Above and in some detail, Gold Derby’s Tom O’Neil (on the left), long affiliated with the Los Angeles Times but back out on his own in the Oscar blogging world, and The Hollywood Reporter’s Scott Feinberg discuss the upcoming Oscar race, probable Best Picture nominees and performances, and issues related to the pending release of some of the better Hollywood fare that will reach our local multiplexes over the next couple of months.
The salutary aspect of the pending ‘Oscar race’ is that it doesn’t make a whole lot of difference to the quality of our lives on this planet, but as we’ve written before, serves pretty much in the capacity of harmless diversion (unlike most of the train wreck news which passes for entertainment reporting we read in our local tabloid rags, or view on our TV screens) and, perhaps, helps as well to identify for us upcoming picture releases worth seeing, which we might very well have overlooked if not for the steadfast work of film journalists like O’Neill and Feinberg above.
