A friend sent me this link to Roger Moore’s piece in the Orlando Sentinel, about the Sundance doc Chasing Ghosts, and I have to say… it sounds kinda awesome. I’m a sucker for looks back at optimism and naivety through the busted lens of melancholic maturation, and the use of the superb Dogtown and Z-Boys as a sort of leaping-off reference point is shrewd and spot-on. (Michael Apted’s Up series, meanwhile… not so much.) Still, if this flick gathers indie cool cachet like there’s every reason to believe it will, are we going to have to sit through a masturbatory procession of explorations of every fringe American adolescent pastime?

annual Oscar roundtable, but this year they were forced to submit to a live audience of ticket buyers — a potential antidote for candor if ever there was one — at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.

That said, the above awards contenders still had some fun during the two-hour session; celebs talking amongst themselves is the new black. Among the confessions? “We’re all in it for the free food,” jokes Helen Mirren. Cate Blanchett, meanwhile, got in a nice, tangential Battlefield Earth dig, which makes me wonder… did she really watch the movie? I mean, when she and husband Andrew Upton were making it a Blockbuster night, did someone actually pick that up? For the entire Oscar roundtable, click here.