question of the day: How honest must nature documentaries be?
The BBC misled viewers about how it obtained footage of polar bear cubs in their den. Is such trickery acceptable if it helps tell a story?
talk amongst yourselves
question of the day: What is the magic equation to gets people to go to the movies… or to stay away?
Or, why we probably shouldn’t be too excited that New Year’s Eve flopped…
question of the day: Should advertising on television be more regulated?
Right-wing Christians complain that a TV show about Muslims is too nice to them, and gets an advertiser to pull its ads. All hell breaks loose…
question of the weekend: Do we diminish terrible events when we turn them into funny Internet memes?
Most of the riffs on the UC Davis pepper-spraying are satirical: the cop has been Photoshopped pepper-spraying fallen colonial soldiers of the American Revolution, little children listening to Jesus, and so on. But not all are so pointed…
question of the day: Why are you interested in film?
It’s so glaringly obvious as something that needs to be discussed, and I don’t think we ever have here before. It’s clearly to be taken as a given that anyone reading this site is interested in film as a way of telling stories and as an entertainment, but why?
question of the day: What disaster — natural or manmade, or a combination of the two — would you like to see depicted on film?
Surely something called the Boston Molasses Disaster is begging for the Coen Brothers’ treatment, no?
question of the day: Would you patronize a cinema that offered “tweet seats”?
Apparently some stage and musical theaters in the U.S. have been offering special seats for tweeters for several years now. Can there be any doubt that “tweet seats” are coming to cinemas soon?
question of the day: Why aren’t there more professional female characters in movies?
Who was the last really notable professional woman you can recall in a movie?
question of the day: Can the year-end awards-baiting movie madness ever be changed (even if David Denby can’t make it happen himself)?
It’s probably not helping that even venerable institutions such as the New York Film Critics Circle and The New Yorker are now engaging in ridiculous fanboy First! shenanigans.
question of the weekend: Are emoticons and other nontextual forms of communication changing the way we interact?
Has access to a cheap camera in your phone and easy ways to send such information around and share it with the world changed how you communicate?
