In Memoriam.....Jane Russell.

The voluptuous Jane Russell, the brunette in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes opposite Marilyn Monroe and the woman that multi-billionaire Howard Hughes invented a bra for, passed away today. She may have been known for her two attributes, but this was a grand lady who worked hard in the field of adoption after realizing she cannot have any children. She was also a devout Christian, something that's incredibly hard in the business. She and Marilyn had actually a bit in common. Each were only used for their looks in their film, but no one knew of their true acting abilities and unfortunately, no one seemed to care. Just as long as they looked good in front of the camera, they needn't do anything witty or smart. Making movies with Howard Hughes just destroyed her career. But she persevered. Unfortunately, Marilyn wasn't as strong.

God called her home, and off she went happily. Goodbye, dear Jane.

Oscar Hosts Anne Hathaway and James Franco

Eh. So far it's so good, but it's like Anne Hathaway's carrying James.

Tom Hanks comes out to the score of Gone With the Wind to present best art direction.....and the winner is Alice in Wonderland!

Cinematography.....and the winner is Inception!! At least it won something!!!

Kirk Douglas!!!!!! Presenting the best supporting actress!!!! I really REALLY hope Helena wins. And the winner is......Melissa Leo!!!!!!!!!!! I so wanted Helena to win!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Th
Animated Short.....The Lost Thing. Eh.

Animated feature film..................Toy Story 3!!!!!!!


Adapted Screenplay.............The Social Network.



Original Screenplay................The King's Speech!!!!!!!!!

Anne Hathaway is doing a good job hosting!!! And you know what, I think James Franco's opening up more now!! Yay for our hosts!!

The winner of the Best Foreign film has sweat stains underneath her dress. How mortifyingly embarrasing!!!!!!!!! I don't even know which movie that won, I just can't help staring at her pit stains!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Best Supporting Actor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bale!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Best Original Score...........The Social Network. Trent Reznor can add this little statue to his grammy!!!

Sound mixing......I liked the presenter better than the actual award. Matthew McCoonaughey's just yummy......Inception!!!!

Sound editing........Inception!!!!!!!!!

Best Makeup..........The Wolfman. I'd have to disagree. It was too much CGI. Maybe best visual effect, sure.

Best Costume.........Alice in Wonderland. Of course, of course.

Best Original Song............Toy Story.

Best Short Documentary..........Strangers No More. Jake Gylenhall just made a very touching remark about how we need to watch short movies.

Best Live Action Short Film............God of Love.

Best Documentary................Inside Job.

Visual Effects.................Inception. I'm so glad that Inception's cleaning out on the technical side of it, because it was just snubbed by the artist side.

Film editing.........The Social Network. Eh.....man.

BEST DIRECTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE KING'S SPEECH!!!!!!!!! I CALLED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!! I CALLED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sometimes Franco's too stiff....

BEST ACTRESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NATALIE PORTMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CALLED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BEST ACTOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! COLIN FIRTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CALLED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BEST FILM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE KING'S SPEECH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I CALLED IT!!!!!!!!!!! I CALLED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I CALLED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And PS 22 from Staten Island, and then the Academy Awards are over! Until next year, ladies and gentlemen, as we wrap up this film season, and say hello to the new season of film. I await the next Oscars with abated breath.

Good night all!!!

The Academy Awards Tonight!!!

Live blogging of the Academy Awards are on tonight, February 27th!!

Mila Kunis is wearing Elie Saab. She looks fantastic in an illusion chiffon lace lavender gown....wow.

Hailee Steinfeld looks her age, and in a good way, wearing a cute ballerina-like pink Marchesa gown. She's not over dressed and she looks like she's enjoying herself.

Jesse Eisenberg is being interviewed by a very dashing Robin Roberts.

Anne Hathaway's vintage Valentino....absolutely ravishing. I'm going to comment on all her costume changes.

Amy Adam's dress, L'Wrenn Scott, is just phenomenal for the caliber of the Awards, but she went a little overboard on the Cartier jade necklace.

Jennifer Hudson is wearing a gorgeous red-orange Versace dress, and wearing it beautifully since she lost her weight. She looks absolutely elegant.

Michelle Williams is wearing a white beaded Chanel Haute Couture gown with Jimmy Choo's pumps....a girl's absolute dream.

Florence Welch looks like a doily straight out of the 1800's.

Mandy Moore looks AMAZING in her Monique Lhuillier gown. But of course, I'm biased when when it comes to this designer. She's an absolute favorite. I'm not gonna lie, though. She may be my favorite designer, this dress is reminiscent of Cameron Diaz's Oscar de la Renta's champagne tulle and metallic embroidery gown.

CATE BLANCHETT!!!!!! A fantastic lilac gown, but I don't like the yellow accents on it. It's mustard yellow. I hate mustard yellow. I hate all kinds of yellow. But it is Givenchy.

I cannot stand STAND Scarlett Johansson. And she's wearing a so-so purple-black laced illusion Dolce and Gabbana gown. Justice is served after divorcing yummy Ryan Reynolds.

Marisa Tomei's wearing a 1950's--vintage, people--Charles James dress. A midnight bouffant dress, looks incredible!!!

Reese Witherspoon’s wearing Armani Prive, and she looks absolutely classic. Her hairstyle’s very June Carter Cash.

Nicole Kidman's wearing Dior....eh. Not her best dress. And she's wearing orange shoes. Why would anyone wear orange shoes? I don't care if the style's currently not to match, but I'm very monochromatic. Can't help it.

Halle Berry is wearing a ravishing nude and crystal encrusted Marchesa corsetted Organza and Silk tulle gown.

I hate dresses like Hillary Swank's Gucci dress. She looks like she's dragging a muppet around. Call Jim Henson!!!

Penelope Cruz looks like she's wearing a costume dress other than a couture gown. It's not her, and it's definitely not flattering.

Reese Witherspoon’s wearing Armani Privee, and she looks absolutely classic. Her hairstyle’s very June Carter Cash.

Mama Natalie Portman looks like an awesome mommy-to-be in a shocking violet Rodarte dress, except her earring looks like a window curtain embellishment.

Sandra Bullock’s not awarded, but she looks FANTASTIC in Vera Wang!!!! DESLUMBRANTE!!!!
Gwyneth Paltrow looks REVOLUTIONARY in Calvin Klein. She looks futuristic, and her jewelery looks GREAT.

Celine Dion looks clean and pristine after delivering her twins in Armani Prive.

Melissa Leo looks shimmery in Marc Bouwer. I like it.....it's growing on me. I wasn't a fan of it at first.

The Queen herself, Helen Mirren looks stunning in Vivienne Westwood.

Camila Alves is wearing Kaufman Franco with STUART WEITZMAN SHOES, shoes that I have a pair of, and my mom has a pair of!!!!!!!!!!! Her yummy hubby wears Dolce from head to toe, since he is the face of the brand.

THE HANGOVER 2 OFFICIAL TEASER TRAILER!!!!!!!!!

Sheer brilliance needs no words to muddle up its awesomeness.

Terrence Malick Untitled Project Better be Titled Soon. A Picture Really is Worth a Thousand Words....

Terrence Malick, the man that brought us The Thin Red Line and The New World brings us a film that is soon--hopefully--to be titled. With Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams will again star in a love story, and below is the first image to be provided from the movie. I've always been a fan of Rachel because though I was one of the very few who didn't go ga-ga over The Notebook, I appreciated the actors' fine work. Rachel was fantastic in that movie, and in other movies, like Mean Girls, The Time Traveler's Wife, The Family Stone and her most recent, Morning Glory. Now Ben....irreverent. I like him. Of course, I didn't like him in Gigli, but that's understandable. I did like him in Jersey Girl, and I don't care what anyone else says. Anyway, enjoy the picture. I know I have!

Matthew McConaughey Enjoys Being a Lawyer, as Does Daniel Radcliffe. Can a Man-made Man Be a Real Man? And a Sneak Peek Image of Holmes and Watson.

I'm going to say right off the bat that like a billion women on the face of this great huge Earth, I am a fan of the scrumptious Matthew McConaughey. BIG fan. But what I've noticed was a pattern which he picks his movies. He likes to portray lawyers of impossible cases. He likes to defend the weak and downtrodden. He was Roger Sherman Baldwin in Amistad, Jake Brigance in A Time To Kill (Little Tonya always gets to me. "I'm sorry I dropped the groceries, daddy" and I bawl every time), and now Mickey Haller in the upcoming The Lincoln Lawyer, as a man who operates his business out of his Lincoln town car and defends basically the lowlives like drug dealers, pimps, drunk drivers and such. He gets hired to defend another lowlife who attacked a woman he met at a bar (Ryan Philippe, whom I'll never believe that he did it because of his little baby face that'll never go away), except this lowlife is rich, and of course Haller is hearts aflutter for the fees he's going to receive. Except something happens which leads him to question his morals and restructure his life. What that is, I won't reveal. You'll just have to watch his delectable yumminess on March 18th, when the movie comes out.





Speaking of Lawyers, Dan Radcliffe, the Chosen Boy Who Lived is going to be starring in a new movie called The Woman in Black, a story about ghosts who are set on revenge. Why? Don't know. But I do know I want to see Dan and judge his acting skills beyond the 11 years he's been with HP. We're over it. Move on to bigger and better things, much like Rupert Grint has been doing with Driving Lessons, CherryBomb, and Wild Target. All we've seen Emma Watson is in Ballet Shoes, BBC TV movie which she was actually pretty good in. She's using her good looks to be the face of campaign and to go to school at Brown University. Pretty fancy schmancy.


My Floridian counterpart will be thrilled to know that Danny Boyle is coming out with a new theatrical production, his telling of the Mary Shelley classic, Frankenstein. Too bad he won't be able to attend it all the way in London, but maybe he'll enjoy this minute trailer.

I very much enjoy first looks. However, this is the second image made available for the second Sherlock Holmes entitled, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. Enjoy!

Gnomeo, Gnomeo. Wherefore art thou, Gnomeo?

I don't even know where to start. This movie was a tribute to Shakespeare and Elton John. Two VERY unlikely people working together to make a movie that was actually quite adorable. Directed by Kellly Asbury, it takes place in a sleepy little town in England, most likely Stratford-upon-Avon, since during the movie a large statue of Shakespeare himself, voiced by the irreverent Patrick Stewart comes out and compares Gnomeo's tale to one he previously wrote a while back. The voices of Gnomeo and Juliet are left to the ever-incredibly talented and luscious Scot James McAvoy (I'm a big fan of the Scotsmen actors, believe me. He, Sean Connery, Kevin McKidd, Craig Ferguson, Gerard Butler....hm...) and the sumptuously fabulous Emily Blunt (I'm still addicted to The Young Victoria), with a motley crue of supporting cast members, like Ozzy Osbourne (he was the little fawn!! A lucid fawn!!!) Ashley Jensen (McAvoy wasn't the only Scotsperson!!) as Nanette, the equivalent of Juliet's Nurse in the original people'd version of the play. Dolly Parton as a, you guessed it, a busty, overly makeupped garden gnome (but was still ridiculously adorable, as the real Dolly will always be to me), Sir Michael Caine and Dame Maggie Smith as Lord Redbrick and and Lady Blueberry and Jason Statham as the main antagonist, Tybalt.



Throughout the entire movie, Elton John's songs were played as a kind of musical. Think Mamma Mia! here, where the play was based on the songs that were made famous 30-somewhat years ago, not the play made the songs famous. It was played at the right time, during the right moment, such as "Our Song" played during the meet between the love struck garden gnomes.

Good fun, something everyone will enjoy, entertaining and a completely modernized twist to one of history's most famous plays. However, definitely something weird. Not gonna lie. But cute. Weird but cute. What I like is the fact that little children pre-Romeo and Juliet are going to be thinking, "Wow, such originality in a story!" Frankly, that's what I'm thinking too.

The BAFTA Awards Rock. End of Story.

I always have respected British film critiques. I don't know why I think it's superior to American critiques, but I just feel like since they speak with an accent, their opinion carries more weight. And I was right. For they honored Helena Bonham Carter. They're the new Oscars.


Best Film
WINNER
The King's Speech

Other Nominees:
Black Swan
Inception
The Social Network
True Grit

Alexander Korda Award for Outstanding British Film of the Year
WINNER
The King's Speech

Other Nominees:
127 Hours
Another Year
Four Lions
Made in Dagenham

Best Actor
WINNER
Colin Firth for The King's Speech

Other Nominees:
Javier Bardem for Biutiful
Jeff Bridges for True Grit
Jesse Eisenberg for The Social Network
James Franco for 127 Hours

Best Actress
WINNER
Natalie Portman for Black Swan

Other Nominees:
Annette Bening for The Kids Are All Right
Julianne Moore for The Kids Are All Right
Noomi Rapace for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hailee Steinfeld for True Grit

Best Supporting Actor
WINNER
Geoffrey Rush for The King's Speech

Other Nominees:
Christian Bale for The Fighter
Andrew Garfield for The Social Network
Pete Postlethwaite for The Town
Mark Ruffalo for The Kids Are All Right

Best Supporting Actress
WINNER
Helena Bonham Carter for The King's Speech----ABOUT TIME SHE GETS RECOGNIZED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Other Nominees:
Amy Adams for The Fighter
Barbara Hershey for Black Swan
Lesley Manville for Another Year
Miranda Richardson for Made in Dagenham

David Lean Award for Achievement in Direction
WINNER
David Fincher for The Social Network

Other Nominees:
Darren Aronofsky for Black Swan
Danny Boyle for 127 Hours
Tom Hooper for The King's Speech
Christopher Nolan for Inception

Best Screenplay (Original)
WINNER
The King's Speech: David Seidler

Other Nominees:
Black Swan: Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz, John J. McLaughlin
The Fighter: Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson
Inception: Christopher Nolan
The Kids Are All Right: Lisa Cholodenko, Stuart Blumberg

Best Screenplay (Adapted)
WINNER
The Social Network: Aaron Sorkin

Other Nominees:
127 Hours: Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Rasmus Heisterberg, Nikolaj Arcel
Toy Story 3: Michael Arndt
True Grit: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Best Cinematography
WINNER
True Grit: Roger Deakins

Other Nominees:
127 Hours: Anthony Dod Mantle, Enrique Chediak
Black Swan: Matthew Libatique
Inception: Wally Pfister
The King's Speech: Danny Cohen

Best Editing
WINNER
The Social Network: Angus Wall, Kirk Baxter

Other Nominees:
127 Hours: Jon Harris
Black Swan: Andrew Weisblum
Inception: Lee Smith
The King's Speech: Tariq Anwar

Best Production Design
WINNER
Inception: Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias, Douglas A. Mowat

Other Nominees:
Alice in Wonderland: Robert Stromberg, Karen O'Hara
Black Swan: Thérèse DePrez, Tora Peterson
The King's Speech: Eve Stewart, Judy Farr
True Grit: Jess Gonchor, Nancy Haigh

Best Costume Design
WINNER
Alice in Wonderland: Colleen Atwood

Other Nominees:
Black Swan: Amy Westcott
The King's Speech: Jenny Beavan
Made in Dagenham: Louise Stjernsward
True Grit: Mary Zophres

Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music
WINNER
The King's Speech: Alexandre Desplat

Other Nominees:
127 Hours: A.R. Rahman
Alice in Wonderland: Danny Elfman
How to Train Your Dragon: John Powell
Inception: Hans Zimmer

Best Make Up/Hair
WINNER
Alice in Wonderland

Other Nominees:
Black Swan
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
The King's Speech
Made in Dagenham

Best Sound
WINNER
Inception

Other Nominees:
127 Hours
Black Swan
The King's Speech
True Grit

Best Achievement in Special Visual Effects
WINNER
Inception

Other Nominees:
Alice in Wonderland
Black Swan
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Toy Story 3

Best Film not in the English Language
WINNER
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Other Nominees:
Biutiful
I Am Love
Of Gods and Men
The Secret in Their Eyes

Best Animated Feature Film
WINNER
Toy Story 3

Other Nominees:
Despicable Me
How to Train Your Dragon

Orange Rising Star Award
WINNER
Tom Hardy

Other Nominees:
Gemma Arterton
Andrew Garfield
Aaron Johnson
Emma Stone

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
WINNER
Four Lions: Christopher Morris(Director/Writer)

Other Nominees:
The Arbor: Clio Barnard, Tracy O'Riordan(Director, Producer)
Exit Through the Gift Shop: Banksy, Jaimie D'Cruz(Director, Producer)
Monsters: Gareth Edwards(Director/Writer)
Skeletons: Nick Whitfield(Director/Writer)

Best Short Animation
WINNER
The Eagleman Stag

Other Nominees:
Matter Fisher

Best Short Film
WINNER
Until the River Runs Red

Other Nominees:
Connect
Lin
Rite
Turning

And Here It Is.....

Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you the teaser trailer for the new X-Men movie. Now the X-Men have ALWAYS been my favorite superheroes, ever since I was a little girl, and my favorite plotline is the love triangle between Jean/Scott/Logan. I suppose I was destined for unrequited love. Anyway, here it is, McHottie--I certainly mean, James McAvoy as Dr. Xavier and Michael Fassbender as Magneto, the most famous friendly rivals we'll ever know. If anything, this trailer promises. Oh, how it promises.

Really--GOD BLESS AMERICA, What Was Shia Drinking?, and Didn't X-tina Even Practice???

Um, Yeah. I'm happy about the Packers winning and everything. Believe me, Iv'e been a fan of Green Bay ever since I was nine and found out what football was. We're all excited about that. But what we're really interested is the fact that powerhouse vocalist Christina Aguilera doesn't even know the lyrics to her own country's national anthem. It's a hard song to sing, of course. One of the hardest because of its musical composition (I know nothing of music, this is from several musician sources and one Maestro, so I'm not taking credit). But couldn't she at least have practiced before hand with someone who knew the lyrics? Because whoever told her that those were it, were lying to her either accidentaly or on purpose just to watch her fail. My co-worker tells me she's gotten fat, her voice has gotten worse and she's now public enemy number one for butchering the Star Spangled Banner on live national television at the Superbowl. No one will ever forget that--it's gotten up there with Nipplegate 7 years ago. Do I agree with that assessment? Parts of it. Nipplegate coined the term "wardrobe malfunction". Is she that washed up? She's only thirty, but she needs to start taking better care of herself ASAP.

In OTHER news, Shia LeBeouf is getting in barfights. You would think that with his hand being crushed a few years ago from a car crash he'd have the consideration to not go punching people out. But no, someone called him not a nice word, and immediately fists fly. So Shia didn't want to give out his autograph or take a picture. But from what I hear, he was a real jerk about it--which caused the person asking for the autograph to call him the not-nice word, and bam. Fist in mouth. But I don't think it even got that far--a bouncer put him in a headlock and kept him there until conveniently a policeman was driving around. He was handcuffed and released a little while later. He's actually got to be careful drinking and going out in public. He's had a history of run-ins with the police. He was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving in 2008 and was charged with misdemeanor criminal trespassing after being found intoxicated in a drug store in Chicago in the same year. Take it easy, Shia. Promises is not in your future.

AND in last news, during the Superbowl commercials, one really awesome tv spot was shown for Captain America, the First Avenger. IT LOOKS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!! And the fact that Tommy Lee Jones is in it, just the cherry on the most kick-ass sundae ever. So I tell you to watch it, folks and see what it is we're all so anxious for July 22nd. That or an extended trailer.