British Film Bloggers Circle announces 2012 awards
The British Film Bloggers Circle — a new organization of which I am a member — has announced the winners our first annual awards…
Help
The Artist will have a good night (and other Oscar predictions)
Here’s an at-a-glance look at my picks for tomorrow night’s Academy Awards…
question of the day: Are the Oscars an ever clearer indication that Hollywood *knows* it makes crap?
Because the divide between the movies Hollywood makes for popular consumption are increasingly not the ones Hollywood honors as quality work…
AWFJ announces 2011 awards
So happy that The Artist is Best Film for us…
question of the day: Why aren’t there more professional female characters in movies?
Who was the last really notable professional woman you can recall in a movie?
question of the day: Has Hollywood abandoned young men?
Transformers, Pirates of the Caribbean, Thor, Green Lantern, X-Men, Captain America, etc. This is what 2011 looks like at the movies. In what way can it be construed that young men are “endangered” at the box office?
The Help (review)
If movies that’re all men and no women can be universal, so can this one. This is The Shawshank Redemption.
The Debt (trailer)
This was original set for last December, prime awards-bait time, but now it’s getting dumped on Labor Day weekend? Not a good sign.
question of the day: Are stories about racism automatically racist if told through the eyes of white characters?
If the Association of Black Women Historians thinks The Help is racist, aren’t I just demonstrating my own white privilege by insisting that it isn’t?
The Help (trailer)
The film is not the sort of happy, silly Southern froth this trailer makes it out to be.
