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The Oscar Nominations Hangover and the Top 10 Movies at Sundance

The Big Picture

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The Academy Awards Are a Tribute to Art

Boana: I had a lot of people in my own life get in touch with me to let me know that they didn't like Elvis. Boana: Nobody thinks that it should win Best Picture except for a bunch of really old people. Wesley Morse was on the Bill Simmons podcast talking about the Academy Awards this week as well. He said there's a sequence in Elvis in which BB King encourages Elvis to steal his music and the entirety, entire history of American Black music to have success. We also heard from our friend Van Leith and today that he also did not appreciate Elvis. Here's the thing. Elvis stinks. Like, let's get over it. This mass delusion that

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