need a good piece of journalmalism? just make it up!
Your mainstream media at work: Decide what the story is, then make the facts fit it. If you can…
New York
question of the weekend: What would be the equivalent of L.A.’s Carmageddon where you live?
It’s Carmageddon in Los Angeles this weekend, as a long stretch of a major highway in the perhaps the most car-crazy city in the U.S. — if not the world — is closed for some heavy-duty construction work…
question of the weekend: Snow: Love it? Hate it? Wish there was more or less of it where you live?
Christmastime is typically associated with snow, but it isn’t always in the forecast in many places that celebrate the holiday…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: photos from Cardiff location shooting
Cardiff is standing in for 1960s New York City. How convincingly can this be accomplished? Not too well, I’m guessing…
can the big studios and multiplexes learn from the success of alt opportunities for communal film consumption?
The U.K. box office had one of its worst weekends in years — since December 2004, in fact — this past Friday through Sunday. Killers was the top film, debuting with just a little over £1 million in takings, and the overall box office down 22 percent from the previous weekend, which was already awful, … more…
Get Him to the Greek (review)
Russell Brand is still the best thing here, but at least he gets to be onscreen a helluva lot more than he was in *Sarah Marshall.* Alas that onscreen just as often is Jonah Hill…
top 10 movies of 2009: the whys and wherefores
If you regularly check my on-the-fly ranking of new theatrical releases as I see them, then my top 10 movies of 2009 are no surprise: I shuffled a few titles around a bit last month, but the films ranked in the top 10 for 2009 haven’t changed much in months. (The 2009 ranking is here; … more…
question of the day: How important is it for a film to be shot where it’s supposed to be set?
Alex Proyas, the filmmaker behind Knowing is in a bit of a scuffle with the Australian film agency, Screen Australia, over tax breaks for the film, according to IMDB’s Studio Briefing: Proyas is arging that the film deserves more tax consideration because while it is set in the U.S., the film was shot in Melbourne. … more…
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (review)
Why do we love Sidney, even as he is spectacularly unpalatable, contradictory, hypocritcal, a lout, a louse, plagued by poor judgment, and a terrible dresser? Because he’s Simon Pegg.
The Day the Earth Stood Still (review)
When the aliens come, and they want to blow us out of the galaxy for being such a waste of organic chemistry, this movie will be among their evidence against us.
