question of the day: What actor’s voice — male or female — gives you chills?
For me, Alan Rickman might be at the top of that list…
talk amongst yourselves
question of the day: What actor could most use the Coen Brothers as a director?
There are lots of actors whom I’d love to see work with the Coens, to see how their unique and hugely entertaining talents could be amplified by the brothers’ idiosyncratic perspective — James Franco, Amy Adams, Timothy Olyphant, Colin Firth, Steve Coogan, Maria Bello, and on and on — none of them really need that boost the Coens could give them. Unlike my top five candidates for Coen-ification…
question of the day: What are the best love stories for people who hate love stories?
Most of us — in our real, offscreen, noncinematic lives — do crave love and romance, and would appreciate seeing that reflected onscreen in emotionally realistic ways that actually represent how people approach relationships and romance. Unfortunately, most romantic movies are utterly asinine…
question of the day: Has a movie ever inspired you to want to write its sequel?
Obviously, we need to know the title(s) of the movie(s) that left you so wanting more than you at least thought about what a sequel could bring. But I think we’d also like to know what it was about the story or the characters that was both left open-ended enough that a sequel was warranted, and was good enough that you’d actually want to see more of it.
question of the day: Is social entertainment making us more passive?
Here I was thinking that the Internet and social media were making us all more active consumers of entertainment. Seems I might have been wrong…
question of the weekend: How much should we protect uncontacted tribes?
It’s hard to imagine that there are some people living so remotely on planet Earth that they’ve still had no contact with the rest of the world. But the BBC recently released this clip from an episode of its series Human Planet featuring footage of what is supposedly the last uncontacted community of people, in the Amazon…
question of the day: Has a movie ever changed your life?
It’s a question that’s simple to ask, but difficult to answer…
question of the day: What secondary or tertiary characters from literature deserve their own movie?
Or even if they don’t actually deserve it, you just want to see it…
question of the day: Why do Americans love the Super Bowl so much?
The numbers are in: 111 million Americans watched the Super Bowl on Sunday. What was in it for all of them?
question of the day: What movie soundtrack could be — or do you wish would be — the soundtrack of your life?
My perfect life soundtrack is actually a fantasy score: It’s the music the recently deceased John Barry wrote called “Moviola.” It’s what he imagined would be the perfect music for the perfect movie, full of epic sweep and passion…
