So about this book of mine
As most of my friends know, I have written a teenage spy novel. This is the spiel I have been using to pitch it: “The Boy Who Knew Too Much” is an a...
Author: Jeffrey Westhoff
Oscar wrapup: Pizzas, Lupita and pointless montages
So it turns out the 86th annual Academy Awards weren’t as unpredictable as people imagined, but that’s been happening a lot lately. With all the pre...
Oscar wrapup: Pizzas, Lupita and pointless montages
So it turns out the 86th annual Academy Awards weren’t as unpredictable as people imagined, but that’s been happening a lot lately. With all the preliminary awa...
Jeffrey’s fearless, and probably wrong, Oscar predictions
For what they’re worth (not much), my Oscar predictions: BEST PICTURE: 12 Years a Slave. No, Gravity. No, 12 Years a Slave. No wait, Gravity. Oh, let me find a ...
‘Frozen’ could end Disney’s Oscar cold streak
If, as widely expected, Frozen wins the Oscar for best animated feature this Sunday it will, believe it not, be the first time a Disney film wins the award. I’m...
Thoughts on Harold Ramis
In the winter of 1992 I was a copy editor and film critic with the Northwest Herald and living in Woodstock, Illinois. My apartment was two blocks from the Wood...