Subjecting Oscar acceptance speeches to a level of scrutiny they definitely don’t deserve.
Analyzing the 2012 Oscar Acceptance Speeches
Monthly Archives: March 2012
Episode 58: The Georgina Sausage
Sheely and special guest Cognac discuss Gossip Girl, institutions, and the law.
Silent Star, Surfer, Spy: Jean Dujardin and Characters About Characters
This Sunday, Jean Dujardin won the Best Actor Oscar for the role of Georg Valentin in The Artist, playing a charismatic silent movie actor incapable of coping with the world of sound. Intellectually motivated movies about movies tend to punch…
The Biblical Terminator: Heteroglossic Discourse and Poetic Authority in “Terminator 2: Judgment Day”
How “Terminator 2″ imitates the epic language, and the problematic self-contradictions, of The Bible.
Episode 191: Life Is Getting Less Special
Subjecting “Fridge Nuking” to Scientific Peer Review
George Lucas claims Indiana Jones could survive a fridge-nuking. Dr. David Shechner tells us why that’s crap. Science!
OverWinging It: Season 2, Episodes 6-8
Episode 190: 18 Hours of Angels Singing and Craziness
Wrather, Fenzel, and Perich tackle Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance.
Open Thread for February 17, 2012
7 Serious Lessons from Will Ferrell Movies
Everything Must Go is a very serious Will Ferrell Movie. But then again, all Will Ferrell movies are very serious Will Ferrell movies.