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Have you seen True Grit? Have you noticed how it’s pretty much all about a 14-year-old girl? Have you noticed that not only is Hailee Steinfeld’s character the one who drives the story, but she also has at least as much screen time as Jeff Bridges, perhaps even more? So how the heck is she only a “supporting” actress?
We’re already seeing some impact from global warming that might seem surprising, such as cities going bankrupt from snow removal, lost productivity when workers cannot get to work, and disruptions to personal lives because of lost vacation time…
Meaning not Have their older films improved with age? but Have they improved as artists with age?
Kevin Smith? John Carpenter? They’re two potentials on my list at the moment…
Is “quality” now something that only a niche audience found on cable wants? What happened in less than 20 years, since the early 1990s, to so significantly alter the television landscape? And will things ever go back to the way they were?
PopWatch wonders whether you saw The Rite this weekend, and if it made you mad. (I wonder why anyone would expect anything at all from a January thriller, but that’s just me.) Which makes me think about the movies that have good cause to make us angry…
I’m certainly giving my Kindle a workout, and expect that I will read more classic novels this year than I have recently, because it’s so easy to find and download good e-versions of them… and because I’m feeling a little guilty about selling and giving away so many books…
Please don’t tell me that she’s going to be a dwarf who, halfway through Mirkwood, reveals she’s actually Thorin Oakenshield’s teenage daughter who disobeyed Dad when he told her she couldn’t come along on his quest…
I’ve been astonished when I’ve traveled outside the U.S. how easily ordinary, mainstream, comparatively unadventurous consumers of media are able to digest the output of cultures beyond their own. The majority Americans seem unable or unwilling to do that. But why?
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