“The Week in Women”
My second “The Week in Women” column is up at the site of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Enjoy.
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Barack Obama on DVD
Join me in welcoming our Barack Obama overlord today. Check out my review of the DVD President Barack Obama: The Man and His Journey: Collector’s Edition over at Film.com! It includes a collectible trading card! (Also with some mention of the DVD Senator Obama Goes to Africa.)
Online Film Critics Society 2008 awards
The Online Film Critics Society, of which I am a member, has named its awards for 2008. The winners: PICTURE: Wall-E DIRECTOR: Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight ACTOR: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler ACTRESS: Michelle Williams, Wendy and Lucy SUPPORTING ACTOR: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Wall-E, Andrew … more…
my new column: “The Week in Women”
I’ve just debuted a new weekly column over at the site of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists (of which I’m a member) called “The Week in Women.” It’ll take a look each Friday at some of the trials and tribulations of women in Hollywood — as well as some of the triumphs, too. The … more…
find more comments
The pace of commenting has picked up here so much lately that new comments are often scrolling out of that “recent comments” box on the main page in less than a day. I don’t want to make the box any bigger than it is, so instead I created a new page — right here and … more…
on ads and surveys
As I’ve mentioned before (though not in quite a while), I’ve avoided running pop-up or pop-under ads here at FlickFilosopher.com, because I find them extremely annoying, and I know others do too. But at the moment, and for about the next week or so, you may see a small pop-up when you leave the site … more…
‘Battlestar Galactica’: the final Cylon
The third of my four preview/speculations about the final ten episodes of Battlestar Galactica is up now at Film.com. Please comment over there, if you would (and if you can get past the registration problems the site still seems to be having). So few postings at Film.com seem to generate much conversation in comments, and … more…
Austenbook!
It’s not quite movie related, except for the several lovely film and TV adaptations, but… So wonderful! What if the characters of Pride and Prejudice had had access to Facebook? If might look something like this: (There’s much more, of course.) This clever parody/pastiche is by DeeDee Baldwin, and was inspired by Sarah Schmelling’s Hamlet … more…
deleting comments left and right
Oh, the fun I’m having, sending the idiots to the trash bin. I’ve deleted more comments in the last 24 hours than I have in the entire history of this site since it moved to the blog format. I don’t know what happened to make the traffic jump as it has, but I can only … more…
Happy New Year!
Taking a break from regular posting today. Normal programming will resume tomorrow… and I have some new regular features that will be debuting next week. All part of my plan to dominate the world with snarking.
