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the dystopia is here, part 2

Sat, Jun 15, 2019
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Entitled well-paid celeb teenager to prank desperate job-seekers for your entertainment. We. Are. So. Fucked.

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curated: LA, NYC, Boston and Nat’l film critics boycott Disney films in year-end awards

Tue, Nov 07, 2017
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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…

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does film criticism have a future?

Thu, Jul 09, 2015
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As you may have already heard, film criticism site The Dissolve announced yesterday that it was shutting down…

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fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of Apr 20-26 2013

Sun, Apr 28, 2013
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Actual unretouched phrases that people plugged into search engines this week that led them to this site (with some commentary from me)…

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question of the day: Is the *idea* of movies now more important than the movies themselves in entertainment media?

Tue, Nov 20, 2012
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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…

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question of the day: What makes a good book-to-film adaptation?

Thu, Mar 29, 2012
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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?

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question of the day: Can movies and television be too visually beautiful?

Thu, Oct 13, 2011
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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.

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question of the day: Is it possible that spoilers don’t spoil?

Fri, Aug 12, 2011
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A supposedly scientific study has ”proven” that people prefer stories that have been pre-spoiled for them. Can this be right?

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you’re not helping: AV Club writer fabricates a review, and too many people defend him

Tue, Dec 14, 2010
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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…

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question of the day: What films are the most inappropriately rated?

Tue, Dec 07, 2010
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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…

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