question of the day: Is J.J. Abrams being a troll when he says, “If you’re so smart, you come up with a better ending for ‘Lost’”?
Seems to me that Abrams is engaging in one of the classic gambits of the Internet troll…
talk amongst yourselves
question of the weekend: What would be some awesome evidence that homo sapiens and planet Earth had been intelligently designed?
We might have two livers as well as two kidneys and two lungs. There might be no plants or animals that are poisonous to us. What else?
question of the day: What do you dread most about Brett Ratner’s upcoming Oscars ceremony?
The homophobia? The racism? The sexism? The fact that he may just blow up the auditorium in a fit of impotent childish rage?
question of the day: What are the best insignificant details you’ve seen in a movie?
If “god is in the details” then isn’t great moviemaking also in the details?
question of the day: Which era would you like to see as a setting for a nostalgic soap opera or drama (à la ‘Mad Men’)?
NBC has The Playboy Club, ABC has Pan Am, both set in the 60s. The BBC is a tad more adventurous: its The Hour is set in 1956. Couldn’t we look farther afield, temporally speaking?
question of the day: Why does Hollywood underestimate how well kids’ movies will do at the box office?
Smurfs earned 50 percent more at the box office than it was expected to. Why?
question of the day: Does ‘Captain America’ blackwash history?
Black soldiers did not fight alongside white soldiers in the U.S. Army in World War II. But you wouldn’t know that by looking at Captain America: The First Avenger…
question of the weekend: What do you want on your tombstone?
It’s a simple enough question, but it gets thornier the more you think about it…
question of the day: What are the makings of a great science fiction hero?
SFX magazine recently conducted a poll to determine the Top 10 Sci-fi Icons Of All Time, and the just-published results are a tad surprising…
question of the day: Is talking, snarking, cheering, booing, or otherwise reacting out loud to a movie ever appropriate?
Do you prefer to watch movies in a completely distraction-free environment, or are you open to people vocally enjoying the energy of the film in question?
