(500) Days of Summer

We've been talking about Avatar and Up in the Air and Precious for a while when it comes to the end-of-the-year awards stuff, but now we have two new movies to throw into the fold: The Hangover and Star Trek. Both were nominated by the Writers Guild for their screenplays.

The nominations for the Oscars of independent film were announced today. Precious lead the pack at the Independent Spirit Awards with five nominations including for Best Picture, Best Actress, Gabourey Sidibe, and Best Supporting Actress, Mo'Nique, starting off it's trip towards the actual Oscars.

Sorry to all the emo boys around the country, but cutie Zooey Deschanel has married Death Cab for Cutie frontman, Ben Gibbard.

It’s so rare for a film to honestly evoke or replicate the experience of falling in love and even more unusual for it to chronicle, heartbreakingly, what happens if that relationship goes awry. Delightfully, (500) Days of Summer is one of those extraordinarily uncommon gems.

From the beginning, the film explains it is not a love story, “it’s a story about love,” one the promises to enrapture audiences and I’d be willing to bet picks up one of those spiffy new Top Ten Best Picture Oscar nods during award season.

In an interview with USA Today, Zooey Deschanel and Justin Gordon-Levitt discussed their onscreen chemistry and Zooey's habit of sticking with guys.

It took four days, 51 hours of sleep and a hefty dose of mind numbing VH1, but we’ve finally regained some semblance of normalcy after the melee that is 20-hours-a-day, five-movies-straight, living-on-Sugar-free-Red-Bull, did-I-just-spill-my-coffee-on-Spike-Lee Sundance.

We just returned home to LA to find a stack of mail, a DVR busting at the seams and a fridge so pathetically empty, we might have to eat baking soda for breakfast.

Our time in Sundance has come to an end, snowy summer camp is over and we’re already feeling the withdrawal.

There is a certain pulsating mania in Sundance that is magical. Five films a day, meals consisting of sugarfree Red Bull and Krispy Kremes, bathroom celebrity sighting and weather so cold it makes your jaw numb and your teeth hurt had become the norm for us.

When we read the description of Peter and Vandy we thought, "Awwww, poor them. Their thunder is so totally being stolen by 500 Days of Summer."

It’s so rare for a film to truly evoke or replicate the experience of falling in love and then, heartbreakingly, what happens when that love goes awry.

Delightfully, 500 Days of Summer is one of those extraordinarily uncommon gems.