curated: why I am a feminist film critic
It’s because film journalism is so very unfeminist.
Devin Faraci
from Facebook: how did Devin Faraci get to be so powerful and successful, anyway?
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question of the day: How could TV be more experimental?
In what other ways, beyond breaking the fourth wall, could TV do something different? Or is stuff like this simply too arty for mainstream TV audiences? Why isn’t there room, on a hundred-plus channels, for something more arty?
watch it: “Portal: No Escape”
I don’t see why this is a big deal. It’s no different than, say, Skyline, my worst movie of 2010…
inconsistent embargo ugliness rears its ugly head again with ‘X-Men: First Class’
I have not seen X-Men: First Class yet. I’ll see it tomorrow evening. Right around 24 hours from now, I will have an unbearable urge to send a tweet out to the Net as I emerge from my screening, to let you all know what my inital reaction is. And I will have to strangle that urge in a way that other critics haven’t had to…
what he said: Devin Faraci at Badass Digest…
…about why Thor has the wrong ending (spoilers, of course)…
question of the day: Has the nature of the modern movie geek changed?
Devin Fararci at CHUD.com posted a provocative essay recently decrying the dreary mainstream tastes of those who call themselves movie geeks these days: For the last couple of years I’ve been trying to wrap my head around an increasingly vocal segment of our readership – people who seem to hate weird, offbeat, unique and difficult … more…
reviews of ‘Watchmen’ embargoed! or not!
Dunno if you’ve heard, but apparently there’s a little superhero movie opening all over the world this Friday name of Watchmen. You’d think teh Interwebs was nutso over comic book movies or sumthin’, cuz everyone’s falling all over themselves to be the first geek to post a review of the movie. If you’re a geek … more…
