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Off the air?

ABC cut out here in DC for about a minute. I knew the recession was affecting advertising, but wow…

A nod to movies that people actually like

That upbeat montage of cool stunts and effects from Bond, Batman, Indiana Jones, Iron Man etc. was a much-needed jolt of caffeine. Good line by Will Smith: Yes, these movies have actual fans. And of course, boring Button wins anyway.

HSM3

High School Musical 3 be in the same montage with Singin’ in the Rain and Chicago? Really?

An Expert's Best Picture Prediction…

…and by “expert,” I mean my brother at NYU film school. He is convinced that ‘Slumdog Millionaire” will take home best picture, although he doesn’t think it deserves to win.

'24' Going Soft in Season Seven? More Like Going Subtle

With a few strokes of the (real-life) president’s pen, Guantanamo Bay was ordered shut within a year, enhanced interrogation tactics were banished as relics of a dark past, and secret CIA prisons began dropping off the map in Eastern Europe.