question of the day: On October 30, will you attend Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity or Stephen Colbert’s March to Keep Fear Alive?
As Colbert often says, We’re at war: pick a side. I hope the DC police are ready for this.
talk amongst yourselves
question of the day: Can Roger Ebert’s new ‘At the Movies’ survive in the current TV environment?
Roger Ebert announced earlier this week that he will be producing a new version of At the Movies, the PBS and later syndicated film criticism series he and Gene Siskel pioneered in the 1970s…
question of the day: Why do I smell such an ominous vibe coming off NBC’s ‘The Event’?
All I can think about is M. Night Shyamalan’s risible The Happening, and poor Alan Ruck having to deliver one of the most awful lines of dialogue in the history of movies: ‘There appears to be an event occurring.’
question of the day: Is atheism standing in the way of an Emmy for Bill Maher?
Bill Maher is now the losingest Emmy nominee ever. Is there a nefarious reason why?
question of the day: What actresses should play Shakespeare’s great male characters?
Woo-hoo! Helen Mirren is going to play Prospero — the wizard has been redubbed Prospera — for a new film adaptation of The Tempest from director Julie Taymor…
question of the weekend: Where are our heroes?
It seems like the only public ‘heroes’ we have these days are celebrities and athletes. Where are the people doing truly significant things?
question of the day: Is hearing news and reviews from film festivals torture for you, too?
Sheesh, you could do a solid two solid months of film-festivaling, traveling from Venice to Toronto to New York to London for these carnivals of cinemania, an odyssey that sounds to me as wonderful as it does exhausting.
question of the day: The most-coveted U.S. TV viewers are turning to Univision: will we see more shows with Hispanic appeal on English-language TV?
Will we soon see a primetime English-language telenovela on ABC, NBC, CBS, or Fox?
question of the day: Why are we no longer able to trust that a documentary is authentic?
Catfish and I’m Still Here haven’t even opened yet, and already the filmmakers are having to defend their authenticity.
question of the day: What actors will you watch in anything?
I wonder whether the big draw of *The American* was George Clooney. Are there more folks out there who, like me, would watch Clooney in absolutely anything?
