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	Marlon Brando declines Oscar by The Ovi Team March 27th, on this day in 1973, the actor Marlon Brando declines the Acad
	The Last Emperor: Oriental opulence by Asa Butcher When describing the majority of Best Picture winners over the past 80 years, “sweeping”, “epic” and “biographical” are three of the more common adjectives employed, although we mustn’t forget that having a
	The day after in Downing Str. by Thanos Kalamidas David Cameron has the majority but nit the keys for the Downing Street …yet! Gordon Brown on his side seems a bit dizzy from the unavoidable Nick Gregg enjoys becoming the star with the chance to be a star not only for ten minutes but for fo

	Ovi @ 82nd Academy Awards by The Ovi Team
	Around the World in Eighty Days: A review by Asa Butcher
	The 2010 Academy Awards Nominations by Asa Butcher
	On the Waterfront: Definitely a contender by Asa Butcher Elia Kazan and Marlon Brando were two Hollywood personalities that could instantly polarise opinion, but whatever your personal stance towards either you cannot help but admire some of the films that they both left behind as their legacy.
	The Godfather: Part II is no mere sequel by Asa Butcher Imagine Leonardo da Vinci's “Mona Lisa” moving at 24 frames-per-second. Picture Picasso's “
	Dancing in France by Asa Butcher
	No bucks, no Buck Rogers by Asa Butcher Before the famous Apollo missions began, NASA launched its space program with Project Mercury, which was the United States' first manned spaceflight program. Its simple aim was to put a man in orbit around the Ea
	Godfather who? by Asa Butcher
	The Chai Wallah Oscar by Asa Butcher
	Ovi & the Oscars: Live by Asa Butcher Tonight's the night that the stars come out to place their fragile egos on the line and then perform that well-rehearsed loser's face, but for the rest of us mere mortals the Academy Awards are a chance to bitch about the fashion, creat
	Cimino's career peak by Asa Butcher
	The Grand Hotel Waltz by Asa Butcher
	Frankly, my dear, you should give a damn! by Asa Butcher
	The Entertainer by Asa Butcher
	$2,000 dollars an ounce by Asa Butcher
	Sand in my living room by Asa Butcher Heroic, grandiose, momentous, significant, tremendous, huge, vast and monumental are just a few of the synonyms suggested by my thesaurus when looking up the word 'epic', and I can declare, unflinchingly, that
	A Guilty Pleasure by Asa Butcher From the opening scene of Julie Andrews, swirling around on top of a grassy Alpine hilltop, belting out "The hills are alive…" to the Salzburg Music Festival audience all singing "Edelweiss", t
	Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter by Asa Butcher Some would say that Shakespeare in Love was a Best Picture tragedy, while others would argue it was a comedy worthy of the seven statuettes. You are now wondering into which category my allegiance falls, but th
	Hollywood's Big Top by Asa Butcher Regular readers of Ovi will have realised by now that I am a man on a movie mission and the goal is to review each of the 80 Academy Award Best Picture winners. This is a challenge that I have undertaken with enthusiasm
	Borgnine's brilliant butcher by Asa Butcher Last year I reviewed From Here to Eternity to honour Ernest Borgnine's 90th birthday, since it was his big screen debut, but I now admit that the film was my
	Refreshing the cinematic palette by Asa Butcher When you think of joint ventures between director Frank Capra and actor James Stewart the first film you usually pick is It's a Wonderful Life (1946), but that was actually their third an
	Mister Tibbs! by Asa Butcher In 1928 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences bestowed the very first Best Picture Academy Award to William A. Wellman's Wings. Eighty years later billions of viewers will be tuning in to discover
	Popeye and Cloudy by Asa Butcher The sad passing of Roy Scheider, aged 75, this month has prompted me to rewind 37 years to 1971 and his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Four years before his acclaimed role in Jaw
	The Conscience of Mankind by Asa Butcher "In the words of General George C. Marshall, the American Secretary of State, "Mahatma Gandhi had become the spokesman for the conscience of mankind, a man who made humility and simple truth more powerful th
	Fontaine of Youth by Asa Butcher Following the recent passing of Deborah Kerr at 86 recently, it is warming to be reminded that there are still a few of the great leading ladies of the 1930s and 1940s remaining. Strangely, two of these surviving lea
	The Scorsese Snub - Ends! by Asa Butcher Martin Scorsese is a directorial genius. He has helmed at least one of everybody's top ten films and worked with most of the biggest names in Hollywood. Following his win at the Golden Globes for directing The Departed and ten other d
	Borgnine's big break by Asa Butcher Long before BASEketball , Airwolf, The Wild Bunch and The Dirty Dozen, Ernest Borgnine made his big screen debut in From Here