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Sometimes a WTF moment is so jaw-droppingly WTFish that you have to stop, back up a step or two, cock your head like a mystified puppy getting its first look at the most awesomely balliest ball ever — like you can’t believe how perfectly inexplicable the excellence of its roundness and the fineness of its … more…
It’s sort of beautiful, in its way. Like how a mushroom cloud is beautiful. Harry Knowles, commenting on rumors about something to do with whatever the hell is going on with Spider-Man these days and who the hell is gonna direct The Hobbit anyway actually has the nerve to chastise Variety for reporting speculation in … more…
Whatever issues you may have with Rotten Tomatoes — and lots of people see lots of problems in the site in particular and in the larger notion that something as idiosyncratic as 150 film reviews can be boiled down and compressed into one metric — it’s surely easy to admit that at least some people … more…
Sex and the City 2 is doing remarkably well at the U.K. box office, handily retaining the No. 1 spot this past weekend and overall doing about twice as well, comparatively speaking, as it is performing in North America. As Charles Gant at the Guardian’s Film blog notes: After two weekends in the US, it … more…
Oh, how depressing! In his essay on Ashton Kutcher as the new Clark Gable (the subject of today’s Question of the Day), Salon’s Andrew O’Hehir refers to Katherine Heigl’s character in Killers as a “sweetie pie.” Sweetie pie? Really? Sweetie pie? This is a thirtysomething woman who allows herself to be berated by her parents … more…
First there was the guy who thinks film critics are “high society.” And now there’s Zennie Abraham, who believes that the reason that reviews of Iron Man 2 aren’t more glowing than they are is because, well, just read it and boggle: Iron Man 2 and Scarlett Johansson were awesome! This blogger has no idea … more…
Does everyone entertain such misconceptions about film critics as Jamie Dexter at TheLeafChronicle.com? His defense of the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street is headlined: Don’t heed the high-paid critics, ‘Nightmare’ is terrifyingly good And then it goes on: If it’s a remake or a horror film, critics are going to hate it. And … more…
For the last six months or so, I realize as I look back, I’ve been in some sort of larval state as I try to figure out how I can make at least some of what I’ve been doing here since 1997 continue to work in an environment in which, we’re told, film criticism is … more…
…for a 2010 National Entertainment Journalism Award, given by the Los Angeles Press Club. How’s that for Notability? The finalists were announced a month ago, and I only just accidentally stumbled across this news this morning. I’m a finalist in the Online Critic category. My fellow nominees are: Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor Tom Tangney, … more…
…to discover that I’ve been deleted from Wikipedia. The editors’ objections would also seem to apply to James Berardinelli and The Filthy Critic. I wonder why they get to stay and I get the boot… Oh, I get it: I’ve never been mentioned by Roger Ebert. And I don’t rate movies by extending my middle … more…
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