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		<title>Five Tips for Winning your Oscar Pool</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saw this article today from Drew Magary at Popcornbiz and thought I&#8217;d share his tips with AATM readers, particularly Dan, Harry and Aaron, who will all be getting cinematically teabagged by yours truly when I rule the weekend with my awesome Oscar picks. I need some revenge and redemption after getting worked by Dan, Aaron and Harry (in that order) in picking Oscar nominees. 1. Pay Attention To Everyone Else’s Predictions And Slavishly Follow Them Listen to who people in the industry are predicting. Don’t go with any wild, outside the box predictions just because YOU have a hunch. Oh, you think Jeremy Renner could sneak in a shocking Best Actor win? You are wrong. That isn’t happening. Ever. Get your picks from people who know what they’re talking about. Entertainment Weekly. Roger Ebert. The Gurus of Gold. Trust me. This will help. Don’t go it alone, and don’t think you can intuit some magic insight about how Oscar voters vote that no one else can divine. That is stupid. Let everyone else in the office weed themselves out of the pool by making these wild stabs. The only surprises that happen at the Oscars are the ones that, really, NO ONE sees. There may be a shocking win on Sunday night. I promise you it won’t be one you picked. 2. If You Can Help It, Don’t See Any Of The Nominated Films Seeing the movies will just make you biased. Perhaps “An Education” was your favorite movie of the year. You don’t want that clouding up the fact that it has no prayer of ever winning Best Picture. The Oscars care not for your subjective whims, Film Boy. 3. The Pool Is Won Or Lost In The Annoying Small Categories Everyone will pick the same winners in the main categories (only Picture and Director are relative tossups at this point). After that, your pool will come down to categories like Cinematography, Costume Design, and the dreaded Live Action Short and Animated Short categories. When it comes to all short film and documentary categories, it’s important to ask yourself one question: Is this movie about the Holocaust? If it is, check that box. 4. Don’t Submit More Than One Entry This isn’t March Madness. It’s an Oscar pool. Don’t be Mr. Hedgebetter. 5. Don’t Submit Your Picks Until The Last Minute You don’t want to submit your picks early, and then see one of your picks turn up arrested for arson, or find out that Mo’Nique killed her good will by agreeing to co-star in “Norbit 2.” Remember: these are actors you’re picking. They do stupid things. Don’t give them time to ruin you forever.]]></description>
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		<title>Crazy Heart Behind the Scenes Featurette</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We sung the praises of Crazy Heart on tonight&#8217;s KVNU Movie Show, but if you&#8217;re still unsure on whether or not to give the film a shot, check out this behind-the-scenes featurette from Fox Searchlight. Happy Friday!]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Review: Crazy Heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first thing you should know about Crazy Heart – a simple yet searing portrait of a tired and broken country music artist named Bad Blake – is it will bring to Jeff Bridges (Iron Man) his first-ever Academy Award win out of five nominations over the last 40 years.  You should also know if you live in Cache Valley and plan to see this movie, you’ll have to head south to Ogden, where it’s showing at the Megaplex 13 at The Junction.  With all the crap jam packed into the multiplexes lately, Crazy Heart is a burst of fresh, inspiring cinema, driven by the haunting old school twang of the film’s soundtrack and the emotionally resonant acting from Bridges. Crazy Heart is directed by Scott Cooper and adapted from the 1987 novel of the same name, written by Thomas Cobb. The main character, Bad Blake (Jeff Bridges) is a mélange of country and Western music bad boys, namely Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Merle Haggard. Blake’s past is best summed up in a line from one of his songs, “I used to be somebody, but now I am somebody else.” The person he is now is an alcoholic drifter, wandering from one small-town, low-paying gig to another, all the while splitting time between cheap motels and his dilapidated old car. It’s never fully explained, but part of Blake’s wandering seems to revolve around a former protégé, Tommy Sweet (Colin Farrell), and the assumption he’s left Blake alone in the wake and dust of his newfound success. At a gig in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Blake is interviewed by a local reporter, Jean Craddock (Maggie Gyllenhall), and the two become fast friends and a romantic attraction stirs in both their hearts. Jean, like Blake, has suffered disappointments and failures in the past, and perhaps this uniting of two broken and bruised souls is the catalyst for the brief love they share. If Crazy Heart has a fault, it’s that we know where the story is going midway through the feature. We know Bad and Jean can’t be together and we know somehow he’ll break her trust because of his abuse of alcohol. And that’s just what happens. That could be seen as a sad, sobering juncture in the movie, but this story isn’t about love and romance, it’s about life and redemption, however clichéd that might sound. Jean wasn’t the love of Blake’s life, but she was the spark that saved him. I absolutely loved Crazy Heart and Jeff Bridges is utterly compelling and believable as Bad Blake. I’d say I was surprised, but really we’ve come to expect this from Bridges. From Starman to The Big Lebowski to even Iron Man, his acting is strong, bold and his characters are always stunning. I also can’t say enough about the soundtrack, on which Bridges, Farrell, and Robert Duvall all do their own singing. Credit T-Bone Burnett (who also worked on O Brother, Where Art Thou?) for another masterful musical creation....]]></description>
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