Film Review Podcast: “The Artist” & “Haywire”

How coincidental is it that on the day the Academy Award nominees are announced, I review “The Artist?”

Which film, as you probably know, has already garnered any number of awards, including three from the new major playah in Hollywoodland, the Foreign Movie Press. A/K/A the Golden Globes.

So I guess it’s kinda neat but, well, not that big of a deal. Besides all this introductory blather is really of little consequence, since I also review a movie, which has almost totally slipped from my memory already, and I just saw it yesterday. That would be Steven Soderbergh’s “Haywire.” Yawn.

Anyhow, as I opine in the soon to be linked radio review of “The Artist,” the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences likes nothing better than to honor itself. Thus, “The Artist” and my previously reviewed “Hugo,” both of which are love letters to the movies, are going to go home with some statuettes.

Anyhow, here’s the link. Listen for yourself, or forever hold your peace.