The Sweeney (review)
This British attempt to ape Hollywood action movies only looks absurd, even if it does accidentally also hold up most Hollywood action movies as absurd, too…
Golden Globes
Bela Lugosi as Jesus will blow your mind (and other adventures in social networking)
Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Mama (trailer)
Starring Golden Globe winner Jessica Chastain! And also Nordic god Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. So I’m there.
the 19th-century painting that inspired blockbuster movie posters (and other adventures in social networking)
Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
question of the day: What do you think of the Golden Globe winners (and losers)?
Feel free to talk about the TV side as well, if you like…
question of the day: What do you wish awards winners would say in their acceptance speeches?
Beyond the usual thank-yous and shout-outs to social and political causes, that is…
watch it: “L. DiCaprio”
Brilliant parody of the J. Edgar trailer from the Funny or Die crew…
trailer break: ‘Frankie & Alice’
Halle Berry was nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance here without anyone, it seems, apart from the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association having seen the film…
question of the day: Are American broadcast TV and quality programming now hopelessly incompatible?
Is “quality” now something that only a niche audience found on cable wants? What happened in less than 20 years, since the early 1990s, to so significantly alter the television landscape? And will things ever go back to the way they were?
what you don’t understand about Twitter; Facebook defriends Roger Ebert; Golden Globes in big trouble; more: leftover links
Plus: Katie Holmes smeared by mean ol’ gossip rags; Syfy picks up Web series The Mercury Men; the Internet stole Obama’s State of the Union address; more…
