Oscar Time

Top 10
The Master
Silver Linings Playbook
Searching for Sugarman
Argo 
Beasts of the Southern Wild
The Late Quartet
Lincoln
Zero Dark Thirty 
Polisse
Central Park Five

Honorable Mention
Take This Waltz
Promised Land 
Killer Joe
Bernie

Best TV Series/Shows
Homeland
Mad Men
Real Time with Bill Maher
Smash
The Killing
The Good Wife
Boardwalk Empire

Best Cast
Silver Linings Playbook

Best Song (and most blunt)
I Wonder from Searching for Sugarman

Best Freckles
Eddie Redmayne in Les Miserables


Best Scene
Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook dancing to Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash singing Dylan's song, Girl from the North Country.

Oscar Nominations - OMG!!!

What?  The Master did not get nominated as one of the 10 best pictures of 2012 and no best director nor best cinematography nods?  Outrageous!  And what about The Late Quartet and a nod to Christopher Walken?  And neither Kathyrn Bigelow nor Ben Afleck were nominated??  The Oscar show can't mean much this year because of these oversights.

5 Holiday Season Movies

Django Unchained - An extremely bloody and gory slave revenge fantasy.  C+
Promised Land - A good, solid movie about fracking with Matt Damon and Francis McDormand.  B
Impossible - The horrors and anguish (continual) of the southeast Asia tsunami, based upon a true story. C+
Les Miserables - A long, but sometimes compelling musical with the astounding Hugh Jackman, etal, including oncoming and dazzling new star, Eddie Redmayne.   B-
The Central Park Five - An astonishing film about a total miscarriage of justice.  Frightening in many ways.  B+.