Total Film’s website recently posted a list of 600 Film Blogs you should read. Was Army of Dave on it?

Was it bollocks.

So – purely out of spite – here’s a post about film. No jokes. And no mention of the word “Twat”. Okay. One mention of the word “Twat”.

Okay. Two. But that’s it.

And you’re going to have to read it. If I’m going down, you’re coming with me.

The Oscar nominations were announced this week and it’s a straight race between ex-husband and wife James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow. Which is taking post-marital argy-bargy a bit further than my parents after their divorce. Neither my father nor mother made ‘Aliens’ or ‘Point Break’ and I remind them of this whenever I see them.

I can’t make much comment as I’ve seen neither Avatar nor ‘The Hurt Locker’, though I’m waiting for the latter to arrive from Lovefilm. But I’m on Team Bigelow. C’mon. The woman made ‘Near Dark’. The best vampire movie ever. In fact, I think we should make some Team Cameron / Team Bigelow tee shirts.

The bigger issue for me is that ‘Moon’ didn’t get a single nomination. Not one. It was funny, touching and intelligent. It tweaked the nose of film conventions and spanked the bottom of the science-fiction genre. And Sam Rockwell gives a bravura performance, carrying the film virtually single handed. I was convinced that he would be a shoe-in for a nomination.

And the Oscar panel chose to ignore it.

Twats.

Okay. Three.