The Binge: Mrs America (#FXonHulu/#BBC)
Apart from the value of its explicatory gloss on anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly, there is entertaining, gratifying drama in the clash of so many complex feminist women working against her.
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curated: Emma Thompson’s powerful #MeToo letter to Skydance re John Lasseter’s “second chance”
The woman is a goddess and a badass.
curated: LA, NYC, Boston and Nat’l film critics boycott Disney films in year-end awards
The relationship between the studios and critics has always been a contentious one, for obvious reasons, but what might have been previously called a cold war has hotted up this year…
CHiPs movie review: they promised chip would happen, and it did
Toilet humor, cars exploding for no reason, random naked boobies, and gay panic… although, weirdly, also lots of awkward, unerotic nearly naked Dax Shepard.
theater critic sees a few films, figures that’s basis enough to trash film critics
You’d think that the sorry state of arts criticism would create a sort of camaraderie among those still lucky enough to be employed as critics…
Paramount kills celluloid
I’ve never been one of those film fans who believes celluloid is better than digital. Still, this is big.
Lianne Spiderbaby plagiarized my review of Turn Me On, Dammit! (final update)
I’ve posted the Lianne Spiderbaby piece that Bleeding Cool asked for from me and then scrubbed. And now I’m done with this. I hope…
how in the name of all that is decent can we fix the Grumpy Cat movie?
Grumpy Cat the Movie is coming, and it’s going to be horrible, and you can’t stop it. But we can dream about making it better…
all movie news is inside-baseball now
Used to be, the only people who cared about box-office returns were studio execs and filmmakers who had a movie opening that weekend. Now, no film geek worth calling a film geek cannot rattle off what the biggest opener of the year so far has been…
question of the day: Why do we consider animated movies to be kiddie flicks or “for families”?
What will it take for the assumption to stop being automatic? An R-/15-rated animated film? Is such a thing even possible in the existing business environment for films?
