Friday, December 12, 2008

Odds and ends

-- The Quad-Cities theaters don't have a single Oscar contender playing right now unless you count "Australia," which I don't. We do, however, have "Delgo," an animated film with a metacritic score of 28 which includes the voice talents of Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt, meaning it may well have been sitting on the shelf since the late '90s.

-- "Pushing Daisies" just keeps getting better, making its cancellation all the sadder. This might be the best network TV show since the early seasons of "Homicide."

-- My most anticipated movies yet for this year:

1. "Synecdoche, New York"
2. "Slumdog Millionaire"
3. "The Wrestler"
4. "Happy-Go-Lucky"
5. "Frozen River"
6. "Rachel Getting Married"
7. "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
8. "Milk"
9. "Revolutionary Road"
10. "Man on Wire"

-- As usual, the Golden Globe nominations had some surprising good (Franco, Downey Jr., all the "In Bruges" nominations) and bad ("Mamma Mia"? really? the continued overrating of "Vicky Christina Barcelona" and no TV nominations for "Pushing Daisies").

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