calling bullshit: “Teen Mag Denies Justin Bieber Was Photoshoppped”
The boy ain’t right on a regular basis, but this image is even more the-boy-ain’t-right than usual.
calling bullshit
calling bullshit on: blaming audiences for Hollywood’s sins…
… as *The Christian Science Monitor* does in a piece by staff writer Gloria Goodale. Under the headline ‘Why intriguing ‘Inception’ is the Hollywood exception,’ Goodale says…
calling bullshit on: ‘Toy Story 3’s miraculous seven-day U.K. “opening weekend”
Jesus could make a couple of loaves of bread and a few fish feed a crowd. But only Hollywood can make a weekend last seven days. Recently I wrote a piece for Film.com about Wednesday openings for films, what the purpose of them is, and if they make sense. The context was: Why move Knight … more…
calling bullshit on: Owen Gleiberman at EW’s The Movie Critics…
…for deciding that two female action stars constitutes a “new normal”: It’s amusing to realize, in hindsight, that Luc Besson’s funky-violent French art-house thriller La Femme Nikita, in 1990, and its rote American remake, Point of No Return, in 1993, were still treating lady-killer heroines with kid gloves. At that point, seeing an actress like … more…
calling bullshit: on Anderson Cooper (and the rest of the corporate media)
On July 1st, Anderson Cooper — on his weeknight CNN program Anderson Cooper 360 — had this to report on new government restrictions on journalists covering the BP oil spill (transcript of pertinent bits after the jump): Cooper is railing against a new rule announced today backed by the force of law and the threat … more…
calling bullshit: on the supposed bisexuality of viewership
Aaron Cutler at Slant Magazine opens an essay on a Cary Grant retrospective at the Brooklyn Academy of Music — which is, for the New York neophyte, a major forum for film, too — like this: Viewership is by nature bisexual. It compels us to take on the perspectives of men desiring women, of women … more…
