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I’ve been racking my brain for the last 12 hours, since I heard about the death of actress Brittany Murphy, for the best way to talk about her death, or, indeed, whether I should even mention her at all. Is there anything here worth talking about beyond the — let’s be honest — generic sorrow … more…
Here’s one reason why I’ve been so depressed this week: The Copenhagen climate summit has been a disaster since the beginning, and yesterday it ended in an “agreement” that is nothing more than mealy-mouthed bullshit that won’t do a damn thing to reign in CO2 emission and, at best, puts off any action for years. … more…
Peter Hartlaub at SFGate’s The Poop — a baby blog, not a movie blog — recently asked raised an intriguing possibility: [T]his may be the greatest year for animated feature films of all time. One could make make a strong argument for 1937 with the seminal “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” 1940 with “Pinocchio” … more…
As the first decade of the 21st century wraps itself up, the members of the Online Film Critics Society weighed in on which movies they felt best captured the feeling of the decade. Click over to the OFCS news blog for all the replies. Here’s mine as a teaser: It’s coming right at the end … more…
For all the ground that Avatar breaks, you’re gonna see a lot of familiar things there, too: space marines, the notion that anything could be valuable enough to be worth hauling out of a gravity well in huge quantities and transporting it across intersteller distances, the spy who goes native, and a lot more. You’ll … more…
What with football-themed The Blind Side doing gangbusters at the box office and the rugby-will-save-the-world-themed Invictus just opening, the members of the Online Film Critics Society recently picked our top 5 favorite sports movies. Raging Bull came out on top; go to the OFCS news blog for the rest of the top 5, and other … more…
James Cameron is the 12th highest-grossing director in film history, having earned $1.117 billion (and that’s just domestically) from just seven films. With Avatar, he is likely to surpass Chris Columbus, currently at No. 5… and if Avatar does Titanic business, he could catapult to the No. 3 spot, behind Robert Zemeckis and the king, … more…
A story on AlterNet this week ran down “The 6 Weirdest, Scariest Processed Foods,” and it is indeed a litany of horrors. It begins: Once upon a time, some brave scientists had a noble dream of ridding our food of the plague of nutrients. Today, at the start of the 21st century, the miracle of … more…
As you may have heard, James Franco is in the midst of a guest stint on the ABC soap General Hospital. You may be thinking something like, Well, an actor’s gotta work…, but Franco’s got bigger, more significant things in mind than a mere paycheck. He published a piece recently in The Wall Street Journal, … more…
Last week the members of the Online Film Critics Society were asked what primary rules we follow as critics — click through to read them. (Yes, we’re trying to build traffic there.) I’ll reveal my primary rule here, though: I always think, when I sit down to write a review, “How did this movie make … more…
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