Editor’s note: Welcome to the twenty-ninth of a 32-part series dissecting the 84th Academy Awards, brought to you by the Large Association of Movie Blogs and its assorted members. Every day leading up to the Oscars, a new post written by a different LAMB will be published, each covering a different…
For the halfway-mark LION Award, it’s time to reveal our favorite writers for Best Screenplay. 5. Will Reiser for 50/50 and Abbas Kiarostami for Certified Copy (28 points) 4. Diablo Cody for Young Adult (30 points) 3. Steven Zaillian, Stan Chervin and Aaron Sorkin for Moneyball (49 points) 2. Asghar…
Editor’s note: Welcome to the twenty-eighth of a 32-part series dissecting the 84th Academy Awards, brought to you by the Large Association of Movie Blogs and its assorted members. Every day leading up to the Oscars, a new post written by a different LAMB will be published, each covering a different…
The fourth LION Award is for Best Supporting Actress. This is the most intriguing category I’ve tallied (so far), because of the massive support for three separate Jessica Chastain roles. How many made it or did she split the vote? 5. Jessica Chastain in The Tree of Life (39 points)…
As some of you might have noticed there is a small event this up-coming weekend called the Oscars. A lot of people like to bet or predict the outcome and so do us LAMB’s.I thought I’d plug the two official Oscar prediction pools that we support but also ask those…
Editor’s note: Welcome to the twenty-seventh of a 32-part series dissecting the 84th Academy Awards, brought to you by the Large Association of Movie Blogs and its assorted members. Every day leading up to the Oscars, a new post written by a different LAMB will be published, each covering a…
Guess what? “.blogspot” is gone! You can find the LAMB at largeassmovieblogs.com. The old URL will redirect, but please update your links going forward – thanks! The only victim of this is the “Recently Baah-ed LAMBs” page, which was tied to the old URL. Hope that’s not a big deal.…
The Fogs’ Movie Reviews takeover of the LAMB is nearing completion. First, Dan went and flexed his muscle to get The Shining to be last month’s selection. But that wasn’t enough….no, not by a long stretch. When I announced the new Champions wrinkle, he was all over it, and quickly…
Once again, we here at the LAMBcast pull out our crystal balls and attempt to predict the winners for the upcoming Oscars. Or at least some of them. Rather than cycle through all 24 categories, we cherry-picked 10 of the big ones to prognosticate, while sprinkling in our commentary on…
The third LION Award is for Best Supporting Actor. No major surprises here: 5. Nick Nolte in Warrior (33 points) 4. John Hawkes in Martha Marcy May Marlene (37 points) 3. Brad Pitt in The Tree of Life (57 points) 2. Albert Brooks in Drive (75 points) 1. Christopher Plummer in…
