THE ACADEMY AWARDS 2011 CEREMONY

The beginning was so much fun - mostly "Inception"-based but with my all-time-fave "Back To The Future" included in the movie compilation.

Anne Hathaway, who has recently taken her gear off in "Love And Other Drugs", joked: "I'm not nominated this year. It's how it worked - you get naked, you get nominated. Not any more, not any more."

I've never liked "Toy Story" so not happy about its victory in an animated category.

Shame "Inception" didn't win Best Original Score, well at least Sound and Sound Editing - well deserved of course.

Brilliant - Cate Blanchett watching a scene from soon-to-win Best Make-Up "Wolfman": "It's gross." It had no competitors anyway. Well-deserved Costumes award for "Alice In Wonderland" as well as for Set Decoration before.

Jake Gyllenhaal has dark eyes so must have worn contacts in "Love And Other Drugs".

Billy Crystal was and is so much better a host than Anne Hathaway and what-is-his-name.

"Inception" had no competitors to speak of for Visual Effects. No Oscar for "Black Swan" for Film Editing?!

Jennifer Hudson with a lisp as a presenter?!

No Oscar for Darren Aronofsky?! Well, at least one for Natalie Portman. But can't they see he directs actresses into their best?

So after all Colin Firth didn't stutter accepting his reward. Still, he acted out the acceptance part masterfully.

THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT

Watchable. It's not about lesbians, it's about family. And what makes or breaks it has nothing to do with gender. Consequently the film is an ordinary family movie, nothing Oscar-worthy in it. Or are they going to start awarding people for their sexual orientation?

127 HOURS

Watchable. While a based-on-facts movie about a hiker trapped literally between a rock and a hard place was irresistable to my backpacking soul, the movie lacked a nerve. The struggling protagonist deserves better than Danny Boyle, Darren Aronofsky for one.

LOVE AND OTHER DRUGS

Watchable. The story is sad, totally implausible and overloaded with commercialism. Ever-hot blue-eyed Jake Gyllenhaal makes it quite palatable though.

AN EDUCATION

Watchable second time round. Of course when you remember the plot nothing can surprise you but I still enjoyed the faux-posh English accent and the education versus ignoration clash.

WOJNA ZENSKO-MESKA (FEMALE-MALE WAR)

Recommended. It's Polish so I doubt it will ever be shown abroad. Still it is the best sex com since "Sexmission". A laugh-out-loud funny satire on relations between men and women, job market ("Education?" "University degree" "So how am I to know you can do cleaning?"), corporate culture, fashion, agism (make-up artists about a 41-year-old presenter: "Next they're going to make us mummify bodies"), mass media and politics. Visually - Warsaw has never looked so glossy while the protagonist's ponderings stylistically remind "Grindhouse", just without blood and violence. Music's great too. A feast to the eye and the ear.

REMEMBER ME

Walked out. You don't need to go to the cinema to see Robert Pattinson getting wasted -he's all over tabloids already. And the plot with a pretty girl making love to the alcoholic is hardly plausible. So, having made sure my companion was as bored as I was, I walked out. We weren't the first to leave either.

The Valentine Movie Marathon didn't sell well. Not enough couples in a central location on a Friday night. Weird.

ENTER THE VOID

Watchable. Assault on your senses right from the start. Not from the first scene. From the opening credits. Crosses boundaries of cinematic showability breaking quite a few taboos. On the whole it's a well-composed psychedelic trip through the Tokyo dumpster with naturalistic scenes of an abortion, porn-style sex, children splattered with blood of their killed parents, flushing down someone's ashes etc. Lengthy at times but rewarding with some powerful shocks. One startling scene gets repeated three times!