Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story documentary review: beauty is a beast
The infuriatingly tragic true story of the Hollywood superstar whose brain was ignored because she was beautiful. A stupendous tribute to a remarkable woman.
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the Force is with white men, and hardly anyone else [update]
Star Wars is stuck “a long time ago”: in a 1950s mindset that was already outmoded when the first film was released in 1977.
Entertainment Weekly is hiring writers! as long as those writers don’t want to get paid
Because why on Earth should a multibillion-dollar global corporation like Time Inc. have to pay its employees? That’s an unnecessary burden on a business.
The Wolf of Wall Street review: legitimate businessman
A debauched end-of-empire horror story disguised as an outrageous comedy, with remarkable performances from Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill.
what are the potential upsides of allowing people to use their smartphones in cinemas?
This is purely as an exercise in creative contrarianism. I don’t imagine anyone reading this would actually welcome a “second-screen” experience at the multiplex.
question of the week: Why are celebrities influential?
Do we have some sense of famous people as all-around authorities? Is it a subconscious desire to be like the people we admire?
question of the day: Do actors deserve to be well paid for appearing in successful films even if they are not the entire reason the films are successful?
New York Post critic Kyle Smith cries foul at the fact that Kristen Stewart is so well paid for Twilight, but he seems to miss a key point…
kiss up to the powerful in exchange for positive coverage: your mainstream media at work (aka Rupert Murdoch is an evil toad)
I’m not even surprised by the fact that Rupert Murdoch would bully a teenager into working for him for free in exchange for positive coverage (which his outlets then failed to offer)…
because big corporate sites ask me to work for free (so: subscribe!)
I got an email recently from a staffer at Forbes.com who asked me to contribute content to that site, for which I would be paid the princely sum of $0.00.
things you need to know: Tyler Perry is the best-paid man in Hollywood in 2011
His secret: Perry just doesn’t make the same old shit again and again. He makes new, different shit.
