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News Rick on 26 Feb 2008

Coosa Creek Times, Oscar Wrap-Up Edition

I can honestly say that Sunday’s Oscars were the most satisfying in years, and not just because I beat out my wife at the prediction game, either. As a matter of fact, I wasn’t very good at predicting: just one pick better than 500 (alas, it seems my rule of thumb “If No [...]

Tags: Best Actor, Best Actress, best picture, Daniel Day-Lewis, Joel and Ethan Coen, Jon Stewart, Oscars, Tilda Swinton

Analysis & Commentary and Short Take Rick on 27 Jan 2008

There Will Be Blood: First Impressions

One of the distinctive things about the last years in film was the polarizing of bloggers and critics and others around either Joel and Ethan Coen’s No Country for Old Men or Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood. I’m not sure what to make of it . . . it seemed that they were [...]

Tags: Anderson, Daniel Day-Lewis, Film, movie, There Will Be Blood