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Did you ever see the Eddie Murphy-Steve Martin comedy Bowfinger? No? Well, it wasn’t an Oscar bait film (in fact it was pretty grossly under-rated), but at one point Murphy’s action movie star character Kit Ramsey points out that black men only get nominated for Oscars if they play slaves, and even then it’s the [...]

The annual movie media blitz session came and went with surprisingly few surprises. (Do we say that every year?) With this last little rush for our Weekly Wednesdays list-of-lists we’re officially putting the Oscars to bed for the next ten months.
Sleep well exhausted golden man, know that even though you gave it up to some [...]

The Oscars are on Sunday, and though we’re doing our best to avoid giving you a predictions listicle, we’re happy to engage in more peripheral Oscar listing. After all, the Academy Awards aren’t really about art, they’re about money: movies with statues make better bank, and actors with Oscars get more lucritive contracts. Usually. Sometimes [...]

It’s been about a week since the year’s most venerated, vehemently debated and viscerally detested movie listicle was released, and, not surprisingly, the Interweb’s been abuzz with 2009 Academy Award discussions. Personally we find the whole affair sickening and are completely underwhelmed by the slate of films the Academy has decided to fawn over this [...]

With the Early Oscars (a.k.a. The Golden Globes) confirming our suspicions of a fairly mediocre award season ahead, and with the real Oscar nominations announcements only ten days away, we here at Listicles are taking refuge in the comforts of the past.
Perpetually disappointed by the marquee nominees and winners, we’re always most pleasantly surprised by [...]