the Internet demands authenticity? (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
MPAA
the MPAA doesn’t like SOPA strikers, wah wah
They’re afraid…
Shame (review)
Strips away the bullshit to the bare, spare truth: what pop culture typically feeds us as “ordinary” male sexuality is probably worthy of a psychiatric diagnosis.
a remarkably reasonable statement on ‘Shame’s NC-17 rating
Is perhaps the NC-17 stigma starting to disappear?
question of the day: What part of Hollywood would you #Occupy?
I might #Occupy studio facilities where they do motion-capture, and allow it only for Andy Serkis to portray a hobbitlike creature or an ape…
today in studio asskissing: Harold and Kumar are here to kill the Christmas child inside you
Did you know there is a new Harold and Kumar movie on its way… just in time to ruin your holidays? Ha ha, ho ho: now you do.
question of the day: Why has the depiction of suicide in movies tripled over the past half century?
Is it just that violence overall has increased in movies since 1950? Have we become a more despairing society since then? Is there something else at work?
Real Ratings now on Twitter
If you’ve been enjoying the snarky Real Ratings I’ve been applying to films, there’s a new Twitter feed you can follow to keep up with all of them…
deep thought (re our ratings systems)
In what universe — except for the bonzo one we live in — are “intense prolonged sequences of sci-fi action violence, mayhem and destruction” the equivalent of “some violent content” and “brief strong language”?
trailer break: ‘The Hangover Part II’ (the one you can’t see in theaters)
Look, it’s just like The Hangover, except instead of a baby, there’s a monkey. Oh oh and the monkey sucks on the fake boner, which is just — hoo! — hilarious.
