In retrospect, the show kind of sucked. The presentation, that is. The hosts? Mildly amusing. Presenters like Ben Stiller and the pairing of Tina Fey and Robert Downey Jr. were far more inspired. I loved the opening number with Neil Patrick Harris (making me hope he hosts one year), while the interpretive dance during the […]
Snooch to the Nooch! Well, with the Oscars finally happening on Sunday, it’s now time for my final look at the nominees, and a look at my final predictions (all nominations listed in order of preference), and whether they’ve changed in the past month. Before I get to the festivities, though, an update on where […]
He’s not even done with one project and he’s starting a new one. Story of my creative life. I’ve been working on three different albums for years now. I have several pieces in various forms of completion. And then, there’s “Unwinnable Hand,” which crossed its’ five-year anniversary last September, still without a completed print. Well, […]
Snooch to the Nooch! The title says it all. Actually, it doesn’t this year, but read on. The Oscars are on March 7 at 8pm EST this year, with Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin hosting. Click here for my full pre-nomination selections list. Best Picture Oscar’s Final Ten “Up” “Precious” “Avatar” “Up in the Air” […]
Ok, admittedly it’s a day later than I usually have this up, but with Oscar nominations out tomorrow morning, I gotta get it done. Here are Brian’s choices for what/who he would like to see nominated for an Oscar, not that it matters much. For those curious, still no “Invictus,” “The Blind Side,” “Nine,” “Crazy […]
I’ll admit to being a bit stuck as to how to approach talking about my creative endeavors for the past year, which is part of the reason it’s a bit late. -No concerts of my music performed. -No albums released. -No completed short films. A lot of projects in a sort of limbo. That said, […]
In 1996, I started writing about movies, doing little 100 word writeups for a reader section of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. I got my first of these published in the AJC in 1997 (by the time the feature ended in 2000, 62 had been published). In ’97-’98, my mother and I toyed with the idea of […]
Last year, I decided to start a weekly blog, entitled “A Movie a Week.” Inspired by Roger Ebert’s “Great Movies” series and AICN’s Quint’s “A Movie a Day” (and later, “A Movie a Week”) series, I decided to look at older movies in my collection. Some, I had wanted to write about for a while […]
In all honesty, I’ve been working on this for about half the decade now; the funny thing is, so many of these films stuck so long- a true sense of their worth. For me, the best films of the past decade- the first of the 21st Century, one that has seen filmmaking (and film watching) […]
This past month has shown just how odd things to get in October. The fall just began in September, but the air starts to get cold, the wind begins to breeze, and with the leaves falling off of the trees, those cloudy and rainy days just feel a bit more unnerving than they normally do. […]
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