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Whitney documentary review: an 80s icon contemplated, venerated, mourned

Tue, Jul 03, 2018
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Deeply moving, truly tragic; a biography with a keenly journalistic but hugely sympathetic eye. Powerful compassion and a get-up-and-dance deployment of Houston’s music may well bring her a new generation of fans.

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all your suspicions about how Academy members cast their Oscar votes are accurate (and other adventures in social networking)

Wed, Feb 20, 2013
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Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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question of the day: Why have cable networks divorced their programming from all semblance of connection to their branding?

Fri, Sep 21, 2012
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It’s all shark attacks on Discovery, ice road truckers on the History Channel, and Honey Boo Boo on what used to be known as The Learning Channel. WTF?

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question of the day: Is two versions of a movie — one for kids and one for adults (like Hugh Jackman wants for ‘Wolverine’) — a good idea?

Fri, Oct 14, 2011
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Would that make it too confusing to know which is the “real” version? Or would it be barely different from the “director’s cut” versions we often get on DVD?

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question of the day: How ridiculous is the outrage over MTV’s American adaptation of ‘Skins’?

Mon, Jan 24, 2011
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It’s worth noting that the U.K. version of Skins is about to debut its fifth series this week, and the country is, for the most part, still standing. I have seen no wild gangs of feral teenagers, those who were not protected from Skins, roaming the streets, mugging dogs and harrassing old ladies…

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Nintendo says no to Justin Bieber; Ricky Gervais won’t host Golden Globes again; Michel Gondry not a fan of 3D; more: leftover links

Sat, Jan 22, 2011
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Plus: Kevin Smith was lying about how cool it was to direct Bruce Willis in Cop Out; CBS now stealing ideas from German TV; Joan Rivers gets kicked off Fox for bitching about Sarah Palin; more…

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question of the day: Who should Iron Man battle in ‘Iron Man 3’?

Tue, May 11, 2010
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So it’s $128 million for Iron Man 2 over its first weekend in North America: that’s down more than $5 million from the Sunday estimates, but it’s still good enough to trump Iron Man’s $98 million opening two years ago. (IM2 dropped 52 percent in the U.K. over its second weekend there, but still easily … more…

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question of the day: Is Insane Clown Posse for real with their “Miracles” video?

Mon, Apr 26, 2010
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My brother Ken forced me to watch this over the weekend, because he thought I’d find it hilarious. So I watched. It bored me, then I started to find it pathetic, and then it made me angry. Take a look: This is one of the most aggressively ignorant things I’ve ever seen, and what’s worse … more…

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question of the day: What’s the point of an untitled videogame movie?

Thu, Apr 15, 2010
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I saw this headline yesterday at Cinematical: “Paul Verhoeven Working on Untitled Video Game Movie” and I thought: What’s the point of an untitled videogame movie? Isn’t the whole reason for adapting movies from videogames in the first place is that there is built-in name recognition from the gamer fanbase, much in the same way … more…

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question of the day: What could the press have done for Kevin Smith?

Wed, Feb 24, 2010
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Of course we’ve all been hearing about Kevin Smith’s misadventures with Southwest Airlines, but I wasn’t sure that there was much to say about it beyond what Smith has already said. In my leftover links this past weekend, I pointed you to Smith’s own account of the affair, in which he explains why he’s so … more…

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