Tonight is the 2009 Oscar Awards - I just looked through the ballot and realized I haven’t seen many of the nominees. I’m definitely hoping the best for Mickey Rourke’s performance in “The Wrestler” (I’m pulling for Marisa Tomei for the same movie - but mainly because I never stopped loving her from “My Cousin Vinny”),  and of course I want Heath Ledger to get the award he deserves…

My pick for Best Film is without question “Let the Right One in”…

I’d also like to point out that with my birthday coming this week, it also happens to be a great week for films. Not only are we looking at my favorite film of all time - “True Romance” as a grand finale to our Sweet Butter Fridays - Extra Butter February Film Series…but “Let the Right One in” is also playing at Huntington’s Cinema Arts Centre for their “Theatre of the Wild” series - THIS WEDNESDAY @ both 7 and 9PM.

We’ll be attending the 9PM in case anyone would like to join….

Considering “Let the Right One in” is not even nominated for any Oscars I’ve decided to take advice from Oh Mars’ post on the Mishka Bloglin, and am going to see “Taken” which was written by Luc Besson (The Professional/Leon)!!

…while eating dinner before making my way out I caught the stunning Penelope Cruz win Best Supporting Actress for “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”, which is a favorite of the Woody Allen movies.

Movie madness!!

-cinemaniac