B-Side Blog Takes You Inside The Oscars

One of the many perks of my new apartment is that I’m just a few blocks away from the Kodak Theatre, the famed venue where the Oscars have been staged for the past five or six years. In honor of my easy access to the festivities, I decided to take a jaunt down to Hollywood …

Academy Award Nominations Prove To Be Resiliently Frustrating

Ugh. The Academy Award nominations were revealed this morning, and while I was happy with some of the nods, overall I’d say there were a heck of a lot of snubs — so much so that I can’t help but shake my head at the travesty of it all. And then, of course, I shake my …

The Shilling of Molly Hartley

Okay, everyone, I’m blatantly shilling The Haunting of Molly Hartley. I’m working on a script with the producers of this horror movie (out today!), and they’re really cool, nice people; so support their movie! Besides, it’s got Chace Crawford — a.k.a. Nate Archibald from Gossip Girl. Just think of the potential: Nate AND ghosts! He …

The 'Pineapple Express' Billboard is Smokin'!

The Sunset Strip gets a lot of unique billboards, the most recent being this one advertising the upcoming Judd Apatow posse movie, Pineapple Express. As you can tell from my camera phone pic, the pineapple actually emits smoke. Kind of cool. Unfortunately, just as I snapped the photo, a gust of wind blew the smoke …