I forwarded my previous post ‘The Oscars has lost all ounce of respectability as a serious contest‘ to all the relevant movie discussion boards on Internet Movie Database. I was curious to know what the opinions of others were about…
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Interesting Reactions to the ‘The Oscars Has Lost all Respectability’ Post
Tagged with: awards, blue jasmine, imd, Inside Llewyn Davis, oscar nominations, oscars, wolf on wall street
Posted in Movies and TV
Posted in Movies and TV
‘The Oscars’ Has Lost all Ounce of Respectability as a Serious Award Contest
‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ and ‘Blue Jasmine’ (best actress aside) have been shunned from the principal Oscar award categories. How was ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ snubbed for Best Picture, Best Actor, and Screenplay nominations? Likewise ‘Blue Jasmine’ for Best director and Best…
Posted in Movies and TV
Snapshot of my Life as a ‘Temp’
Sitting, peering, folding and unfolding arms. Chewing my Nicorette gum like a man possessed. My third shot for the day. No one smokes at work, which means I can’t smoke either. The place where I work is a government department,…
Posted in Reading, Reflections
Jerry Seinfeld – All Awards are Stupid
As the silly season of movie award ceremonies rapidly approaches, I was reminded of a very funny speech by Jerry Seinfeld aptly titled ‘All Awards are Stupid’. Actually I love this season, because we have an excuse to watch a…
The Shed
I liked lurking in my Dad’s garden shed. There would be his old desk and chair, rusty tools in varying states of disrepair, spare metal, bits and pieces covered with varied layers of dust. I scavenged for stuff in the…
Posted in Reflections
Brazilian Surfer is a Contender for World Record – Biggest Wave Surfed
28 October 2013 saw one of the largest swells of the year at Praia do Norte, Nazaré. In this video witness spectacular surfing and a possible world record for the biggest wave ridden by Brazilian surfer Carlos Burle. This video…
Tagged with: biggest wave, Carlos Burle, Maya Gabeira, Nazaré, portugal, surfing
Posted in Sport and Adventure
Posted in Sport and Adventure
Comedy and the Ages. Lenny Bruce, Charles Bukowski and Hunter S Thompson
George Carlin himself once put it: “Lenny Bruce opened the doors for all the guys like me.” Last night I watched the sobering documentary on the infamous American comedian Lenny Bruce called, Swear to tell the truth. It was disturbing…
Winter Light (1963) – Ingmar Bergman
Marta Lundberg, an atheist local school teacher sits and laments at the church pew because she is deeply in love with a pastor whose faith in God, himself and Marta is dwindling into an existential nothingness. At the point of…
‘Love and Theft’ – American Hustle (2013)
David Russell lent heavily from Martin Scorsese’s best crime dramas to make American Hustle. The narratives, music and editing are an almost direct homage to Scorsese’s 90’s work particularly Casino. Even De Niro makes a key entrance wearing the same…
Tagged with: American Hustle, Amy Adams, Casino, Goodfellas, Jordan Belfort, Martin Scorsese, Silver Linings Playbook, Wolf of Wall Street
Posted in Movies and TV
Posted in Movies and TV
Ingmar Bergman and Wild Strawberries (1957)
Many years ago, I had the audacity to create a list of my 100 favourite movies on IMDB without having seen a single Ingmar Bergman picture. I was more or less cajoled to watch Bergman if my list was to…
Tagged with: Ingmar Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries
Posted in Movies and TV, Reflections
Posted in Movies and TV, Reflections
