Two Tickets For... Wins Golden Katz Award Thanks to Our Readers!

Good morning dear readers! (Or afternoon, or evening depending on when and where you read this post.) 

This will be really brief, but we just wanted to write a quick post thanking all of YOU for your amazing support of our little blog!

As some of you might know,last week we were nominated for an award over at our buddy Nick's blog, The Cinematic Katzenjammer, where he was holding his inaugural Golden Katz Awards - celebrating the year in movies as well as movie blogging. We were lucky enough to be nominated in the Best Rating System or Review Format category, and after a week of open voting to the public we found out this morning that we had won!

We're incredibly excited to win this award because not only were we nominated by our peers, but it was voted on by our peers and by YOU. Amazingly, the category we were nominated in garnered the most votes of any character with 146 total votes, and we're very humbled that we won the category with a total of 96 of those 146 votes.

So again, we'd like to say THANK YOU for your continued support of our blog and for going all out and voting for us in Nick's award contest.

We highly suggest heading over to Nick's site and checking out the results of the movie categories to see what films won what categories as well as checking out the other blogs that were nominated, because there are a ton of other great writers and sites out there with great content and movie coverage.

Check back here later today when we post today's Oscar Nominations Predictions, where we break down the Best Director category and share which films we think will get nominated in the two screenplay categories!

Listen to Us Talk About "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" on the As You Watch Podcast

Andrew: Hello readers! Yesterday saw the release of the first entry in Peter Jackson's new Hobbit trilogy, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. You can read our review of that right HERE, wherein we mention that prior to us seeing the film, Sarah and I had been guests on the As You Watch Podcast, and the main topic of conversation was The Hobbit and Jackson's original The Lord of the Rings trilogy. And that podcast episode has now been posted online!

We were honored to be the first guests to be on for a second time, and we had an absolute blast talking about these films with our friends Nick of The Cinematic Katzenjammer, Joe from Two Dude Review, and Vern from Vern's Video Vangaurd. So thank you, gentlemen, for having us back as guests. Now, readers, if you'd like to listen to the podcast, read on as we'll break down the different segments of the show after the jump!

DVD Court: December 11th Releases

Andrew: Hello readers! Some of you might know this and others may not, but every week Sarah and I are called in for jury duty. I mean...well, not as in we actually go down to a courthouse and listen to a prosecuting and defense attorney argue over someone's crime. We don't do that every week. Could you imagine if we did? Yikes.

No, what I mean is that every week Sarah and I are called in by our buddy, Nick, over at The Cinematic Katzenjammer to partake as members of his 12-panel jury for his DVD Court column. Each week sees the release of a new batch of movies on DVD and Blu-ray, and each week we, along with 11 other movie blogs, give our personal rulings on whether you, dear readers, should Buy, Rent, Skip or Burn the new films that have come out for your home viewing pleasure. 

It's a simple exercise and one we love being a part of. So every week we'll be posting a link to Nick's site with its swanky new design so you can see what we and our fellow jurors have decreed.

This week's new releases on DVD and Blu-ray: Seth McFarlane's Ted, Ice Age 4: Continental Drift, and The Bourne Legacy.

Click HERE to enter the courtroom at The Cinematic Katzenjammer!

Site Update (8/19/2012)

Andrew: Hello readers! It's late at night as I'm working on a remote shoot for work still, but I wanted to take the quick time to mention that we now have a new Two Tickets For... banner courtesy of Nick over at the fantasic Cinematic Katzenjammer! He took the time to make a new custom banner logo for us (a few different colored versions, in fact) and even was great enough to take a few suggestions we had to fine tune it into the final product. We cannot thank him enough for his generousity and we highly suggest you check out his sweet blog when you get the chance.

Also, we know it's been a little slow thanks to me being away from Sarah for a week now, and I still have another week before I get home, but we promise we'll try to get some new reviews up this upcoming week. I'm going to try to catch The Expendables 2 at some point in the next few days, and Sarah and I are both going to try and see ParaNorman so we can do a normal review. So be on the lookout for those!

The Liebster Award

The Liebster is an award that's passed from blogger to blogger as a recognition of quality work. We received ours from Nick at The Cinematic Katzenjammer. To accept the award however there are rules which must be followed:

1. Each person must post 11 things about themselves

2. Answer the 11 questions the person giving the award has set for you.

3. Create 11 questions for the people you will be giving the award to.

4. Choose 11 people to award and send them a link to your post.

5. Go to their page and tell them.

6. NO TAG BACKS

Since there are two of us in this blog, we will be answering these questions separately. Enjoy!