fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of Dec 08-14 2012
Actual unretouched phrases that people plugged into search engines this week that led them to this site (with some commentary from me)…
Jodie Foster
Carnage (review)
Sometimes it’s easy to separate the artist from his art. Roman Polanksi’s latest makes this really tough.
Carnage (trailer)
Kate Winslet, John C. Reilly, Christoph Waltz, Jodie Foster: how can this not be great?
question of the day: Google is guessing at the sexual orientation of celebs — is this weird?
Google isn’t revealing any secrets, it’s just summarizing the conversation about a celebrity. But why suddenly make a special point of summarizing so succinctly about this particular aspect of a person’s life?
watch it: “Armadyne: Taking Mankind Into The Future” (viral for Neill Blomkamp’s ‘Elysium’)
After District 9, I will follow Neill Blomkamp anywhere…
Tyler Perry tells Spike Lee to go to hell; an apology for ‘Superman Returns’; Canadians hate loud TV ads; more: leftover links
Plus: Even rightwing bloggers admit Atlas Shrugged sucks; Restrepo director Tim Hetherington killed covering fighting in Libya; Jodie Foster on yet another way Hollywood hates women…
cinematic roots of: ‘The Night Chronicles: Devil’
In The Night Chronicles: Devil, a group of hapless folks are trapped in an elevator with Satan. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
retro trailer: ‘The Village of the Damned’
Ah, it was the beginning of the subgenre of horror movies about demonic children that would enjoy a solid run in the 1960s and 70…
October 16: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but there’s all this vengeance to be doled out and all those injustices to be put right. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on Monday, “Hey, … more…
‘Orphan’ and the generational aspects of horror
If you’ve been reading my online writings for any length of time, you may already be aware that I’m a fan of the works of William Strauss and Neil Howe, who’ve proposed a generational theory of history and culture that involves a regular, pendulumlike shift in attitudes every 25 years or so — that is, … more…
