I was pleasantly surprised to find this film wasn’t a nature documentary. It’s about Australian gangsters shooting each other in the face. Find out the verdict below… Read more »
Archive for Oscars
DVD RvReview: Animal Kingdom
Posted in REVIEWS with tags Animal Kingdom, Guy Pearce, Jacki Weaver, Joel Edgerton, Movies, Oscars on July 13, 2011 by Ross McGRvR loves… What REALLY happened at the Oscars
Posted in RvR LOVES with tags CopeandDalton, Oscars, YouTube on February 28, 2011 by Ross McD
BREAKING NEWS: the footage you were fed last night was cleverly staged to make it look like a nice calm affair in which The King’s Speech politely took everything. But what you are about to watch is the real unedited footage smuggled out by Cope and Dalton… Read more »
Blog Post Of The Week: What’s the point of the Oscars?
Posted in BLOG POST OF THE WEEK with tags Movies, Oscar, Oscars on February 24, 2011 by Ross McG
To round off our Oscar week here on Ross v Ross, let’s ask if we really should have them at all (Uh… we probably should have them – otherwise what the heck would we have filled our blog with these past few days?). Who better to answer that question than the great Fandango over at Fandango Groovers. One of the first movie blogs we started reading once we got our little shindig off the ground, it still always manages to catch our attention, no mean feat when you get distracted by pretty colours as much as we do. It’s also just celebrated its second birthday. So go over there, wish him a happy birthday and read his great post on the Oscars’ current standing. You can read it by clicking HERE or the image above. Happy birthday, Fands. Enjoy the Terrible Twos… Read more »
Top Five… Forgotten Oscar Nominations
Posted in TOP FIVES with tags Movies, Oscar, Oscars on February 24, 2011 by Ross McG
They say history only remembers the winners, so why should Oscar history be any different? Here we countdown the Oscar noms that have completely slipped our tiny, fragile, little minds. These aren’t forgettable performances or movies - far from it – just the ones that make us go, ‘Wow, he/she/it was nominated for an Oscar for that?’ Read more »
Oscar Special: Best Picture Battle
Posted in BATTLES with tags 127 Hours, Black Swan, Inception, Movies, Oscar, Oscars, The Fighter, The Kids Are All Right, The King's Speech, The Social Network, Toy Story 3, True Grit, Winter's Bone on February 22, 2011 by rossvross
We have gone a little Oscar crazy this week. With a little help from our friends. In an epic ten-way battle, Ross McD and Ross McG are joined by eight of their fellow movie bloggers to find out which Best Picture contender ought to go home with the Oscar this Sunday. All you have to do is read the arguments and vote for your favourite in our poll below. Click HERE or the rather spiffing image above to read this battle exclusively at Metro Film Fight Club. Read more »
Blog Post Of The Week: And the Oscar winners should be…
Posted in BLOG POST OF THE WEEK with tags blog, Blogs, Movies, Oscar, Oscars on February 18, 2011 by Ross McG
We’re going to cheat a little on today’s Blog Post Of The Week and give you a double helping, even if both posts come from the same blog. And what a blog it is. We Rosses thought we were the coolest movie-blogging duo in town until we happened across the CyniCritics, where the writings of Matt and Luke (presumably Mark and John spread their own movie gospel elsewhere) are a regular treat for us. Like a lot of us out there, the boys have caught Oscar fever this week and have each compiled a rundown of who will win what, but more importanly, who should win what. The great thing about both their lists is that I find myself agreeing and disagreeing with them in equal measure. Get over there and give your own opinion. To read Matt’s list click HERE and to read Luke’s list click HERE. Let the guys know what you think. Read more »
DVD RvReview: The Social Network
Posted in REVIEWS with tags Aaron Sorkin, Andrew Garfield, David Fincher, Facebook, Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Mark Zuckerberg, Movies, Oscars, The Social Network on February 15, 2011 by Ross McG
Did Ross McG ‘like’ the movie about Facebook? Are we the 72,345th website to use that crap joke? The answers to both those questions are ‘yes’. Find out how much he liked it after the jump. Read more »
Blog Post Of The Week: Diary of a Best Picture winner
Posted in BLOG POST OF THE WEEK with tags Best Picture, Movies, Oscars on February 4, 2011 by Ross McG
When we started Blog Post Of The Week recently we were initially keen to feature something from a different movie blogger each week. But that premise just got blown out of the water by our pal Univarn over at A Life In Equinox. Last month we picked his piece on how IMDb’s ‘Known For’ new section doesn’t really, er, work. But this week we couldn’t ignore his quite brilliant post, Diary Of A Best Picture Winner. On his Twitter account, Univarn said this was ‘the first post in a while I’ve written and it came out just how I wanted it to’. At first glance that might appear an arrogant comment, but it’s not. We know exactly what he means. That feeling of just writing something that you’ve just nailed. Well, Univarn, you nailed it buddy. Click HERE or the picture above to read his post. Read more »
