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Read as we break down the films nominated for Best Picture and what their chances are of taking home the prize. We’re pretty sure it won’t be Crash.

Best Director is a tricky category with, like many awards bestowed at the Oscars, a questionable track record. Venerated filmmakers like Hitchcock, Kubrick, and Altman, for instance, never won the award. While it’s arguably impossible to objectively compare different works of art, Best Director is an especially elusive and subjective category that forces one to compare apples to oranges, especially with this year’s nominees.

James Cameron has stepped forward to defend author Charles Pellegrino. Pellegrino has seen his book “Last Train From Hiroshima” pulled out of circulation after publisher Henry Holt and Company found inaccuracies that the author had no reasonable explanations for.

In the world of book publishing it can take two years from the time a book is bought to the time it appears in print. The pace is glacial. You would assume that a busy team of fact checkers and editors would have the time to make certain the book they’re about to release as non fiction is accurate.

James Cameron took it to a whole new level with Avatar, and it would only be so long until some other hotshot directors had their turn to get their hands on the technology. The first hotshot director to go crazy for Cameron’s toys is Steven Spielberg. Spielberg will use this technology to create a digital world for his newest film The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, which he’s co-producing with Peter Jackson.

Quick, what’s your favorite part of James Cameron’s epic blockbuster Avatar? If your answer includes any mention of the screenplay, story, or deep and detailed characters then you’re only lying to yourself my friend.

Landon Palmer explores the nature of the Oscar nominated film The Hurt Locker, and the right of critics to call it an art house film.

On the day when James Cameron’s Avatar finally eclipses the last of Titanic’s major box office records, all of the talk is not of the past — the 1997 run that made James Cameron “King of the World,” but of the future.

Everyone is reporting that Avatar has made more money than any other movie ever. That’s not necessarily true…

Kevin and Neil ring in the new year after a band of gremlins attack the Magical Studio in the Sky and set fire to everything. After a brief rebuild, things get back in order and the Fat Guys take a moment to talk about the sure-to-be billion-dollar blockbusters coming out this fine, fine first week of January.

The Directors Guild of America announced the nominees for its 62nd Annual Awards today, honoring outstanding directorial achievement in feature films.

MGM chairperson Mary Parent needs something big to resurrect the once-great studio that is now mere days from imploding. It has to be big, steely and it must be in 3D! Of course, this doesn’t jive with everyone.

I’m going to toss out a bunch of numbers, you’re going to pretend to know what math is, and we’re all going to agree that Avatar is going to make more than you do at your job.

This is what you get when its been such a slow news week — two blue cat people and their nasty details.

You’ve seen Avatar, I’ve seen Avatar, we’ve all seen Avatar. You’ve read reviews, and reviewed it yourself. You’re probably even thinking about renaming your cat Neytiri, or at least getting a little feline with your cosplay – you sicko. And now’s the time to get a little anthropological. We’re talking about the sex of Avatar.

A sci-fi epic seems like the logical choice, but an intimate character study would have been a far better choice. Hear me out.

This past weekend, James Cameron’s Avatar opened big — not Twilight big, but big nonetheless. And just like Cameron’s last film Titanic, experts predict that it will have staying power, adding quite a few dollars (and maybe a decimal place) to the $232 million that it brought in worldwide in its first three days.

Kevin Carr sits his chubbiness down and sees if Avatar, Did You Hear About the Morgans? and Up In the Air can make the grade.

Even though we didn’t do a whole week of coverage, or lay down one of our world famous Movie Lover’s Guides, I think we’ve probably said enough about James Cameron’s Avatar. Now it’s your turn…

Kevin and Neil find themselves in a pickle… both have seen all the movies this week, and they generally agree. This doesn’t stop them from taking a few pot shots at each other as Kevin accuses Neil of being a bigot against eight-foot-tall blue aliens.