retro trailer: ‘Some Like It Hot’
Tony Curtis: just one of the many famous names we lost this week. A handsome man. But an ugly woman.
‘Harry Potter’ beats up ‘Star Wars’; Michael Caine, psychic author; TV getting gayer; more: leftover links
Plus: the deaths of Stephen J. Cannell, Sally Menke, Gloria Stuart, and Tony Curtis; Armond White is at it again (and so are his adversaries); Chris Noth thinks critics killed Sex and the City; and on and on…
question of the weekend: Have you ever witnessed a crime?
The closest I’ve come is the one New Year’s Eve many years ago when I was traveling home very late — around 3am — on the subway and saw a man who had been screaming abuse at a woman who appeared to be his wife or girlfriend. And I interferred, like the idiot I am…
Friday night fortune cookie: Craig Schwartz says…
“Consciousness is a terrible curse.”
last chance to get in on goodie giveaways for subscribers
One last push: I’ve got piles of stuff to give away to subscribers — new DVDs, vintage CDs, geek paraphernalia — and the cutoff for getting in on snagging one of those goodies is Monday, October 4, 11:59pm Eastern time. So if you’ve been putting off subscribing, please do so now.
The Social Network movie review: unfriend
The Social Network isn’t overly concerned with the obvious irony: ha ha, an antisocial nerd invented the most popular social-networking Web site on the planet. As Fincher frames it, Zuckerberg’s loneliness is hardly ironic. It is, in fact, inherent in the mindset that got him to where he is…
wtf: mainstream journalism is even more of a mess than we thought
I knew things were bad with the state of journalism — or as I like to call it, journalmalism — but this is almost a perfect storm of WTF-ness in this arena. Because remember James O’Keefe? He’s back…
Freakonomics (review)
There’s an appealing sort of crazy, on the surface, to Freakonomics — the theory, the book, and now the documentary. But it seems for all the world as if Freakonomics the movie is mocking Freakonomics the theory. Did they mean to do that?
screencap Friday: what the flick? #143 — now with prizes!
Friday fun! Here’s a screen capture from a TV show on DVD. Guess the TV show — you don’t need to guess the episode, just the show. And if you assume it’s something I’ve said I’m watching or said I like, you’re not necessarily on the right track.
about the new magazine-style home page
I hope you like the revamped FlickFilosopher.com home page. I know that dramatic change like this can be traumatic — I’m getting stressed out dealing with the Internet Movie Database’s reorganization and redesign, but I can appreciate that the changes there are for the better and that I will get used to them in time. I think you’ll agree that the same applies here.
