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If you’re in Canada — or have reason to buy stuff from Canada — and you shop at Chapters/Indigo, I’d appreciate it if you would click through from FlickFilosopher.com when shopping…
Year: 2011
Haywire (trailer)
Fassbender!
question of the day: What makes a movie star a movie star, and has this changed over the Hollywood century?
Dave Beauchene at PopTometry suggests that movie stars should only be movie stars if there can be unanimous agreement on their objectively superior talent. What’s more, this was once true, and has been lost. I couldn’t disagree more.
London photo of the day: would the guest who left their gene sequences in the lobby please come get them?
Artwork on a wall at the Soho Hotel.
kiss up to the powerful in exchange for positive coverage: your mainstream media at work (aka Rupert Murdoch is an evil toad)
I’m not even surprised by the fact that Rupert Murdoch would bully a teenager into working for him for free in exchange for positive coverage (which his outlets then failed to offer)…
watch it: “Vampire’s Crown”
Fear of the dentist takes on a whole new aspect.
Doctor Who thing of the day: the ‘Guardian’s 1963 review of the first two episodes
Critic Mary Crozier was less than impressed…
Sleeping Beauty (review)
I despair at the feature debut of screenwriter and director Julia Leigh: she celebrates a notion that any woman filmmaker should be kicking in the nuts…
The Sitter (redband trailer)
I didn’t know what The Sitter was about, so I watched the trailer, and now I’m sorry I did…
question of the day: Is it fair to be upset that Jennifer Lopez’s new Fiat ad was not shot in the Bronx?
Advertising works on at least the veneer of truth and plausibility. Is the real issue here that this ad strips away the polite fiction that ads tell the truth?
