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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…
Is it time to be scared yet?
Does Hollywood truly intend to be more creative, more original… or is this just a clever new marketing tactic?
To The New York Times, no less. Frankly, I’m not sure I want The New York Times talking about Doctor Who. That’s a sure sign that it’s going mainstream and will soon be boring…
Sorry if it seems I’m obsessed with Julian Assange and Wikileaks, but I do think this may well be the most important issue of the moment, because what happens as a result of it will impact how our society will discuss everything else: either entirely freely, or fettered by corporate and governmental constraints…
Plus: first-grader teased over her Star Wars water bottle; journalistic ethics getting a workout; saga of a film critic banned from screenings who got her buddies at The New York Times to intervene; more…
Leah Rozen in The New York Times, writing about the new British film Made in Dagenham, about women in the late 1960s who struck the Ford plant where they worked, makes a cogent point that hadn’t occurred to me until I read her words, though it’s clearly so head-smackingly obvious that it almost doesn’t need to be said: Hollywood doesn’t make movies about working-class Americans anymore.
Could this really have been be an honest mistake? It’s hard to see how Stone and Parker ever imagined they’d get away with no one noticing, but it’s also hard not to see their actions here as sheer laziness and stupidity. But apparently they’re fine with us thinking they’re stupid…
Plus: Javier Bardem to star in Chilean mine movie; Matt Damon not to star in the next Bourne movie; Napoleon Dynamite and How to Train Your Dragon going to TV; lots more…
It’s almost an understatement to call this tragic, but there doesn’t seem to be another word that covers the strange life and stranger death of science fiction fan, writer, and Internet personality F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre.
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