Inception

                 So, update on my quest to actually know what I'm talking about when I make posts about the Oscars. So far I have seen seven of the ten films nominated for best picture. All that remains are True Grit, The Kid's are All Right, and...sigh... The King's Speech. I only haven't seen True Grit yet because I'm planning to see it with friends on Monday or Tuesday. The King's Speech is a film I've been avoiding for all the reasons I've detailed in various other posts, and I just watched the trailer for The Kids Are All Right and it looks like the kind of movie I have less than no interest in watching. However in the interest of being fair I will go and watch every movie nominated for best picture, as well as the films that have actors and actresses nominated for those relevant awards. So let's get this show on the road. This review is for one of my favorite movies this year, Christopher Nolan's Inception.

The Social Network

             I recently wrote a piece about my Oscar picks and why I think The King's Speech shouldn't win best picture. I felt kind of odd while writing it because I had to say after every movie I talked about that I hadn't actually seen the movie yet. Well, I've decided to change that. I have now seen six of the ten best picture nominee's and I plan to see all of them. I'm going to write an official review for every film, as well as a final list putting the nominees in order of my personal preference. This is the first of the best picture reviews and I thought I'd start off with the movie I think will win best picture: The Social Network

It's Oscar Season.

So far I have seen four of the ten Best Picture nominees. All four were excellent films and certainly deserve to be honoured in the best picture category. As you may or may not know there are three main flavours of best picture nominee. Front runners, spoilers, and it's an honour to be nominated. Our front-runners this year are the documentary known as How to Make a Best Picture Winner a.k.a. The King's Speech and the young upstart The Social Network which is about this new fangled internet thing that most of the members of the academy don't understand. As you may have gathered I'm slightly bitter about this whole thing.

The One That Got Away

Everyone has this. A movie that went into your local theater that you thought you might want to see. And then you don't. Then comes the end of the year and you realize that was the movie that you HAD to see this year. And you missed it. Well, this year for me that movie was The Social Network. Cue Trailer -