the dystopia is here, part 2
Entitled well-paid celeb teenager to prank desperate job-seekers for your entertainment. We. Are. So. Fucked.
AV Club
curated: LA, NYC, Boston and Nat’l film critics boycott Disney films in year-end awards
The relationship between the studios and critics has always been a contentious one, for obvious reasons, but what might have been previously called a cold war has hotted up this year…
does film criticism have a future?
As you may have already heard, film criticism site The Dissolve announced yesterday that it was shutting down…
fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of Apr 20-26 2013
Actual unretouched phrases that people plugged into search engines this week that led them to this site (with some commentary from me)…
question of the day: Is the *idea* of movies now more important than the movies themselves in entertainment media?
Huge chunks of the media, for instance, seem more concerned with guessing box office results and checking themselves for accuracy than whether the movies themselves are any good…
question of the day: What makes a good book-to-film adaptation?
Do the rules vary depending on the book, or are there some hard-and-fast basics that anyone hoping to successfully translate a book to film should follow?
question of the day: Can movies and television be too visually beautiful?
The Tree of Life is a “beautiful” film, even its detractors appear to agree. But so is every other TV commercial and throwaway police procedural.
question of the day: Is it possible that spoilers don’t spoil?
A supposedly scientific study has ”proven” that people prefer stories that have been pre-spoiled for them. Can this be right?
you’re not helping: AV Club writer fabricates a review, and too many people defend him
Leonard Pierce, a writer at the AV Club, ”reviewed” a book that isn’t even finished yet, and he’s got a whole helluva lotta people dissmissing his actions as no big deal…
question of the day: What films are the most inappropriately rated?
Bashing the MPAA is always fun, and I will never miss an opportunity to do so. So let’s join the party A.V. Club started yesterday with their list of the 15 most egregious MPAA screwups. In a piece entitled “This film is questionably rated,” they began with the film Once…
