Academy Award Nominations: Benjamin Button, Slumdog, and Dark Knight lead the pack
Posted by: Paul Little • January 22, 2009 @ 10:45am
After a few years of critically-lauded but hardly-seen films vying for the top spots at the Academy Awards, many were predicting that things this year would return back to the so-called "Golden Age", when commercially successful films could still win the big awards.
Welcome back folks, House kicks off 2009 with a case that has a lot of similarities to his own. Meanwhile Cuddy struggles to balance her job with new motherhood, and Thirteen and Foreman continue their blossoming romance.
The Patient
This week's patient shares some eerie similarities with House.
Ryan Matthews has returned to West Beverly, and in light of what happened earlier this year, he has taken a new approach to teaching: Rather than being the cool, young teacher that everyone loves, he's going to be a hard-ass.
Fiction Family- Fiction Family (Amazon)
Fiction Family is a brand new side project from Switchfoot front man, Jon Foreman and Sean Watkins of Nickel Creek.
30 Rock opens this week with Liz anticipating her yearly tropical vacation (to St. Bartlebees, a mythical island where she can enjoy private beaches, free flowing ice-cream treats and can wear black socks and sandals while sunbathing). It is a mere 4 days away and she has already been experimenting with spray-on tanning products and has even purchased some new swimwear.
Bear with me, I'm new!
Tonight we were asked to pretty much forget the recent story lines of Supernatural. No Lilith, no Castiel, no Alistair (besides an honourable mention), no Bobby, no Bela... basically this episode asks us to go back to the basics of the horror story. Ok, I'll buy it this time, but please don't make a habit of it.
Welcome back Panther fans! It's the start of the season for Friday Night Lights, and a new season of football for the boys and girls of Dillon, Texas. At the end of last season, the bosses over at NBC came up with an innovative way of keeping the show's lights on, and production costs were split between the network and the digital satellite provider DirectTV.
Hmmm. I wonder what this movie's about? It couldn't be about a literal hotel for literal dogs, could it? Actually... yes, that pretty much sums up the plot of Nickelodeon Studio's latest venture into movie-dom.
Edward Zwick's Defiance is based on the true life story of three Jewish brothers who escape Nazi-occupied Poland to the Belarussian forest during World War II. Forming a resistance, the Bielski brothers build and defend a woodland community for Jewish refugees.
In our first teaser post-Christmas, we learn that Angela's been calling the cops on all the speeders on the street outside the office, and they've set up a digital speed sensor (that's the technical term I just made up) in the street.
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