Crude: The Movie for best documentary. See it and you'll never buy Chevron products again.

I really enjoyed reading this. Oh, Oscars..'When a child was just a child' (me), it (I) revered them as having a sort of objective finality in the conclusion of a movie's goodness. A symbol for the most perfect recommendation. It was a child, and now as it grows older, it sees the oscars as an entertaining bit of inanity, but the best kind of inanity that there ever was - that is, the inanity which is absolutely transparent but remains celebrated and relevant. Why? Why doesn't the student see through the forest of those golden human-like trees and walk right past (in his mental avenues)? Because I lovne movies and I love talkin about movies. I'll wear the inane, transparent dress if it means that I can expose my taste, naked. If all art presupposes an expression of geist, or freedom, then might the reflective (<- right word? - "'objectively'; from the future") celebration of the best art presuppose a sort of self-aware analytical free mind. If we free ourselves through the arts (or any expression) then what are we doing when we judge the expression, when we celebrate it? Looking over our shoulder (which is the present), waving and applauding at our freedom, feeling the warmth of its radiance beaming on our waving hands and maybe wondering - as we turn our backs into another year, another decade - how long they will burn and perhaps whether even they burn at all should there not be any living creature to perceive its glory - Oh, oscars. Poor, Mr. Fox. Maybe if he could just dig a hole and sneak into Pricewaterhousecoopers and prank the names just for the heck of it - oh, I'm pleasure-writing again. Peace, Ian

I was surprised that Nicolas Cage did not get a best actor nomination for his role in Bad Lieutenant. While by no means a perfect film, I enjoyed it immensely, and thought that Cage delivered one of his best and most exuberantly eccentric performances in years. See it if you haven't!