83rd Academy Award (Oscar)

Best Motion Picture of the Year
127 Hours
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The King's Speech [WINNER]
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter's Bone


Best Achievement in Directing
Darren Aronofsky - Black Swan
Ethan & Joel Coen - True Grit
David Fincher - The Social Network
Tom Hooper - The King's Speech [WINNER]
David O. Russell - The Fighter


Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Javier Bardem - Biutiful
Jeff Bridges - True Grit
Jesse Eisenberg - The Social Network
Colin Firth - The King's Speech [WINNER]
James Franco - 127 Hours


Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Annette Bening - The Kids Are All Right
Nicole Kidman - Rabbit Hole
Jennifer Lawrence - Winter's Bone
Natalie Portman - Black Swan [WINNER]
Michelle Williams - Blue Valentine


Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Christian Bale - The Fighter [WINNER]
John Hawkes - Winter's Bone
Jeremy Renner - The Town
Mark Ruffalo - The Kids Are All Right
Geoffrey Rush - The King's Speech


Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Amy Adams - The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter - The King's Speech
Hailee Steinfeld - True Grit
Melissa Leo - The Fighter [WINNER]
Jacki Weaver - Animal Kingdom


Best Animated Feature Film
How to Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist
Toy Story 3 [WINNER


Best Animated Short
Day & Night
The Gruffalo
Let's Pollute
The Lost Thing [WINNER]
Madagascar, a Journey Diary


Best Original Screenplay
Another Year
The King's Speech [WINNER]
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right


Best Adapted Screenplay
127 Hours
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter's Bone
The Social Network [WINNER]


Best Art Direction
Alice in Wonderland [WINNER]
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I
Inception
The King's Speech
True Grit


Best Cinematography
Black Swan
The Social Network
Inception [WINNER]
The King's Speech
True Grit


Best Costume Design
Alice in Wonderland [WINNER]
I Am Love
The King's Speech
The Tempest
True Grit


Best Documentary Feature
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Inside Job [WINNER]
Restrepo
Gasland
Waste Land


Best Documentary Short
Killing in the Name
Poster Girl
Strangers No More [WINNER]
Sun Come Up
The Warriors of Qiugang


Best Editing
Black Swan
The Fighter
The King's Speech
127 Hours
The Social Network [WINNER]


Best Foreign Language Film
Biutiful
Dogtooth
In a Better World [WINNER]
Incendies
Outside the Law


Best Live Action Short
The Confession
The Crush
God of Love [WINNER]
Na Wewe
Wish 143


Best Makeup
Barney's Vision
The Way Back
The Wolfman [WINNER]


Best Original Score
127 Hours
The Social Network [WINNER]
How to Train Your Dragon
Inception
The King's Speech


Best Original Song
"Coming Home" from Country Strong
"I See The Light" from Tangled
"If I Rise" from 127 Hours
"We Belong Together" from Toy Story 3 [WINNER]


Best Sound Editing
Inception [WINNER]
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Unstoppable
TRON: Leagcy


Best Sound Mixing
Inception [WINNER]
The King's Speech
Salt
The Social Network
True Grit


Best Visual Effects
Alice in Wonderland
Iron Man 2
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I
Inception [WINNER]
Hereafter

31st Annual RAZZIE Awards

Worst Picture
The Bounty Hunter
The Last Airbender [WINNER]
Sex and the City 2
Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Vampires Suck


Worst Director
Jason Freiberg & Aaron Seltzer - Vampires Suck
Michael Patrick King - Sex and the City 2
M. Night Shyamalan - The Last Airbender [WINNER]
David Slade - Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Sylvester Stallone - The Expendables


Worst Actor
Jack Black - Gulliver's Travel
Gerard Butler - The Bounty Hunter
Ashton Kutcher - Killers / Valentine's Day [WINNER]
Robert Pattinson - Twilight Saga: Eclipse / Remember Me
Taylor Lautner - Twilight Saga: Eclipse / Valentine's Day


Worst Actress
Jennifer Anniston - The Bounty Hunter
Miley Cyrus - The Last Song
Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis - Sex and the City 2 [WINNER]
Megan Fox - Jonah Hex
Kristen Stewart - Twilight Saga: Eclipse


Worst Supporting Actor
Billy Ray Cyrus - The Spy Next Door
George Lopez - Marmaduke / The Spy Next Door / Valentine's Day
Dev Patel - The Last Airbender
Jackson Rathbone - Twilight Saga: Eclipse / The Last Airbender [WINNER]
Rob Schneider - Grown Ups


Worst Supporting Actress
Jessica Alba - The Killer Inside Me / Machete / Valentine's Day / Little Fockers [WINNER]
Cher - Burlesque
Liza Minelli - Sex and the City 2
Nicola Peltz - The Last Airbender
Barbara Streisand - Little Fockers


Worst Eye-Gouging Mis-Use of 3D
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
Clash of the Titans
The Last Airbender [WINNER]
Nutcracker in 3D
Saw 3D


Worst Screen Couple/Worst Screen Ensemble
The Bounty Hunter
Jonah Hex
The Last Airbender
Sex and the City 2 [WINNER]
Twilight Saga: Eclipse


Worst Screenplay
The Last Airbender [WINNER]
Little Fockers
Sex and the City 2
Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Vampires Suck


Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel
Clash of the Titans
The Last Airbender
Sex and the City 2 [WINNER]
Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Vampires Suck

68th Annual Golden Globe Awards

Cecil B. DeMille Award - Robert De Niro


Best Motion Picture - Drama
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The King's Speech
The Social Network (WINNER)


Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical
Alice in Wonderland
Burlesque
Red
The Kids Are All Right (WINNER)
The Tourist


Best Director
Darren Aronofsky - Black Swan
David Fincher - The Social Network (WINNER)
Tom Hooper - The King's Speech
Christopher Nolan - Inception
David O' Russell - The Fighter


Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Jesse Eisenberg - The Social Network
Colin Firth - The King's Speech (WINNER)
James Franco - 127 Hours
Ryan Gosling - Blue Valentine
Mark Walhberg - The Fighter


Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
Michelle Williams - Blue Valentine
Nicole Kidman - Rabbit Hole
Natalie Portman - Black Swan (WINNER)
Halle Berry - Frankie and Alice
Jennifer Lawrence - Winter's Bone


Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical
Johnny Depp - The Tourist
Paul Giamatti - Barney's Vision (WINNER)
Kevin Spacey - Casino Jack
Jake Gyllenhaal - Love & Other Drugs
Johnny Depp - Alice in Wonderland


Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical
Angelina Jolie - The Tourist
Anne Hathaway - Love & Other Drugs
Annette Bening - The Kids Are All Right (WINNER)
Julianne Moore - The Kids Are All Right
Emma Stone - Easy A


Best Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
Christian Bale - The Fighter (WINNER)
Michael Douglas - Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Andrew Garfield - The Social Network
Jeremy Renner - The Town
Geoffrey Rush - The King's Speech


Best Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Amy Adams - The Fighter
Melissa Leo - The Fighter (WINNER)
Jacki Weaver - Animal Kingdom
Mila Kunis - Black Swan
Helena Bonham Carter - The King's Speech


Best Animated Film
Despicable Me
How to Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist
Tangled
Toy Story 3 (WINNER)


Best Original Song - Motion Picture
"Bound to You" from Burlesque
"You Haven't Seen The Last of Me" from Burlesque (WINNER)
"Coming Home" from Country Strong
"There's A Place for Us" from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
"I See The Light" from Tangled


Best Foreign Language Film
Biutiful
In A Better World (WINNER)
I Am Love
The Concert
The Edge


Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
The Social Network (WINNER)
Inception
127 Hours
The Kids Are All Right
The King's Speech


Best Original Score - Motion Picture
Inception
The King's Speech
The Social Network (WINNER)
Alice in Wonderland
127 Hours





Best Television Series - Drama
Broadwalk Empire (WINNER)
Dexter
The Good Wife
Mad Men
The Walking Dead


Best Television Series - Comedy or Musical
30 Rock
Nurse Jackie
Modern Family
Glee (WINNER)
The Big C
The Big Bang Theory


Best Actress in a TV Series - Drama
Julianna Margulies - The Good Wife
Elisabeth Moss - Mad Men
Piper Perabo - Covert Affairs
Katey Segal - Sons of Anarchy (WINNER)
Kyra Sedgwick - The Closer


Best Actress in a TV Series - Comedy or Musical
Toni Colette - United States of Tara
Edie Falco - Nurse Jackie
Tina Fey - 30 Rock
Laura Linney - The Big C (WINNER)
Lea Michelle - Glee


Best Actor in a TV Series - Drama
Steve Buscemi - Broadwalk Empire (WINNER)
Bryan Cranston - Breaking Bad
Michael C. Hall - Dexter
Jon Hamm - Mad Men
Hugh Laurie - House


Best Actor in a TV Series - Comedy or Musical
Alec Baldwin - 30 Rock
Steve Carrell - The Office
Thomas Jane - Hung
Matthew Morrison - Glee
Jim Parsons - The Big Bang Theory (WINNER)


Best TV Mini Series/Movie
The Pillars of the Earth
The Pacific
Temple Grandin
Carlos (WINNER)
You Don't Know Jack


Best Actress in a TV Mini Series/Movie
Haylet Atwell - The Pillars of the Earth
Claire Danes - Temple Grandin (WINNER)
Judi Dench - Return to Cranford
Ramola Garai - Emma
Jennifer Love Hewitt - The Client List


Best Actor in a TV Mini Series/Movie
Al Pacino - You Don't Know Jack (WINNER)
Idris Elba - Luther
Ian McShane - The Pillars of the Earth
Dennis Quaid - The Special Relationship
Edgar Ramirez - Carlos


Best Supporting Actress in a TV Mini Series/Movie
Hope Davies - The Special Relationship
Jane Lynch - Glee (WINNER)
Kelly MacDonald - Broadwalk Empire
Julia Stiles - Dexter
Sofia Vergara - Modern Family


Best Supporting Actor in a TV Mini Series/Movie
Scott Caan - Hawaii Five-O
Chris Colfer - Glee (WINNER)
Chris Noth - The Good Wife
Eric Stonestreet - The Good Wife
David Strathairn - Temple Grandin

Movies in 2010

The Dark Knight earned to a billion in 2008, and who cannot forget about 2009 with everyone talking about Avatar, from the great 3D visuals to the great vision by James Cameron to the amazing world of Pandora (seriously, I still do not understand the Avatar 'fever'). However, the year of 2010 is a whole new different playground for Hollywood movies, superstars do not really have any more starpower, Tom Cruise and Angelina Jolie. Much-hyped movies do not necessarily generate as much in the box-office. But I do know that one thing has have not change, is that people still do want to watch Robert Pattinson, Bella-Bella and the shirtless Jacob. Here are the ten (10) movies that I saw and are the best movies of 2010 (The movies do not go accordingly to order or alphabetical order):


1. Inception
Whoever who has watched Inception would asked over and over again the same question, "What is the ending of the story?" Everything about this movie is just flawless, from the talented and astounding casts, to the wonderful yet original script by Christopher Nolan, to a mesmerizing and excellent score by Hans Zimmer, to the that wonderful zero-gravity fight scene involving Joseph Gordon-Levitt (anyway who cannot forget about that scene). This film is labelled as Hollywood blockbuster yet with an entertaining and original story. This movie is really highly contagious, resillient.


2. The Social Network
Comparing with The Social Network and Inception, I still prefer The Social Network due to its' dialogue throughout the movie, to me it felt like it was natural rather than acting. The five minutes opening of the movie already is able to draw audiences' attention towards Mark and Elica's conversation. Jerk, traitor, smart, geek, emotionless, you may describe anything about Jesse Eisenberg's potrayal of Mark Zuckerberg, but he manages to deliver the lines with humour, sarcasm, facts while being truthful and witty. Definitely my pick for Best Actor for Jesse Eisenberg.


3. Toy Story 3
Best Animation of 2010, without a doubt. Pixar really has all the magical touch to this movie by combining happiness, despair, disappointment, neglectance and sadness to an animation. Woody, Buzz and the rest of the toys are back for the third and final time, and many has wonder whether Pixar are plain silly as it is a difficult task to upstage the two previous Toy Story films, but it did not disappoint any of us. The opening scene of Cowboy Woody chasing after One-Eye Bart and Dr. Evil Pork Chop, to being tortured by young kids in Sunnyside, to the Spanish Buzz, to the final touching scene where men dare to admit that they cried at the end of the movie ( I hereby admit that I cried twice after watching it twice). Brilliant and fantastic.

(Will continue soon)

The A-Team

The A-Team based on the same name as the series back in the series. Featuring four veteran soldiers in a team known as Alpha Team a.k.a A-Team, the team consists of Colonel John 'Hannibal' Smith (Liam Neeson), B.A. Baracus (Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson), Lt. Templeton 'Faceman' Peck (Bradley Cooper), and James Murdock (Sharlto Copley). After 8 years passed and 80 missions, the A-Team are again to another action by getting back US Dollar plates, something like that. However, they were framed and they have to go out to reclaim their innonence and clean their names.

I did not watch the original A-Team series, so to me I will not to say that this movie is better or worse than the original series. For me, this movie is actually not bad for an action movie, with of course an unpredictable plot. You know 'bang! bang! bang', got frame, go out clear name, claim innonence, known as a hero or somewhat. That is A-Team with a lot of bang, action and PLAN. The four main casts do play their A-game in this movie along with two great supporting casts, Patrick Wilson and Jessica Biel.

However, the problem with this movie is that some of the actions in this movie is just over-the-top at times especially almost at the end of the movie. Just imagine about five rows and estimated eight foot tall of cargos coming down at you, I guess you be fall flat like a pancake, but the man, B.A. Baracus is able to get out rather than falling flat. Trust me, even Jason Bourne or James Bond will not even get out from that.

But, as an overall, A-Team is one of the best action movies for 2010 with plentiful of action and loud bangs for action flick fans. A-Team has cinematography like the Bourne Ultimatium, action some sort like Taken (which also stars Liam Neeson) and an A-team some sort like the four casts in Zombieland.

My Review: 7.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 52%

Angels & Demons (2009)

Two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks once again reprised his role as Robert Langdon in Angels & Demons. The biggest difference between this Angels & Demons and the New York Times best-selling book Angels & Demons is that the book is the prequel to Da Vinci Code whereas the movie is the sequel to The Da Vinci Code. Tom Hanks also once again reunited with Oscar-winning director Ron Howard.


One of the complaints of this movie is that once again the movie is just not as the same as the book itself. Therefore, if you like the book just like I do, try to avoid this movie, as it will greatly disapppoint you. Besides, this movie is just too fast or too rushy. It just runs from one scene then to another then to another without any full-stop. Another thing is that the way Robert Langdon solve those riddles or clues left by the Illuminati is even quicker than Batman or even Sherlock Holmes. This movie, Langdon is portrayed like a super human which did not make it believable for us.


Well, the supporting casts did not disappoint in terms of acting despite not giving enough understanding towards each of the characters. As I am a fan of Hans Zimmer, the score for this movie is just suitable for the fast-paced Angels & Demons. As usual, Hans do not disappoint in terms of music as he is one of the geniuses in music.


Overall, Angels & Demons is like a machine gun, the plot is just too speedy and audiences who cannot catch with the speedy plot would have to watch another time to understand this movie. Fans of action or adventure movie would be disappointed with this movie whereas fans of Angels & Demons or Dan Brown would be largely and highly disappointed with this movie.


My Review: 1.5/5
Rotten Tomatoes: 36%

Old Dogs (2009)

Thank GOD I skipped this movie last year without wasting my RM9 watching this crap. Directed by Walt Becker who also directed Wild Hogs (2007) and reuniting with Wild Hogs star John Travolta, with their second collaboration, brings one of the most "EPIC" movie of 2009 (how sarcastic am I) This time around John Travolta teams up with the Genie himself, Robin Williams, Kelly Preston (John's wife) and Seth Green along with John's daughter Ella Bleu Travolta in this movie.


This movie revolves around Robin's character, Dan Rayburn trying to repair his relationship with his ex-wife and his two kids. The plot is too simple and of course tad predictable. Maybe two or three good laughs but the jokes is like "been there, see that before". I would feel sorry for the casts as I could see they were trying so hard to save this movie or just simply make this movie humurous but they just cannot be Tinkerbell by just sprinkle some magic dust and save the movie. I am sorry eventhough I am a John Travolta fan but his acting is just too stiff and terrible, as well as Kelly Preston who acts like a laughing queen in this movie, maybe you can compare her with Julia White in Transformers 2. Robin Williams and Seth Green did just fine for this movie, yet they even cannot save the movie. Watch cameos by the late Bernie Mac and Matt Dillon.


Overall, this movie is just TOO TOO TOO predictable and TOO TOO TOOO painful to watch. The jokes are just not funny, in fact the jokes make you look like a fool for watching this. A little piece of advice to John Travolta, stop acting in any Walt Becker movies, do act in movies like Broken Arrow or Face Off or even like Saturday Night Fever. Besides that John, please look at the mirror whether you hair suits your personality because SERIOUSLY that hair of yours in Old Dogs REALLY REALLY does not suit you at all.


My Review: 0.5/5
Rotten Tomatoes: 5%