The Dossing Times » Brad Pitt http://www.thedossingtimes.com/blog Blogging...instead of doing something useful. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:21:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Oscar Nominations Announced http://www.thedossingtimes.com/blog/2009/01/22/oscar-nominations-announced/ http://www.thedossingtimes.com/blog/2009/01/22/oscar-nominations-announced/#comments Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:54:02 +0000 ck http://www.thedossingtimes.com/blog/?p=2670 So lets start with the good:

Heath Ledger, Best Supporting Actor for ‘The Dark Knight’ is not surprising, but very welcome. This category threw up the best surprise for me in the form of a nomination for Robert Downey Jnr. in ‘Tropic Thunder’ – its an all too rare sign of humour and a broad range of movies being considered by the Academy. Similarly, Best Supporting Actress has thrown up a nice surprise with Taraji P Henson being nominated for her heartful and charming role in ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’. I plan on seeing each of the big 5 before the awards but I just have an impression that ‘Button’ is over represented overall.

Irish interests are represented in the form of a Best Screenplay (Original) for Martin McDonagh for his work in ‘In Bruges’ – truly a dynamite script and ‘In Bruges’ is on top of DVDs I want to re-watch before the awards this time next month. There is also Irish interest in the Best Live Action Short Film category, where Steph Green’s ‘New Boy’ is among the nominees.

These highlights out of the way the list of nominees comes across as lacklustre – too many old reliables make an appearance – Meryl Streep who probably has her own car space at the Kodak Theatre as she receives her 15th nomination, while Philip Seymour Hoffman and

]]> http://www.thedossingtimes.com/blog/2009/01/22/oscar-nominations-announced/feed/ 0 Review: ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ http://www.thedossingtimes.com/blog/2009/01/17/review-the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button/ http://www.thedossingtimes.com/blog/2009/01/17/review-the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button/#comments Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:26:58 +0000 ck http://www.thedossingtimes.com/blog/?p=2639 ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ is equal parts extraordinary and so very ordinary. It encompasses the first and last breaths of a man and much of what passes in between, where aside from his condition he lives a life of questioning, struggle, joy and comfort that could characterise any life, fictional or otherwise. The grounds for presenting this tale to a medical journal are that our protagonist is born, with the dimensions of a baby and all the symptoms of an aged octogenarian. With each day, his body grows younger, at one point resembling the Brad Pitt we all know and for the remainder groundbreaking effects and makeup show Pitt

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