding). We also announce the Retrospectives – the Widescreen Warrior addition to the... 

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... 

For years the Coen Brothers have been making movies unlike most standard Hollywood fare. While their pictures have cultivated a rather large fanbase over the years, the films themselves are unlike most of the movies Tinsel Town grinds out each year. With their latest offering, a remake of 1969’s True Grit (although, to be honest, the goal was to make a movie more true to the original novel then to... 

Ah, the John Wayne tale of True Grit as done by the Coen brothers. Following the classic story of Mattie Ross wanting to find her father’s killer with the aid of Marshal Rooster Cogburn, we finally get to see a real, and potentially good, western. I know they may seem old fashioned, but I enjoy the western genre as a whole without being a hardcore fan. With Cogburn played by none other than the versatile... 

Each week we take note of some stories circling the Internet that for some reason, whether it be time or fate or lack of personal interest, we don’t wind up covering on the site. By the end of the week, we wind up with a bunch of tabs open on our browsers and newsreaders that just end up sitting there waiting for more attention. Here’s our attempt to put them to some use, allowing us to close the...