Episode 243: As They Tear Your Show Apart
The Overthinkers tackle the 2013 Academy Awards.
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Oscars on Overthinking It
Law & Zero Dark Thirty
In the Global War on Terror, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups. The CIA, who investigate terrorists, and Navy SEALs, who shoot them in the face. These are their stories.
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What’s the Prime Age to Win an Oscar?
Hollywood’s most glamorous night meets the magic of Google Docs.
For Your Consideration: The Silver Linings Playbook
Only one film deserves your vote this Oscar season, unless you’re a terrible person.
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Analyzing the 2012 Oscar Acceptance Speeches
Subjecting Oscar acceptance speeches to a level of scrutiny they definitely don’t deserve.
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 … Continued
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Episode 191: Life Is Getting Less Special
The Overthinkers tackle the 84th Academy Awards.
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Think Tank: Unfortunately, There’s a Little Bit of the Movies in All of Us.
We parody the Academy’s “We showed you how” ad campaign by showing Hollywood’s dark side.
Open Thread for November 11, 2011
Happy 11/11/11 day, Overthinkers! Crank it up. Real quick blitz this week, because I’m exhausted: Billy Crystal hosting the Oscars; the passing of hip hop legend Heavy D; Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar Hoover biopic and Tarsem Singh’s Clash of the … Continued
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Analyzing the 2011 Oscar Acceptance Speeches
Oscar winners thanked their wives and the Academy. God, not so much.