In just a few hours, the telecast of the Oscars (or, as we refer to them, the “Weirdcademy Awards for squares”) will begin. We are happy to steal the Academy’s thunder by announcing cinema’s weirdest winners of 2019 now. In the category of “Weirdest Short Film,” the winner is Nadia Lee Cohen for “Future Beach.” … Continue reading AND THE WINNERS OF THE 10TH ANNUAL WEIRDCADEMY AWARDS ARE… →

Joaquin Phoenix can play a pot-smoking detective investigating a dental cabal (or something like that, who can follow the plot?) in Inherent Vice and not get a sniff from the Academy; but get D.C.’s blessing to dress up like an angsty sociopathic clown, and suddenly it’s Oscar time? Scarlett Johansson plays a Scottish alien who … Continue reading YOUR VOTE DETERMINES THE WINNER OF THE 10TH ANNUAL WEIRDCADEMY AWARDS →

In just a few hours, the telecast of the Oscars (or, as we refer to them, the “Weirdcademy Awards for squares”) will begin. We are happy to steal the Academy’s Thunder by announcing cinema’s weirdest winners of 2018 now. In the category of “Weirdest Short Film,” the winner is u m a m i for … Continue reading AND THE WINNERS OF THE 9TH ANNUAL WEIRDCADEMY AWARDS ARE… →

So Nic Cage gets a Most Conventional Actor Oscar for stumbling around drunk in Las Vegas and failing to get an erection in the final scene, but when sorts a mysterious hallucinogenic powder he finds lying around in a Satanic biker’s lair and forges his own axe to mow down the hippies who burnt his … Continue reading YOUR VOTE DETERMINES THE WINNER OF THE 9TH ANNUAL WEIRDCADEMY AWARDS →

In just a few hours, the telecast of the Oscars (or, as we refer to them, the “Weirdcademy Awards for squares”) will begin. We are happy to steal the Academy’s Thunder by announcing cinema’s weirdest winners of 2017 now. In the category of “Weirdest Short Film,” the winner is Kirsten Lepore for her strangely erotic (?) … Continue reading AND THE WINNERS OF THE 8TH ANNUAL WEIRDCADEMY AWARDS ARE…. →

So Casey Affleck gets a Most Conventional Actor Oscar for mooning around New England looking like he got served a bad bowl of clam chowder, but when he does an entire movie with a sheet over his head with eyeholes cut out watching Rooney Mara eat a pie, he doesn’t even get a sniff from … Continue reading YOUR VOTE DETERMINES THE WINNERS OF THE 8TH ANNUAL WEIRDCADEMY AWARDS →

In just a few hours, the telecast of the Oscars (or, as we refer to them, the “Weirdcademy Awards for squares”) will begin. We are happy to steal the Academy’s Thunder by announcing cinema’s weirdest winners of 2015 now. In the category of “Weirdest Short Film,” the winner is Daniel Moshel‘s impossibly complicated street performance … Continue reading AND THE WINNERS OF THE 7TH ANNUAL WEIRDCADEMY AWARDS ARE… →