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I don’t know why it took this long, but yesterday, the Guardian published “A nobody’s guide to the Oscars,” by Neil Gaiman. He was present at that august event because he wrote the source material for Coraline, which was nominated for Best Animated Feature: I had also written a 15-second sequence for the Oscars, in … more…
The other day, Kevin Smith let loose on his Twitter feed about how much he hates the “nasty bloodsport” and “AnimalFarm bullshit” of film criticism in the age of the Internet. All because most of my fellow critics hated Cop Out with a passion. In my case, it’s the kind of passion reserved for those … more…
Radio idiot Howard Stern engaged in some vile fatbashing of Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe the other day — I won’t repeat it, but you can listen here, if you must — the upshot of which is that she’s kidding herself in thinking she’s ever gonna get another role after Precious. She already has gotten more … more…
The Hollywood Reporter revealed, in the wake of the Oscar tribute to John Hughes on Sunday night, that there exists, in that ghostly nethworld of Unproduced Scripts, one last story from the filmmaker waiting for its moment on the screen… or not. The script, titled Grisbys Go Broke, is apparently about “a wealthy Chicago family … more…
From the same MTV article whence came the Kevin Smith quote that formed the core of yesterday’s QOTD about the Southewest Airlines debacle comes a completely unrelated quote from the filmmaker that struck me. About his latest movie, Smith says: “[‘Cop Out’] has nothing to say itself; it’s a popcorn movie,” he explained. “Let me … more…
Of course we’ve all been hearing about Kevin Smith’s misadventures with Southwest Airlines, but I wasn’t sure that there was much to say about it beyond what Smith has already said. In my leftover links this past weekend, I pointed you to Smith’s own account of the affair, in which he explains why he’s so … more…
Gabourey Sidibe, who’s been nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Precious, wants Justin Timberlake to be her date for the upcoming awards ceremony, according to People magazine: “I want to make Justin Timberlake and [The Hurt Locker actor] Anthony Mackie fight it out for the honor of being my date,” Sidibe … more…
(Sometimes related to entertainment. Sometimes not. Always stupid.) Okay, so the Tim Tebow anti-abortion Super Bowl ad — which had a lot of people raging mad over CBS’s hypocrisy regarding which ads it accepted for the game, and which it didn’t — has garnered quite a bit of intriguing response. Like these glorious tweets from … more…
I’d been trying to figure out what there was to say about the recent death of film editor Karen Schmeer, and then I found it (starting at The New York Times): What began with a report of three men shoplifting over-the-counter drugs from a CVS on the Upper West Side has ended with an arrest … more…
It’s probably not even true, and you certainly didn’t hear it here, but it’s entirely possible that somewhere over the rainbow, way up high, there exists a script for a Doctor Who episode potentially written by Neil Gaiman. And if you open the box and the cat isn’t dead, that story might be entitled “The … more…
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