Mike Browne’s Blog

Check out the site for ALONE IN THE DARK due to be released on January 28th. Has that HR Geiger/Alien feel to it. Constantine with Keanu Reeves looks entertainiing too.

Cynthia Rockwell seems quite disturbed by what she (and others) saw in the recent animated film The Polar Express.

Here are some pictures of Bridgewater after the recent snow storms there as sent by Big Al Mac. The one at the bottom is the high school I went to. We used to pray for snow days but, even with the amount of snow the province gets we rarely were so lucky. I’m sure 110cms shut it down for at least a day.

OSCAR.com – 77th Annual Academy Awards – Nominees: Nominee List. I’ve made it my mission to watch as many Oscar nominated films and performances as possible prior to the night of the awards. I love this time of year, but the more I learn the less enchanted I am with the politics around the Oscars.

Take the Best Actor category for example: We watched Ray last night and I must say Jamie Foxx was great as the late great Ray Charles in that film. It was right to nominate him for a Best Actor Oscar for that one. But as Jackson pointed out this morning Foxx is also nominated in the best supporting category for his role in Collateral. Jackson, who is probably exactly right also observed that Foxx will probably receive his Oscar for Collateral to make way for Clint Eastwood’s old-man-pity-Oscar for Million Dollar Baby. Or perhaps it will be Johnny Depp’s turn for his Role in Finding Neverland with a sorry-we-passed-you-over-last-year-Oscar. Leonardo DiCaprio has an outside chance with his portrayal of Howard Hughes in The Aviator due to Hughes’s Hollywood legend factor and the fact he was nuttier than squirrel turds (the we-feel-sorry-for-the-victim-of-insanity vote – see A Beautiful Mind for clarification). Don Cheadle is a dark horse with his nomination for his poignant potrayal of “Paul Rusesabagina, a resourceful hotel manager who saves over a thousand people during the Rwandan massacre at great risk to his own life” in Hotel Rwanda. Cheadle is a fabulous actor. He won’t win this year, but I’m sure this isn’t the last we’ll see of him.

It’ll be a tight race but I’m with Jackson. Eastwood will get the just-before-you-croak-Oscar.

Ah, politcis.

The Razzies will probably be more fun.

Defamer At Sundance: Napoleon Dynamite Superstar
I loved the movie. Go Napolean go! Thanks to Carol for the link.

Check out communication skills – zefrank. From a designer’s perspective I truly appreciate this. I think I’ve seen this before, but I don’t think I’ve posted it. Thanks to Gracie the Cat Lady for the link.

Hit me up with those rockin’ Ron Burgandy one-liners!

Crispin Hellion Glover’s Feature Film What Is It?… Wow, he really is out there. I love it. My guess it’s interesting at least.

Check out dogblog and goggledog. I love the pooches…