Kate Winslet finally won her Oscar, delighting the bulk of fans who have been rooting for her since she dreamt of Hollywood in '94 -- 'they're desperately keen to sign me up!' -- or nearly drowned in '97. She never let go. So, who is next? Or rather... who is most overdue? Contrary to popular belief...

Tuesday Top Ten: For the listmaker in me and the listlover in you First things first, this disclaimer: I watch so little television that I'm rather like a SAG and movie awards show voter voting on the best of the film year having only seen 15 movies or so... (oh, come on, you know that's how they do...

updated to correct box office errors With Twilight , the high school vampire romance, opening to huge box office, various websites are talking about director Catherine Hardwicke's "achievement". For the most part I hate the notion that box office is an achievement (maybe it is but it's no meritocrac...

It's Tuesday Top Ten AND November's musical of the month. When you overplan it's best to kill two birds with one stone. (Guess who overplans?) Velvet Goldmine , auteur Todd Haynes' marvelous, sexy, agitated tribute to glam rock celebrates its 10th anniversary this month. A decade later it's still qu...

tuesday top ten: for the listmaker in me and the listlover in you Naturally the year will get better from here. "It will, won't it?" he asked in a panicky sweat. These are the ten best of 2008 from January to June (from what I've seen). The most serious omission on my part is In Bruges which won fin...

for the list maker in me and the list lover in you The Oscars used to hide their membership roster like they hide the final vote tallies. But for the past few years they've been letting us know who they've invited into their 6000 wide flock. They're trying to keep their numbers stable so we figure t...

Totally true reasons why I did not prepare a Tuesday Top Ten for today. 01. I was attending a junket for a freelance job. I met Brittany Snow so you know I had to ask her about working with Michelle Pfeiffer (on Hairspray). Yes, I am shameless. 02. I was working on future posts. 03. I had to run err...

It's hard to avoid the continual reportage of which movies are opening huge or flopping. Box office is more important to moviegoers than ever. One assumes at some point this fascination will turn back to the actual content of the movies but until the happy day when the pendulum swings, here are thre...

tues top ten: for the listmaker in me and the listlover in you With the release of Prince Caspian right around the corner, I thought we'd take a look at some other royal boyz 2 men in the movies... Top 10 Princes 10 "Prince Hector" (Eric Bana) in Troy Straddling the abyss that opened between Brad Pi...

Tuesday Top Ten: For the listmaker in me and the listlover in you The days of Tivo / DVR have finally defeated me and I now find myself regularly watching television... even if I'm not really writing about it yet. No longer dependent on air times, I actually enjoy it --occasionally. Let's not get cr...