According to Awards Daily, The Writers Guild of America joined the Juno/No Country free-for-all gang bang by recognizing the films for best original and adapted screenplays respectively.
Taxi to the Darkside won in the documentary category.
On the TV front, The Wire won for best drama. This isn’t a TV blog but The Wire is the closest thing on [...]

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There Will Be Blood composer Jonny Greenwood
Let’s face it. Oscar embarrassed itself earlier this year when it disqualified Jonny Greenwood’s remarkable score for There Will Be Blood on a rules technicality. Of course, everyone else realizes that the Radiohead guitarist’s work is a cornerstone of one of the best movies of 2007.
Friend of LiC and allegedly decent fellow [...]

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Combine the fact that Ellen Page (Hard Candy, Juno) is a name on everyone’s lips these days with word that Sam Raimi (Evil Dead, A Simple Plan) is putting away the Spidey tights and returning to the sweet sweet embrace of the horror genre from which he got his start and, well, that’s news.
Page has agreed to star in the [...]

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From the BBC, by way of Dorothy Porker, via Awards Daily comes news that Joel and Ethan Coen’s No Country for Old Men has run out of awards in the US and it has moved across the Atlantic to conquer foreign territories. Its first victory: film of the year from the London Film Critics’ Circle.
Kelly Macdonald also took [...]

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“I can’t deny the fact that you like me…right now, you like me!”
Pixar’s animated hit Ratatouille scurried into UCLA’s Royce Hall Friday night and scurried back out with 9 Annies, the awards handed out by ASIFA-Hollywood honoring the year’s best in animation.
For best feature, the story of one rat’s rise from garbage heap to head chef at a [...]

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Beginning February 13th, 
The Muriels are going to be off the hook

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