question of the day: If you could turn any — yes, *any* — book into a movie or TV show, what would it be?
The Joy of Sex? Jane’s Fighting Ships? Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management?
talk amongst yourselves
question of the day: What movies succeed entirely on the basis of casting and performances alone?
Since the question from prompted by a stage performance, feel free to include theater if you want. TV, too… though I suspect that as a longer form of storytelling, TV can’t ever cut it on actors alone.
question of the day: What’s your favorite or most powerful memory of a communal moviegoing experience?
If you’ve seen Rise of the Planet of the Apes, you may have experienced a phenomenon that’s been reported by many moviegoers this summer, of one particular moment causing the entire crowd to gasp in stunned shock…
question of the weekend: Why are people terrified of creative ideas?
A fascinating and distressing article at science news site Physorg.com yesterday reported on a study that people are biased against creative ideas. Even relatively innocuous ones…
question of the day: Are “slave Leias” and other “sexy” geek costumes feminist and empowering, demeaning and sexist, or something in between?
Inspired by “‘Geek girls’ and the problem of self-objectification” by Courtney Stoker at GeekFeminist.org…
question of the day: What actor(s) would you bring forward or send backward in time so they could work with stars of other eras?
Which noncontemporaries would you pair them with, and what kind of movie would they make?
question of the day: What would you name a fictional spaceship?
No-budget indie LVJ, now in production, wants you to name its fleet of space fighter planes. But this QOTD stretches as far as your science fiction imagination can take you…
question of the day: Why has the depiction of suicide in movies tripled over the past half century?
Is it just that violence overall has increased in movies since 1950? Have we become a more despairing society since then? Is there something else at work?
question of the day: What’s the next “interactive” gimmick Hollywood will come up with… or revive from the past?
Scratch-and-sniff is back with Spy Kids 4. What’s next?
question of the weekend: What is the most unforgivable fashion faux pas?
Brown business suits? White after Labor Day? Socks with sandals?
