question of the day: What movie are you most looking forward to in Autumn 2011?
Okay, this is it. Summer is over. Back to school. Back to work. Put on a sweater and get serious.
talk amongst yourselves
question of the weekend: How are you dealing with — or avoiding — the 9/11 anniversary?
In a way I’m glad I’m not in New York this week: the 9/11 remembrances and retrospectives have been painful enough on this side of the Atlantic, and I can only imagine that the looking-back is even more intense in the city where some of the events of that day happened.
question of the day: What’s your favorite time and day of the week to go to the cinema?
Obviously Friday and Saturday nights are the biggies, but is that when you prefer to go? Perhap you enjoy going to the movies when it’s not as crowded or hectic. Or maybe you have no preference at all, and will take in a flick whenever and wherever you can.
question of the day: What do you think of Eddie Murphy as an Oscar host?
There’s a long tradition of comedians and comic actors hosting the Oscars. But can Murphy pull it off?
question of the day: What is the appeal of ‘The Inbetweeners’?
I thought I was safe avoiding The Inbetweeners Movie. It’s based on a TV show I’ve never seen, it wasn’t screened for critics, and it looks awful. But now it’s a veritable phenomenon at the U.K. box office…
question of the day: Is there anything wrong with Chaz Bono appearing on ‘Dancing With the Stars’?
I mean, apart from the general idiocy of has-beens, never-weres, and Z-list celebs hoofing it on a bread-and-circuses variety show?
question of the day: What movies say “autumn” to you?
We have “summer movies” set on beaches, and “winter movies” set in the snow. But do we have “autumn movies”? Is it more than merely glimpses of trees with turning leaves? What makes a movie fall-like?
question of the weekend: Will marijuana ever be truly decriminalized?
The barriers to decriminalizing marijuana are many, and those mostly appear to have to do with money. There’s a lot of it to be made selling beer and wine to folks… and there’s a lot of money to be made in the “War on Drugs,” too.
question of the day: Are there any nonreality celebrities you’d actually want to see in their own reality show?
Like how Mark Wahlberg is opening Wahlburgers restaurant in Boston and wants to shoot a reality show there…
question of the day: How much can George Lucas alter ‘Star Wars’ before it’s no longer ‘Star Wars’?
I think we can agree that Star Wars is Lucas’s property to do whatever he wants with. But there must come a point at which Star Wars no longer feels like something the fans want to embrace.
