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curated: Oscar Isaac and Timothée Chalamet on playing father and son

Thu, Oct 28, 2021
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I don’t often discuss, in my reviews, actors’ performances, because I’m often aiming to get at the larger cultural impact of movies, but I am fascinated by actors’ craft…

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Where Are the Women?: crunching the numbers

Mon, Apr 11, 2016
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Everything we learned from the Where Are the Women? project. (Spoiler: It’s not pretty, but there is hope…) [This post is not behind the paywall.]

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the Force is with white men, and hardly anyone else [update]

Wed, Apr 30, 2014
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Star Wars is stuck “a long time ago”: in a 1950s mindset that was already outmoded when the first film was released in 1977.

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is Russell Crowe’s Noah a “crazy, irrational, religious nut”?

Fri, Feb 14, 2014
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Paramount is hoping to sell Darren Aronofsky’s Noah to both secular and religious audiences. This’ll be fun to watch…

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Alone Yet Not Alone trailer: the most horrifically racist thing you’ll see this year

Thu, Feb 06, 2014
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This is really hard to take when it’s supposedly the work of people who think Jesus has their back.

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what’s the best way to honor the lives and work of famous people when they die?

Mon, Dec 09, 2013
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Is it doing something in the spirit of their work? Is it not deifying them by pretending they were more or other than they were?

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evening clickbait: another reason Hunger Games is awesome; animals *were* harmed

Wed, Nov 27, 2013
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Stuff I found on the Net today.

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I’m not sure that telling men that a movie about women isn’t for them is helping

Fri, Jul 19, 2013
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You want to reinforce the idea that women are a minority with niche interests that could not possibly be appreciated or understood by default normal human beings (ie, men)? This is the perfect way to do it.

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a World War Z sequel? maybe if they’d kept the original ending

Sun, Jun 23, 2013
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The original ending, much of which was apparently actually shot, is a lot darker and much closer in tone to the book…

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“just give up, stop complaining, accept idiocy as inevitable”

Mon, Apr 22, 2013
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That seems to be what Tim Goodman at The Hollywood Reporter is saying. Fuck that shit…

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