So the Emmy's just happened this morning. An you have no idea how fucking pissed I am that Lost, one of the greatest television series in the last decade; that was nominated for a record 19 awards, didn't even win a single one today. Fuck you TV voting people.
Kinda bummed that Glee missed out on the Outstanding Comedy award. But justice for Jane Lynch who finally received her long overdue Emmy. So anyways, here's the full list of winners.
Outstanding Drama•Mad Men•Breaking Bad
•Dexter
•The Good Wife
•Lost
•True Blood
Outstanding Comedy•Modern Family•30 Rock
•Curb Your Enthusiasm
•Glee
•Nurse Jackie
•The Office
Outstanding Actor in a Drama•Bryan Cranston ("Breaking Bad")•Hugh Laurie ("House M.D.")
•Jon Hamm ("Mad Men")
•Kyle Chandler ("Friday Night Lights")
•Matthew Fox ("Lost")
•Michael C. Hall ("Dexter")
Outstanding Actress in a Drama•Kyra Sedgwick ("The Closer")•Connie Britton ("Friday Night Lights")
•Glenn Close ("Damages")
•January Jones ("Mad Men")
•Julianna Margulies ("The Good Wife")
•Mariska Hargitay ("Law & Order: Special Victims Unit")
Outstanding Actor in a Comedy•Jim Parsons ("The Big Bang Theory")•Alec Baldwin ("30 Rock")
•Larry David ("Curb Your Enthusiasm")
•Matthew Morrison ("Glee")
•Steve Carell ("The Office")
•Tony Shalhoub ("Monk")
Outstanding Actress in a Comedy•Edie Falco ("Nurse Jackie")•Amy Poehler ("Parks and Recreation")
•Julia Louis-Dreyfus ("The New Adventures of Old Christine")
•Lea Michele ("Glee")
•Tina Fey ("30 Rock")
•Toni Collette ("The United States of Tara")
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama•Aaron Paul ("Breaking Bad")•Andre Braugher ("Men of a Certain Age")
•John Slattery ("Mad Men")
•Martin Short ("Damages")
•Michael Emerson ("Lost")
•Terry O'Quinn ("Lost")
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama•Archie Panjabi ("The Good Wife")•Christine Baranski ("The Good Wife")
•Christina Hendricks ("Mad Men")
•Elisabeth Moss ("Mad Men")
•Rose Byrne ("Damages")
•Sharon Gless ("Burn Notice")
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy•Eric Stonestreet ("Modern Family")•Chris Colfer ("Glee")
•Jesse Tyler Ferguson ("Modern Family")
•Jon Cryer ("Two and a Half Men")
•Neil Patrick Harris ("How I Met Your Mother")
•Ty Burrell ("Modern Family")
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy•Jane Lynch ("Glee")•Holland Taylor ("Two and a Half Men")
•Jane Krakowski ("30 Rock")
•Julie Bowen ("Modern Family")
•Kristen Wiig ("Saturday Night Live")
•Sofia Vergara ("Modern Family")
Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series•The Daily Show With Jon Stewart•The Colbert Report
•Real Time With Bill Maher
•Saturday Night Live
•The Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien
Outstanding Reality Show Competition•Top Chef•Project Runway
•The Amazing Race
•Dancing with the Stars
•American Idol
Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality Competition Program•Jeff Probst ("Survivor")•Phil Keoghan ("The Amazing Race")
•Ryan Seacrest ("American Idol")
•Tom Bergeron ("Dancing with the Stars")
•Heidi Klum ("Project Runway")
Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series•Steve Shill ("Dexter) - "The Getaway"•Michelle MacLaren ("Breaking Bad") - "One Minute"
•Jack Bender ("Lost") - "The End"
•Leslie Linka Glatter ("Mad Men" -" Guy Walks Into An Advertising Agency"
•Agnieszka Holland ("Treme") - "Do You Know What It means" (Pilot)
Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series•Matthew Weiner and Erin Levy ("Mad Men") - "Shut the Door"•Rolin Jones ("Friday Night Lights") - "The Son"
•Michelle King and Robert King ("The Good Wife") (Pilot)
•Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse ("Lost") - "The End"
•Robin Veith and Matthew Weiner ("Mad Men") - "Guy Walks Into Advertising Agency"
Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series•Ryan Murphy ("Glee") - "Director's Cut (Pilot)"•Paris Barclay ("Glee") - "Wheels"
•Jason Winer ("Modern Family") (Pilot)
•Allen Coulter ("Nurse Jackie") (Pilot)
•Don Scardino ("30 Rock") - "I Do Do"
Outstanding Writing for a Comedy•Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd ("Modern Family") (Pilot)•Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Ian Brennan ("Glee") - "Director's Cut (Pilot)"
•Greg Daniels and Mindy Kaling ("The Office") - "Nicaragua"
•Matt Hubbard ("30 Rock") - "Anna Howard Shaw Day"
•Tina Fey and Kay Cannon ("30 Rock") - "Lee Marvin Vs. Derek Jeter"
Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special•The 63rd Annual Tony Awards•The 82nd Annual Academy Awards
•Bill Maher... But I'm Not Wrong
•The Kennedy Center Honors
•Wanda Sykes: I'ma Be Me
Outstanding Directing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special•Bucky Gunts ("Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony""•Ron de Moraes ("In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music From the Civil Rights Movement")
•Louis J. Horvitz ("The Kennedy Center Honors")
•Glenn Weiss ("The 63rd Annual Tony Awards")
•Joel Gallen ("The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert""
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie•Julia Ormond ("Temple Grandin")•Kathy Bates ("Alice")
•Catherine O'Hara ("Temple Grandin")
•Brenda Vaccaro ("You Don't Know Jack")
•Susan Sarandon ("You Don't Know Jack")
Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie•David Strathairn ("Temple Grandin")•Michael Gambon ("Emma")
•Patrick Stewart ("Hamlet")
•Jonathan Pryce ("Return To Cranford")
•John Goodman ("You Don't Know Jack")
Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special•Adam Mazer ("You Don't Know Jack")•Michelle Ashford and Robert Schenkkan ("The Pacific") - "Part Eight"
•Bruce C. McKenna and Robert Schenkkan ("The Pacific") - "Part Ten"
•Peter Morgan ("The Special Relationship")
•Christopher Monger and William Merritt Johnson ("Temple Grandin")
Actress in a Miniseries or Movie•Claire Danes ("Temple Grandin")•Maggie Smith ("Capturing Mary")
•Joan Allen ("Georgia O'Keeffe")
•Dame Judi Dench ("Return To Cranford")
•Hope Davis ("The Special Relationship")
Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special•Mick Jackson ("Temple Grandin")•Bob Balaban ("Georgia O'Keeffe")
•David Nutter and Jeremy Podeswa ("The Pacific") - "Part Eight"
•Tim Van Patten ("The Pacific") - "Part Nine"
•Barry Levinson ("You Don't Know Jack")
Actor in a Miniseries or Movie•Al Pacino ("You Don't Know Jack")•Jeff Bridges ("A Dog Year")
•Ian McKellen ("The Prisoner")
•Michael Sheen ("The Special Relationship")
•Dennis Quaid ("The Special Relationship")
Outstanding Miniseries•The Pacific•Return to Cranford (Masterpiece)
Made for Television Movie•Temple Grandin•Endgame
•Georgia O'Keeffe
•Moonshot
•The Special Relationship
•You Don't Know Jack
Outstanding Reality Program•Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution•Antiques Roadshow
•Dirty Jobs
•Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
•MythBusters
•Undercover Boss
Outstanding Nonfiction Series•The National Parks: America's Best Idea•American Experience
•American Masters
•Deadliest Catch
•LIFE
•Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)
Outstanding Animated Program•Disney Prep & Landing•Alien Earths
•The Ricky Gervais Show
•The Simpsons
•South Park
Outstanding Children's Program•Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie•Hannah Montana
•iCarly
•Jonas
•Wizards of Waverly Place
Ever so often, the movies come up with a film so unusual, so bizarrely hilarious and confidently itself, that you are willing to forgive it's flaws. And after a drought season of horrible horrible movies, A Town Called Panic was a breath of fresh air.
How the filmmakers were able to make this movie only with a collection of plastic toys so enjoyable to watch and painstakingly funny is beyond me. Panic was made on a zero budget mind you, and it looks fantastic. 
Panic is a Belgian film that takes place in a small village and centers around three housemates, Horse, Indian and Cowboy. It's Horse's birthday and Indian and cowboy come up with a brilliant plan to give him a homemade barbecue but the plan backfires when they mistakenly order 50 million bricks which destroys their home. This sets off a chain of really weird events ranging from masochistic scientists to dishonest merpeople to a snowball launching penguin and a surprisingly durable tractor.
And while I really do love Panic for it's wackiness, there is no denying that this film is dumb as hell. If a 10 year old girl with attention deficiency had a camera and some plastic toys and she started making stop-motion with them, that's pretty much how this film would have turned out. A Town Called Panic simply revels in it's simplicity and makes no apologies for it's whimsically absurd method of storytelling.
The film is only 1 hour 15 minutes long, but hell do they do lotso crazy shit with it. And thank God it's only that short, because the film keeps you spinning in a sense of mismatched manic from start to finish that fatigue does start to set in pass the hour mark. But there was not a moment in the film where I thought, "Now that's just dumb."
And though some have complained that the stop-motion animation of Panic is incredibly lazy, I for one disagree. Sure, it is much more boldly artificial and crude compared to stop-motion gems like Fantastic Mr. Fox and Wallace & Gromit, I think the filmmakers did it intentionally to make the movements of the characters closely resemble the movements of toys in a child's hand during playtime. A Town Called Panic could easily have been one of our childhood bizzarro fantasy stories we played around with our toys.
And I gotta give props to the voice actors of the film. Stéphane Aubier and Bruce Ellison in particular who voiced Cowboy and Indian. Now the film is in French and I have no idea what the fuck they're saying. However, Aubier and Ellison's comic timing and impeccable silly voices really didn't need a translation to have me bawling over in laughter.
A Town Called Panic is yet another rare gem, a film that will never get the recognition it deserves. But for the few people who do get the honor of watching the film, will be sitting slack-jawed at how wacky this little film is. 
