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Sci Fi Wire ran a piece recently about “the secret code names of 37 sci-fi blockbuster films” — which sounds cooler than it actually is. I thought it would be about the original titles for great films that we now love, and hey, wouldn’t it be funny/silly/stupid if we couldn’t stop talking about that classic … 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…
I’ve been feeling very, very depressed lately about the prospects of ever making anything like a reasonable living at this film criticism game. And this shocking news did not help: On Monday, Variety, the legendary Hollywood trade publication, laid off its chief film critic, Todd McCarthy. Editor Tim Gray, in a memo to Variety staffers, … 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…
Okay, time for the postmortem. Did any award surprise you? (Nominees and winners here.) Who gave the best speech? (It was Sandra Bullock, wasn’t it?) Which movie do you feel like you really have to see now? What was the funniest moment of the ceremony? (Tina Fey and Robert Downey Jr. on writers, I think.) … more…
…Crazy Interrupting French Lady Follies. Discuss.
…that Steve Martin has already Godwin’d the Oscars with his Meryl Streep-loves-Nazis joke. Open thread for the first hour or so of the Oscars…
…boxers by Hanes and a t-shirt by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Consider this your Oscars red carpet open thread. 7:30PM: It just occurred to me that until women’s eveningwear is as subdued as a man’s tuxedo, women will never be allowed to talk about just their work on the red carpet. Conversely, until men start … more…
The current issue of Archaeology magazine has a fascinating article revealing that scientists are very close to sequencing the DNA of a Neanderthal woman who died in what is now Croatia 30,000 years ago. And then: The ability to use the genes of extinct hominins is going to force the field of paleoanthropology into some … more…
Recently the members of the Online Film Critics Society discussed what technical race — that is, editing, production design, on so on — we follow with the most interest and which films we would have nominated. The critics’ responses are here. Now it’s your turn: Which technical Oscar category interests you most? Mine is probably … more…
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