question of the day: What was the best movie you saw in 2010?
And by that I mean “what new theatrical release for 2010 was the best one you saw”? And why? What made it the best?
talk amongst yourselves
question of the day: What was the most underrated or underappreciated movie of 2010?
Mine must be Agora, which my fellow critics ignored and audiences never had a chance to find…
question of the day: What was the most unforgettable movie moment 2010?
Easy question… until you start to think about it…
question of the day: Is what Wikileaks does journalism?
Sorry if it seems I’m obsessed with Julian Assange and Wikileaks, but I do think this may well be the most important issue of the moment, because what happens as a result of it will impact how our society will discuss everything else: either entirely freely, or fettered by corporate and governmental constraints…
question of the day: What movie are you ashamed to admit you’ve never seen?
I keep putting off posting this question because I’m so embarrassed to answer it myself, but it’s time to bite the bullet…
question of the holiday: Do you have rituals or traditions for the day after Christmas, or the week between Christmas and New Year’s?
Happy Boxing Day! If you live somewhere where people actually say that to one another, you might have find yourself under a customary or prescribed pattern of behavior for today: places to go, people to see, pubs to sit in, and so on. The rest of us, not so much…
question of the day: What actor who hasn’t already done so should play Santa Claus?
I’m gonna do a gender switch and say that Dawn French would be a fantastic Santa…
question of the day: What actor who hasn’t already done so should play Ebenezer Scrooge?
I bet Morgan Freeman would be awesome as Scrooge…
question of the day: What’s the worst movie you’ve ever seen?
I’m talking real, down-to-earth, honest-to-awfulness, worst movie you’ve ever seen. Not the movie that’s so bad it’s great. Not a guilty pleasure you acknowledge is terrible but you have a sneaking fondness for anyway. Nope: I want you to dredge up the most excruciating memory of a movie-watching experience you can manage without blowing out a cranial artery.
question of the day: Is it better to be pirated than to be forgotten?
Fan “pirates” out-of-print comic, and creator heartily approves. Can Hollywood learn a lesson from this?
