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My critical colleague and fellow member of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists Jennifer Merin asks an intriguing question at About.com: Documentaries: Should Michael Moore stop making documentaries? Michael Moore’s new documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story, may be his last. Or so suggests CNN.com’s Matt Carey, who questioned Moore about an interview in which the … more…
Sasha Stone at Awards Daily wants to know whom we should legitimately consider a film critic, and whom we shouldn’t: What makes a film critic, one has to wonder. Nowadays, anyone with a blog who sees movies is called a “critic.” I really think that should be amended to use the term “blogger” or “industry … more…
Not long ago, we talked about how we research movie showtimes in the wake of some major newspapers ending their longtime practice of running movie listings. Now, it’s TV’s turn. USA Today informs us that “TVGuide.com spruces up to appeal to more viewers”: [TV Guide Online’s general manager, Paul] Greenberg is eager to show that … more…
When I read about Freshmen, I thought, This is so perfectly ridiculous and so perfectly perfect for the inanity that is the American sitcom, it’s shocking that no one has thought of it before. From Variety: Sitcom scribe Greg Malins (“Friends”) has partnered with Huffington Post maven Arianna Huffington to develop a sitcom for ABC … more…
Oh, the way they gouge fans. Turns out that when Terminator Salvation is released on DVD this autumn, it’ll be rated R for “some violence and brief nudity.” As I wrote recently about this very topic over at Film.com: Yup, because brief nudity is what was needed to make this movie suck less. As you … more…
Last night I arrived home just in time to hear the news break that actor Patrick Swayze had died, and a few minutes later, when CNN’s signature evening news broadcast, Anderson Cooper 360, began, it was the top story. Of course it’s going to be of interest to many people, and of course Swayze had … more…
Ah, what a weekend I’ve had. I was at a cousin’s wedding celebrations on both Saturday and Sunday, got home last night just in time to collapse, hit the ground running the first thing this morning to return a rental car, hit a press event for Jane Campion’s new film, Bright Star, and now is … more…
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, based on the book by Judi Barrett and Ron Barrett [Amazon U.S.] [Amazon U.K.], opens next week. Spike Jonze’s take on Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are [Amazon U.S.] [Amazon U.K.] is coming soon. Movies based on children’s books are nothing new, but most of them are based … more…
Oh man, I’m geekgasming. Blackfilm.com is reporting that Sharlto Copley — Wikus Van De Merwe in District 9 — has been offered the role of pilot Captain H.M. “Howling Mad” Murdock in the new A-Team movie. The awesomely awesome cast already includes Bradley Cooper as Lieutenant Templeton “Faceman” Peck and Liam Neeson as Colonel John … more…
Filmmaker Louie Psihoyos, at Gothamist, laments the fact that his totally gripping documentary The Cove — about an abhorrent annual dolphin slaughter in Japan — isn’t being seen by very many folks: It’s like we’ve become a nation of dunces. Where are we getting our information from? We’re not reading and we’re not going to … more…
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