The Help and its box office, oscar potential for Viola Davis in supporting or lead, romantic comedies, deeper implications and or charges of racism in The Help
Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Andy Serkis' potential Oscar chances, the rigid Academy, The Help, The Whistleblower and a meditation on the boomer generation...
Drive, Ryan Gosling, the LA Film Festival, Diablo Cody and various other sorts of things - like Phil walking out of the Green Lantern because it was so bad.
Box office and Oscar prospects for George Clooney's the Ides of March. We join Tom O'Neil on location at the Sunset Tower hotel to discuss the new Gold Derby and run through many of the Oscar movies so far this year. Big fun.
The blowback from the success of The Hunger Games - how much it will make, can it make the jump to Oscar? The impossible becomes possible? Cinemacon, Cannes, and much much more.
Oscar prospects for Best Picture for The Help, box office for One Day. Politics and religion per our usual ramble. Also discussed a bit of the themes in Vera Farmiga's Higher Ground.