has a movie or TV show ever so inspired you that you actually changed something about your body, wardrobe, or home?
If not, what film or TV show would come closest to getting you to change your personal style?
Hunger Games
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire review: reluctant heroine
A devastating indictment of pop culture as propaganda — about its power and the limits of its powers — and an upending of the typical teen-girl romance movie.
The Internship review: triumph of the shill
Is it supposed to be flattering to Google that two idiots bullshit their way into a highly competitive internship, even though they know nothing about computers, or the Internet, or programming?
how easily do you identify with opposite-sex protagonists in movies (or TV, or books)?
I’m particularly interested to hear from men about whatever limited experience they might have being forced to identity with a female hero.
the odds are in our favor (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire trailer)
I hope the film is as powerful as the trailer is making it look.
are there different versions of Movie 43 in the UK and the US?
It would appear so. This was discovered on the Twitter when New York-based critic Lou Lumenick questioned my review of the film…
Red Dawn (trailer)
Gotta love that America’s new blue-eyed boy-next-door Marine hero gonna save Mom, the flag, and apple pie is… Australian.
Doctor Who thing of the day: Grover and Cookie Monster sing Doctor Who!
The Sesame Street stars visited the offices of Entertainment Weekly recently, and regaled the staff with their musical interpretations of some pop-culture phenomena…
House at the End of the Street (review)
Banal, lazy filmmaking that cannot even be bothered to be cheerfully cheap and cheesy. Jennifer Lawrence is trapped in something that is constitutionally unable to allow her to be the strong, competent young woman she arrived as.
