- Jon Stewart was near perfect with his hosting duties. Great jokes and a perfect delivery. Even when he treaded into dicey territory (political jokes, etc) he was able to pull them off with ease. Also I have to commend him for giving people their “Oscar Moments”. Being a fan of the movie Once, I groaned when Marketa Irglova got the mic cut on her before she could give her thank yous for winning Best Original Song. Thanks, Jon for fixing this by bringing Marketa back out after the commercial break and giving her a well deserved moment.

- While on the subject of Original Song. 3 songs from one movie (Enchanted). C’mon there has to be more than 3 movies with good songs on them. No nods to Eddie Vedder for Into The Wild?

- The Animated Movie category was lacking, hard. The Simpsons, Shrek, B Movie were all released this year and none of them got any sort of recognition.

- Where was the mention of the passing of Brad Renfro in the “In Memoriam” section? Or an even bigger oversight, Roy Scheider!? Brody dies and no one notices?

Tell us what do you think?

The full list of winners after the jump.
Performance by an actor in a leading role
Daniel Day-Lewis in “There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)

Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Javier Bardem in “No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)

Performance by an actress in a leading role
Marion Cotillard in “La Vie en Rose” (Picturehouse)

Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Tilda Swinton in “Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.)

Best animated feature film of the year
“Ratatouille” (Walt Disney): Brad Bird

Achievement in art direction
“Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount): Art Direction: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo

Achievement in cinematography
“There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax): Robert Elswit

Achievement in costume design
“Elizabeth: The Golden Age” (Universal) Alexandra Byrne

Achievement in directing
“No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage), Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

Best documentary feature
“Taxi to the Dark Side” (THINKFilm) An X-Ray Production: Alex Gibney and Eva Orner

Best documentary short subject
“Freeheld” A Lieutenant Films Production: Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth

Achievement in film editing
“The Bourne Ultimatum” (Universal): Christopher Rouse

Best foreign language film of the year
“The Counterfeiters” Austria

Achievement in makeup
“La Vie en Rose” (Picturehouse) Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
“Atonement” (Focus Features) Dario Marianelli

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
“Falling Slowly” from “Once” (Fox Searchlight) Music and Lyric by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova

Best motion picture of the year
“No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) A Scott Rudin/Mike Zoss Production: Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers

Best animated short film
“Peter & the Wolf” (BreakThru Films) A BreakThru Films/Se-ma-for Studios Production Suzie Templeton and Hugh Welchman

Best live action short film
“Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)” (Premium Films) A Karé Production: Philippe Pollet-Villard

Achievement in sound editing
“The Bourne Ultimatum” (Universal): Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg

Achievement in sound mixing
“The Bourne Ultimatum” (Universal) Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis

Achievement in visual effects
“The Golden Compass” (New Line in association with Ingenious Film Partners): Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood

Adapted screenplay
“No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage), Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen

Original screenplay
“Juno” (A Mandate Pictures/Mr. Mudd Production), Written by Diablo Cody

A group of us saw the movie last night. We thought you’d benefit from our quick reviews in 100 words or less. But, to quote the kids from Reading Rainbow, “You don’t have to take our word for it.”

Jon Landman

Holy Crap, Stallone looks terrible; HGH & Steroids definitely don’t do the body good when you hit 63 years old. Rambo delivers on exactly what it promised from the previews and trailer. Killings, Shootings, More Killings and lots of bodies hitting the floor (although said song doesn’t actually appear in the movie = apparently the song was never a Nu-Metal hit in Burma). There is a loose plot and a classic John J. Rambo flashback sequence that was amazing. PLOT SPOILER AHEAD = Just Kidding. The enemy was destroyed and Rambo returns to America after years of being a confused killing machine.

Bram Teitelman

The Rambo movies had always held a mirror to society, whether it’s the Vietnam war (the first two), or Russia (the 3rd one). Now that we’re at a stalemate in Iraq, John J Rambo gives us a war we can win 20 years after the last flick hit theaters. The plot? Who cares, there’s killin’! After ferrying some Mission(aries) to Burma, instead of reaching for his revolver, Stallone reaches for his bow and arrow, knife, lots of high powered guns, and a nuclear warhead and rips someone’s throat out in a ballet of blood and gore. The first must-see of 2008!

Matt Kleinschmidt

Let the Midnight Meat Train hit the floor. Um, don’t bother looking for a plot for it was abandoned about 30 minutes into the flick. Right around the time Rambo decided that being a blacksmith and forging a knife makes you reflect upon your life of killing machine-ness. Evil dudes blow up, they get their throats ripped out, they have sex with young boys. Stallone shoots sterioids directly into his temples and is the “boat man.” In Burma it only rains at night and everything looks like your grandfather’s backyard. Also, in Burma, everyone comes out to fight to save the white lady but not the Burmese ones. Boom! Red Smoke!

Michelle Rakshys (who has already seen the movie twice!)

Sometimes a gal just isn’t in the mood for 27 Dresses, and would much prefer to watch limbs flying through the air. Luckily Rambo delivers those flying limbs, as well as headless bodies, and torsos with holes so big you can see more people getting killed on the other side. It also teaches us how to rip out a man’s throat with our bare hands, and how to blow-up tracking dogs. Who needs a plot line when there are more lessons than an episode of Man Vs. Wild? However, the mass amount of bloodshed overshadows many spoken gems, like “Live for nothing, die…for something”, which will surely end up as a bumper sticker or a commemorative t-shirt.

The movie, opening September 21st, stars Dane Cook as a dentist named Charlie who has an uncanny ability to allow women to find the man of their dreams after they have a romantic encounter with him. This poses a problem for Charlie as he needs to find a way to break his curse once he begins to fall in love with the girl of his dreams, played by Jessica Alba.

Album art and tracklisting can be seen after the jump.

Good Luck Chuck tracklisting.

1 – The Flaming Lips ” I Was Zapped By The Lucky Super Rainbow”
2 – The Honorary Title “Accident Prone”
3 – The Dandy Warhols “Good Luck Chuck”
4 – The Feeling “Love It When You Call (Cherrytree House Version)”
5 – Art Brut “Good Weekend”
6 – Shout Out Louds “Hurry Up Let’s Go”
7 – Aidan Hawken “Shut Me Out”
8 – Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings “You’re Gonna Get It”
9 – Pepper “The Whistle Song”
10 – The Cars “You Might Think”
11 – Olivia Newton-John “Physical”
12 – Bauhaus “Bela Lugosi’s Dead”
13 – Antique Gold “Crazy In Love”

Quirky is a word there just begins to describe the mood of Eagle vs. Shark. Many people had described it to me as a “New Zealand Napoleon Dynamite“, and I can see where they draw the resemblance. I tend to like Eagle vs. Shark much better for two reasons: there is A, a plot, and B, character development. It follows the developing relationship of Lily and Jarrod, the male and female winners for the Most Awkward Person contest. Lily is a painfully shy Meaty Boy checkout girl who develops a raging crush on one of her regular customers. The Meaty Boy loving Jarrod is a space cadet in the highest sense of the term, so wrapped up in the fantasy world he has created for himself that he would fail to recognize his face in the mirror, let alone another person’s undying love for him.

The surprisingly tenacious Lily wrangles an invite to one of Jarrod themed parties, in which attendees are required to dress as their favorite animal (hence, Eagle vs. Shark). Their interaction at this shindig results in what I am going to cautiously christen the most hilariously awkward hookup scene in the history of film. I mean really; the movie is worth seeing specifically for that two minutes of makeout gold.

The plot potion of the film begins when the new couple journeys to Jarrod’s hometown to exact revenge on his childhood nemesis. We are then introduced to the dysfunctional excuse for a family that has managed to produce a man-child like Jarrod. The rest of the film centers around Lily, Jarrod, and his family attempting to gain some sort of understanding of each other.

The strength of Eagle vs. Shark is its ability make a viewer laugh, cringe, and go “aww” all at the same time. There were several moments in the movie where I had to look around at other audience members to make sure it was okay to laugh. By the end of the film, I had fallen completely in love with Lilys’ character, who continues to pursue the love of her life despite his complete and utter idiocy. Also of note is the films’ kick-ass soundtrack, provided mostly by New Zealand band The Phoenix Foundation, with contributions by M. Ward and The Stone Roses. The all New Zealander cast, which includes about-to-be-famous Flight of the Conchords guy Jermaine Clement as Jarrod, manages to hit just the right mix of humor and awkwardness that this type of movie requires. Eagle vs. Shark comes highly recommended from me, which should be all the recommendation you need.

Watch some footage of Mando Diao performing their song “Long Before Rock N Roll” at the party now.

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Thanks to Jim and the rest of our buddies at Synner Nation for the footage.