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I believe the word you are looking for is “FINALLY”

Gary Oldman received his first Oscar nomination ever last week for his role in the quite good Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. I’m not going to lie, I was kind of surprised; he’d received a lot of buzz very early on in Oscar season but I hadn’t heard much lately and assumed the film was Too British to really make much of an impact on the Academy. I am delighted to be wrong!

But let’s be serious. As I said last year when my Michael Fassbender obsession exploded, as a Gary Oldman fan, I am not unfamiliar with the pain and tragedy of working through an actor’s back catalogue on a quest to see everything they’ve ever done, only to encounter performances in middling to horrendous projects too upsetting to comprehend. This nomination is reward for our suffering. We all know what he’s awesome in (tip: everything), so instead I bring you the Top Five Most Horrible Gary Oldman Films Ever.

Believe me, it was challenging to restrict this list to only five. (Beware spoilers and also maybe some scary imagery.) Continue reading →

Red Riding Hood

Infatuated tweens and Bill Compton are probably the only people who can enjoy the mucky melodrama in this one.

feeling cautiously optimistic

I am having a heart attack of potential awesome!! I was looking in my site stats and saw someone had Googled “Keith Richards Gary Oldman” and while it’s obvious how they ended up here eventually, I decided Googled it myself anyway.

Results? A myriad of links about GARY OLDMAN NARRATING THE AUDIOBOOK OF KEITH RICHARDS’ AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

HEART. ATTACK. Amazon (.com and .ca) is currently listing the audio book readers as Keef himself, Johnny Depp, and some other dude. Amazon.de is listing Keef (Autor) and Gary Oldman (Sprecher) and while I would love to defer to the Germans, it seems that the last references I can find to Oldman being the narrator are from June of this year. As I have yet to find any real definitive information on the subject, I am holding out for the possibility that the miraculously unexpected is indeed true and that dear Gaz does indeed read part of it. Try not to kill my dreams.

In other news, I think the book itself has been at the top of the Globe and Mail’s hardcover nonfiction bestseller list since it came out, which is incredibly awesome given that he’s beating out Justin Bieber. THERE ARE STILL SOME THINGS RIGHT WITH THIS WORLD.

my other favourite fictional holiday

Happy Gary Oldman Birthday Day! Today ol’ Gaz is 52. In my younger, more rabid years of fangirling I used to celebrate the day with big picspams and movie marathons but now it takes the IMDB birthday listings or a nudge from my sisters for me to remember. (Yes, my sisters remind me about it, they’re good that way.) It’s a sad state of affairs to be sure.

I have nothing to offer today except for a repost of something I did about five years ago and still had the pictures kicking around for: Name That Gary Oldman Facial Hair!

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The Unborn

The things I do for Gary Oldman, I tell you.