what would it take for a superhero movie to win the Oscar for Best Picture?
Here’s an idea: tell a story about a female superhero who has to fight not only bad guys but cultural assumptions. Cast Jennifer Lawrence.
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all movie news is inside-baseball now
Used to be, the only people who cared about box-office returns were studio execs and filmmakers who had a movie opening that weekend. Now, no film geek worth calling a film geek cannot rattle off what the biggest opener of the year so far has been…
Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts (85th Academy Awards) (review)
“Paperman” might be the most romantic movie of the year…
question of the day: What are your all-time favorite and least favorite black-and-white movies?
I must choose the magnificent The Artist, for which its black-and-whiteness isn’t merely an artistic choice but inherent in its genius…
question of the day: Are classic pulp novels too dated to make faithful transfers to the big screen?
John Carter doesn’t work, but with some updating and shifts in emphasis, the Victorian Sherlock Holmes and War of the Worlds have made recent — and very successful — transfers to the big screen. Has entertainment moved on too much for popcorn crowds to care about classic pulp presented classically?
apparently Uggie is a fraud (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
John Carter (review)
This dreary Disneyfied inconsequence features all the bigotries of century-old pulp fiction and none of the romance, neither the sexual nor the adventurous kind…
cool viral video for Alien prequel Prometheus… (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Uggie gets an Oscar! (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
British Film Bloggers Circle announces 2012 awards
The British Film Bloggers Circle — a new organization of which I am a member — has announced the winners our first annual awards…
