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DVD Review: Oscar Losses Don’t Deflate “Up in the Air”

Bob Cashill March 17, 2010 0

One of the few upsets at this year’s tepid Academy Awards was Precious beating Up in the Air for Best Adapted Screenplay. The film had won scripting awards from the Writers Guild of America,

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No Concessions: Tops, Flops, Oscars, Razzies

Bob Cashill February 8, 2010 10

From Avatar to the Transformers sequel, from Up in the Air to the depths of Obsessed, a look back at the highs and lows of 2009 as awards season takes shape

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Political Culture: Ayn Rand’s Shangri-La of Self-Interest

Jon Cummings January 7, 2010 26

I tried. I tried so hard. You’ve gotta believe me when I tell you how I tried and tried to finish Ayn Rand’s oversize chronicle of obsessive-compulsive capitalism, Atlas Shrugged, over the holidays so

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