curated: Harry Knowles is a total creep
Women who’ve read Knowles’s crap already knew this.
Harry Knowles
Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made documentary review: it belongs in a cinema!
Thoroughly hilarious, surprisingly poignant portrait of fandom, friendship, and the filmmaking odyssey that consumed the teenage years of three movie lovers.
question of the day: Is the rise of the geek a good thing for movies, or a bad thing? (Or is it too early to tell?)
Are the geeks directing Hollywood, or is Hollywood just learning how to better use the geeks?
wtf: the ‘Guardian’s list of 100 powerful people in British film has few Brits on it
I’m not blaming the Guardian for this. I’m blaming Hollywood’s overwhelming dominance.
wtf: Harry Knowles laments what he hath wrought
It’s sort of beautiful, in its way. Like how a mushroom cloud is beautiful. Harry Knowles, commenting on rumors about something to do with whatever the hell is going on with Spider-Man these days and who the hell is gonna direct The Hobbit anyway actually has the nerve to chastise Variety for reporting speculation in … more…
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism (review)
As critic turned filmmaker Gerald Peary’s documentary demonstrates, the field has been chock full of personality clashes, political posturing, conflicts of interest, and damned opinionated voices since forever.
question of the day: Do you worry about the independence of online film bloggers/writers/critics/journalists/fanboys?
This whole to-do over the FTC’s new rules regarding disclosure for bloggers who review products has me deeply puzzled, as it does many others who write online for a living. The Associated Press sums up the new rules, which go into effect on December 1: The FTC will require that writers on the Web clearly … 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…
trailer break: ‘Fanboys’
Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… Well, I hate to say that this trailer spoils some of the best jokes, but it’s true. The appearances of William Shatner, “Harry Knowles” (that’s not actually Knowles)… though I suppose you’d learn about all the geek-appeal cameos and jokes anyway: there’s no way they’d be … more…
