Omelette Directed by: Madeline Sharafian Runtime: 2:30 http://maddiesharafian.blogspot.com/ (thanks Laura G. ) After a pretty rough week this is exactly the kind of short film I wanted to run into – charming, heartfelt, funny and, most importantly, short, which is not always the case with short films. Omelette is a personal little tale about a...
Read more »
Unlike the Best Supporting Actress category, Best Supporting Actor is slightly a lifetime achievement category this year. All of the actors aside from Christoph Waltz has been around forever, and all of them have previously won an Oscar. That makes it hard to handicap though. I’m going to break it down differently than Best...
Read more »
We’re only a week away from the big night now: the 85th annual Academy Awards airs next Sunday night, and I still think Lincoln will have a huge night, or at least a bigger night than the heavy-favorite, Argo. I watched it for a second time this week, and Argo is a really good...
Read more »
For the 8th year in a row AMC Theaters is bringing their Best Picture Nominee Showcase marathon to Orlando, spread over the two weekends before the Oscars air on Feb 24th. It’s a bit of an extended affair these days since the Academy went back to the long list nomination style, which allows for...
Read more »
He’s an American Comedy Award winner (not to mention Emmy, Golden Globe and Academy Award winner, too).
Read more »
Aaaaand now it’s official: We will never, ever know who really won this year’s Oscars. That’s because we’ll never know who was even nominated. This morning’s announcement has award-watchers scratching their heads over the “wildly eclectic,” even bizarrely arbitrary nature of the nods. But for the moment at least, nobody seems to be acknowledging...
Read more »
If Lincoln ends up winning this year’s Best Picture Oscar, how early in the night will Karl Rove admit it? Maybe not all that quickly, now that electronic voting seems to be turning the Academy’s process into the same nightmare of illegitimacy that is our American elections system. The deadline for submitting Oscar nominations has...
Read more »
Apologies for the lack of images and probably the spelling and grammar. I’m away and don’t have access to my computer so everything is foreign to my fingers here and I’ve only had my phone to keep track of the stuff I read this week (also I didn’t read that much, so I’m playing catch...
Read more »
Can you hear it? That stomach gurgling sound emanating from the West Coast? Dun, dun, dun, it’s Oscar Night! Now that the Academy’s dirty little secret that it is an overwhelmingly old, white boys club (a secret so closely guarded that you only had to look at the Academy’s website that’s been up for like...
Read more »
It’s time once again for one of my favorite times of the year: 31 Days of Oscar, on Turner Classic Movies. Each year, the cable net ends their programming season with a month full of Oscar winners, from recent films to films from the 20s, Oscar winners all. From now until March 2nd, it’s...
Read more »
That One Spot Food & Drink: Hipster burger joint joins Ocoee's food renaissance By Faiyaz Kara 6/12/2013
25 notable Orlando burger joints News: If you’re a burger aficionado, here are some places you’ll want to check out By Faiyaz Kara 6/12/2013
Happytown: Orlando approves new rules & regs for food trucks News: Pilot program places new restrictions on previously unregulated food-truck activity By Erin Sullivan 6/5/2013
Mills 50/ViMi Annual Manual 2013: From soup to beer-nuts 4/12/2013
Don’t bore us, get to the chorus News: Musicians tell tales tall and short By Billy Manes, Matt Gorney, Jason Ferguson, Jessica Bryce Young and Ashley Belanger 6/19/2013
Burger time! News: Reviews of three new Orlando burger bars, plus 25 notable burgers around town By Faiyaz Kara 6/12/2013