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GordonandtheWhale.com is shutting down; who’s next?

Wed, Jul 27, 2011
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I’ve been prepping a post for several days about what the current state of film criticism means for the future, and in the meantime, one of the things I was going to predict has already come to pass…

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press release of the week: “Digital movie delivery is a deceit,” says Facets

Sun, Jul 17, 2011
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Gotta love it. While everyone is talking about streaming, Facets is proudly old-school…

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the cruelest comment ever posted on the Internet

Sat, Jul 16, 2011
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I know, I know: There’s been a lot of mean, heartless shit posted by trolls and assholes on the Web, but I really do think we have a winner here…

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question of the day: What actors have you been surprised to discover were a different nationality than you’d believed?

Thu, Jul 07, 2011
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BBC America’s Secretly British is tongue in cheek, of course: no one is actually hiding their nationality. But sometimes we’re surprised anyway…

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wtf: AOL is still in the dialup business?

Sun, Jun 26, 2011
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I feel like I’ve just discovered that folk are still using buttonhooks to secure their shoes to their feet.

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deep thought (re ‘X-Men’)

Fri, Jun 03, 2011
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Someone at Fox could be doing something really clever with mutantwatch.com right about now…

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I’m loving LoveFilm

Fri, May 27, 2011
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I’m tickled to discover how many great films are being added all the time to Lovefilm’s streaming service, like these new classics…

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Demand Media’s scam is an insult to our culture

Fri, May 06, 2011
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Demand has made an absolute bloody fortune flooding the Web and spamming search engines with total crap. And now they’re all, “Oh, hey, we know our stuff sucks. Sorry!”

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wait, what? Warner Bros. now owns Rotten Tomatoes

Wed, May 04, 2011
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Net content is getting more and more consolidated into corporate hands. This cannot be a good thing…

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AOL/HuffPo shoots the messenger, fires Moviefone editor Patricia Chui over work-for-free email

Thu, Apr 07, 2011
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And the AOL/HuffPo Cinematical fiasco comes full circle in the only way it could have: with a scapegoating…

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