Wow. Ten years. My Oscar party is older than my children and older than my marriage. But one thing that will never get old is eating nachos, hanging out with friends, and talking about movies. And then eating more nachos. We had all the standard foods this year. Coke Zero Dark Thirty, Nachos Unchained, Life […]
Category Archives: Oscars
A Review of Les Miserablés From Someone Who HAS Seen the Film
Well, I did it. I went to see Les Miserablés. You can thank the AMPAS for that. I am on a bit of an Oscar bender at the moment. When they announced the nominations ten days ago, there were 30 nominated full length features that I had not seen. Now there are 22. I know; […]
The 85th Academy Award Nominations
It appears that my moviegoing life just keeps getting worse and worse. Two years ago when the Oscar Nominations were announced, I had seen 7 out of the 10 films nominated for Best Picture. Last year I had only seen 3 out of 9, a tragic drop from 70% to 33%. But this year the […]
The Names Change But the Food Stays the Same
Last night I hosted my 9th annual Oscars party. This is basically the only time during the year that I actually host anything, so I get pretty excited about it. One of my favorite parts of hosting is trying to come up with horrible puns that will link the party food to the nominated films, […]
The 84th Annual Academy Award Nominations
It’s my favorite time of year again! Oscar season. That wonderful month in which I try to cram as much cinematic culture into my eyeballs as possible. In previous years (read: pre-children) there was not too much cramming to do, because I used to go to the movies all the time, and when the nominations […]
The 8th Annual Oscar Party
I thought that the 83rd annual Academy Awards were kind of meh, but the party was great! For the 8th year running, I hosted a get-together at my place to watch the show. For the first year since I became a parent, I had actually seen all of the best picture nominees, and it was […]
Cramming for the Oscars
The Academy Awards are in just over a week now, and I am trying to see as many of the films as possible. When last we discussed this subject, I had seen seven out of ten best picture nominees, and a few of the other movies as well. Over the past few weeks, I have […]
The Academy Award Nominations
Yesterday morning at 8:30 am, the academy award nominations were announced (5:30 am if you live in California). This is of particular interest to me because, not only do I love movies, but every year for the past seven years we have hosted an Oscars party, with foods filled with movie-named bad puns, contests, ballots, […]