I eavesdrop on the pitch meeting for ‘G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra’
Over at Film.com. Enjoy.
maryann buzz
DeepDiscount.com phone spam
UPDATE: I got a response from DeepDiscount to the complaint I sent them directly about the robocall. In the email, I was polite but angry, and I ended by informing them that they’d lost me as a customer. This is DeepDiscount’s response, in its entirety: Thank you for contacting DeepDiscount.com! Per you request, we have … more…
this is what I have to deal with on a regular basis
Just got this email from a charming gentleman: Subject: You’re a first rate cunt I gotta guess you didn’t like this movie. Also what world did you grow up in and where is that world . I guess you hate men and if they are white even more. I guess you were pissed and drunk … more…
there’s gonna be girls at Comic Con…
…women critics are obviously stupid bitches, female media power comes from TV palhood, and more. Yup, it’s another go-round of The Week in Women, my regular column over at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Enjoy.
site was down half the afternoon
Yes, FlickFilosopher.com was offline for several hours this afternoon. The server my site was on crashed because my site, among others, were hogging the CPU. Now, I had no idea that Movable Type was a CPU hog (my large database apparently also contributes to the hoggage), but my Web host moved me (and the other … more…
yes, girls like movies too…
…the secrets of female reinvention, and why Bruno is feminist… It’s an all-new installment of “The Week in Women,” my regular column over at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Enjoy.
no Shakespeare in the Park for me
If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, then you may have followed my mini saga this morning as I attempted to get a pair of free tickets to tonight’s performance of Twelfth Night, starring Anne Hathaway, at the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park. She’s been getting spectacular reviews, which is nice, but that’s … more…
sixty-seven cents on the dollar would be an improvement…
…misogynist vampire stories suck, Tilda Swinton takes the cinematic highroad, and more. It’s The Week in Women, my regular doings over at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Enjoy, and for all my readers in the U.S., happy Fourth of July. To everyone else, happy Saturday.
I love my new Roku
That’s the little settop box that lets you stream stuff from Netflix and Amazon Unbox. I’m streaming old episodes of All Creatures Great and Small from Netflix as we speak. Oh my god, Peter Davison was adorable when he was 12…
deep thought
I’m really tired of talking about Transformers and Michael Bay…
