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This week I am pleased to bring you the most epic Blu-ray report in the history of my musings about the format. As you may have noted, I’ve taken the past two weeks off and have missed quite a few titles. So I’m playing catch up.

Rob Hunter loves movies. He also loves working as a professional hitman who targets women and children only because movies and books tell him they’re an untapped niche market. These two joys come together in the form of cash money payments that he receives every week and immediately uses to buy more DVD’s.

Calm down everyone. The Academy Award Nominations got it right. Just because the voters went a different way than the public doesn’t make them wrong, and Josh Radde tells us why.

This weekend the surprise winner at the box office was Gran Torino, which made $29 million. And there is one reason, and one reason only why this movie made the money that it did: Clint Eastwood.

Kevin and Neil ring in the new year with the January release schedule, which includes weddings, evil children, Tyler Perry wannabes and old racist codgers.

FSR’s resident chubby film critic Kevin Carr runs down the reviews on Bride Wars, Not Easily Broken, Gran Torino and The Reader.

The main question we face this weekend is whether the new romcom Bride Wars will carry the day at the box office, or whether the title will go to Gran Torino (expanding in wide release) or Marley and Me (which has been on top since Christmas).

For years, audiences have been astounded with the creative range of Clint Eastwood. As an actor, a director, a composer and producer, Clint has always delivered — and he’s always done so with a demeanor that can only be described as badass.

Clint Eastwood is still a badass, and I would go as far as to say that he will remain that way until the day he dies. He is also quick to remind us that we are all a bunch of pussies.

No one likes a sell out. But selling out goes both ways. This time of year, directors sell out in a different way. I’m talking about all the major mainstream Hollywood directors who “sell out” to do the award film released at the end of the year.

The American Film Institute (AFI) responsible for those “100 Years, 100 _____” lists that get people riled up every year have come out with their list of 2008’s top films.

The big news of the hour is that The Day the Earth Stood Still made $31 million at the box office over the weekend. That’s a first-place finish all right, but well below what a lot of people thought it would make.

I’m pretty sure no one is ever all that confused about what they should or shouldn’t wear to the movies, but just in case you are confused, or are drunk, this guide might help. But probably not.

Clint Eastwood goes for the ever-elusive acting Oscar with a scowl-a-thon performance as one of 2008’s most overtly racist characters.

It is that time of year again — time to kick the tires and light the fires on my Oscar Beat column, the official home of the chase for the little golden man.

Clint Eastwood’s next film, which hits theaters in December, is called Gran Torino. And for the record, there’s no part of this film that doesn’t sound awesome.