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is it The New York Times’ fault so many movies get released?

Sun, Jan 12, 2014
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Still, someone needs to be curating all these movies, finding the ones that are worth seeing and promoting them to movie lovers.

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evening clickbait: I am a heroine of cinema; who’s the robot that won’t cop out?; Magneto killed JFK; The Representation Project; John Sayles cannot get his films funded; Melissa Leo, agent of awesome

Thu, Dec 12, 2013
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Stuff I found on the Net today (and one from yesterday).

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evening clickbait: the Spike Lee Oldboy poster controversy gets weirder; apparently Philomena is unfair to nice Catholic nuns who saved innocent babies from whorish mothers

Sat, Nov 30, 2013
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Stuff I found on the Net today.

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David Tennant as a robot Jedi Master. you’re welcome (and other adventures in social networking)

Thu, Nov 08, 2012
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Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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question of the day: Can movie culture survive the death of so many cinemas?

Mon, Jul 09, 2012
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Should we worry? How will movie culture be changed when all that’s left are shopping-mall multiplexes? How will movie culture be different when almost everyone watches movies exclusively at home… and are we already there?

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Upside Down (trailer)

Mon, Jan 09, 2012
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Kirsten Dunst says “kind of like an accessible Brazil.” Brazil isn’t accessible? *facepalm*

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on the unseemly power of those crazy feminist bitches (or not) when it comes to making moves about women

Mon, Jul 11, 2011
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Hollywood doesn’t make feminist movies because Hollywood is not feminist. It’s surprising that anyone should find this surprising.

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film projection as a lost art; or, why projectionists must be scolded into doing their jobs

Fri, Jun 03, 2011
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If Terrence Malick can instruct projectionists on how to project Tree of Life, why couldn’t someone do the same for Kung Fu Panda 2?

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question of the day: Have you ever lied about liking a movie, and if so, why?

Wed, May 04, 2011
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I do think that any film critic who lies about his or her reaction to a movie needs to find different work. But there would seem to be no reason why a member of the moviegoing public wouldn’t lie about liking a film…

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wtf: film critic reviews ‘Inception’ without seeing it, doesn’t understand why this is a problem

Wed, Jul 07, 2010
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Sometimes a WTF moment is so jaw-droppingly WTFish that you have to stop, back up a step or two, cock your head like a mystified puppy getting its first look at the most awesomely balliest ball ever — like you can’t believe how perfectly inexplicable the excellence of its roundness and the fineness of its … more…

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