curated: industry site The Wrap goes full fanboy
A line has been crossed…
Armond White
Nintendo says no to Justin Bieber; Ricky Gervais won’t host Golden Globes again; Michel Gondry not a fan of 3D; more: leftover links
Plus: Kevin Smith was lying about how cool it was to direct Bruce Willis in Cop Out; CBS now stealing ideas from German TV; Joan Rivers gets kicked off Fox for bitching about Sarah Palin; more…
Armond White makes Annette Bening cry; Fight Club: The Musical?; Wal-Mart woos NYC with ad campaign; more: leftover links
Plus: Will Natalie Portman’s pregnancy win her an Oscar?; watch out for ‘Ghost Rider 2’; accusations of fraud and corruption at the Golden Globes; more…
question of the day: Is Ignatiy Vishnevetsky too young to host Roger Ebert’s new review show?
The just-announced cohost of Ebert’s new review show is all of 24 years old. It means he was 10 or 11 when Christy Lemire, the show’s other host, starting working as a film critic. WTF?
‘Harry Potter’ beats up ‘Star Wars’; Michael Caine, psychic author; TV getting gayer; more: leftover links
Plus: the deaths of Stephen J. Cannell, Sally Menke, Gloria Stuart, and Tony Curtis; Armond White is at it again (and so are his adversaries); Chris Noth thinks critics killed Sex and the City; and on and on…
you’re not helping: Armond White says, “Roger Ebert destroyed film criticism”
So, Armond White is a troll, after all. I debated not posting anything about this at all. I keep hearing my mom’s voice, her advice on what to do about bullies when I was kid: “Just ignore them. They’re only looking for attention.” That’s White in a nutshell: He says crazy things, he gets linked, … more…
question of the day: If it’s okay to worry that ‘Inception’ is too smart, where is the worry about movies that are too stupid?
Inception has finally arrived, and now we’ll see if audiences feel the same way about it as critics do: reviews range from pretty good to rapturous, with only a few detractors (and not just Armond White, either!) But I’ve been noticing a particular tenor in the predictions of how audiences may react that I find … more…
question of the day: Why do we like bad movies?
It seems like it’s been bad-movies news all week, what with Syfy’s two big announcements: DIY bad Saturday Night Syfy Original and Tiffany vs. Debbie Gibson. And then I came across an article by Leor Galil at New City Film about the apparent “sudden resurgence” of bad movies, particularly as a midnight-movie phenomenon: Alongside “The … more…
wtf: who cares if ‘Toy Story 3’ is 100% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes?
Whatever issues you may have with Rotten Tomatoes — and lots of people see lots of problems in the site in particular and in the larger notion that something as idiosyncratic as 150 film reviews can be boiled down and compressed into one metric — it’s surely easy to admit that at least some people … more…
trailer break: ‘Greenberg’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Rich white boy angst! I mean, the Ben Stiller character has gotta be rich if he can afford to do nothing for a while, right? What a luxury! So far, the most interesting this about this movie is the kerfluffle over New York Press critic Armond White, … more…
