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New York Times

question of the day: Is Hollywood afraid of fanboys?

Wed, Jul 18, 2012
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I don’t think we need to worry that Hollywood will stop pandering to fanboys, but how might its approach change when it fears their wrath?

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question of the weekend: Do you ever wonder if you’re sensory deprived?

Sat, Jun 30, 2012
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Do you feel a loss of communing with nature or with the natural world? Do you make conscious decisions to reconnect with the world outside your home and your cyber life?

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Doctor Who thing of the day: screenings of classic stories in NYC

Mon, Jun 25, 2012
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At the Paley Center for Media in Manhattan, all summer long…

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if Shakespeare wrote about the modern English royal family (and other adventures in social networking)

Wed, Jun 06, 2012
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What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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Free Men (Les hommes libres) (review)

Fri, May 25, 2012
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I kept hoping to get caught up in this untold story of the French Resistance in more than a coolly intellectual way, but that never happened.

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even Variety thinks critics should be objective (and other adventures in social networking)

Sun, May 06, 2012
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What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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Samuel L. Jackson is not as cool as I thought he was (and other adventures in social networking)

Sat, May 05, 2012
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What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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question of the weekend: Are the actions of hacker group Anonymous effective or mere vandalism?

Sat, Mar 31, 2012
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Do you, perhaps, support their goals but not how they go about promoting them? Or is there no value at all in what they do?

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question of the day: Is there one simple symbol or icon that represents movies today?

Wed, Mar 21, 2012
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Popcorn, film reels, strips of celluoid, clapper boards, directors’ chairs, tickets, 3D glasses… nothing feels very satisfying.

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question of the day: Why does The New York Times think a headless, limbless torso of a woman says “summer movies”?

Tue, Mar 20, 2012
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Where is the “escapist pleasure” in this? How could they possibly have thought this was “playful, wistful or just plain fun”?

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