Larry Wilmore taking Colbert’s timeslot with The Minority Report
This is very cool. Late night will still be a sausage fest, but at least it won’t be all white.
New York Times
streaming sucks (which is why you need my help)
It’s all about rights and licensing and everyone jealously hanging on to their exclusive ability to do something with a movie for as long as possible.
“can women save film criticism?”
If it’s a thankless, underpaid job… then of course it’ll be left to women to do. Thanks, guys!
New York Times critic AO Scott is all boo-hoo waaaa grrl power
Do you imagine that anyone — any single person — will accuse Scott of dragging feminism into everything?
behold the power of movies to bring down dictators
There’s no such thing as “just a movie.”
what would happen if critics simply stopped reviewing bad movies?
There’s serious talk in book circles about the value (or lack thereof) of negative reviews. What if film people started wondering the same thing?
fun fact: Sid Caesar was television’s killer app
If you didn’t want to be left out of what everyone else was talking about — like Caesar’s show — you had to have a TV.
doing some number crunching on subscriptions (and why I need you to subscribe)
I’m looking for 321 new subscribers in February. Here’s where I got that number.
deaf Japanese composer genius is a fake? I can’t even
Apparently he’s not deaf and didn’t compose any of the music attributed to him. Wait, what?
dammit, so this happens even to New York Times journalists
Just by dint of their gender.
