The Roberto Flack Chronicles

Here’s the list of the Oscar winners from lastnight:

Best Picture
**Winner** Argo (Warner Bros.), Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney, Producers
Amour (Sony Pictures Classics), Margaret Menegoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka and Michael Katz, Producers
Beasts of the Southern Wild (Fox Searchlight), Dan Janvey, Josh Penn and Michael Gottwald, Producers
Django Unchained (The Weinstein Company), Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin and Pilar Savone, Producers
Les Misérables (Universal), Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward and Cameron Mackintosh, Producers
Life of Pi (20th Century Fox), Gil Netter, Ang Lee and David Womark, Producers
Lincoln (DreamWorks), Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers
Silver Linings Playbook (The Weinstein Company), Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen and Jonathan Gordon, Producers
Zero Dark Thirty (Sony), Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow and Megan Ellison, Producers

Directing
**Winner** Ang Lee – Life of Pi
Michael Haneke – Amour
Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild
Steven Spielberg – Lincoln
David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook

Actor in a Leading Role
**Winner** Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln
Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook
Hugh Jackman – Les Misérables
Joaquin Phoenix – The Master
Denzel Washington – Flight

Actress in a Leading Role
**Winner** Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty
Emmanuelle Riva – Amour
Quvenzhané Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild
Naomi Watts – The Impossible

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With the recent Disney purchase of Lucasfilms, talks of the new Star Wars trilogy began immediately following the announcement. But what was once rumored seems to be coming to life as Disney now are looking to expand on some of the characters from the original Star Wars films creating films based solely on the individual character. The two main characters in discussion are Han Solo and Boba Fet.

The adventures of Han Solo pre-A New Hope was actually the focus of one of the earliest Star Wars novels, 1979′s “Han Solo at Star’s End”, set two years before the events of the 1977 film.

The Boba Fett film, meanwhile, would be set between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back and would follow the bounty hunter on an intergalactic adventure.

Both of the the films (of which Lawrence Kasdan is said to be writing one and Simon Kinberg writing the other) are tentatively planned to see release sometime after 2015 when J.J. Abrams’ Episode VII is planned to hit theaters.
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Beyond the game (which was actually exciting), people seem to always anticipate the commercials and movie trailers. Here are the majority of them.

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