question of the day: Has the Academy just made it too difficult for documentaries to qualify for the Oscars?
Should the critics at The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times be the gatekeepers for an awards organization they aren’t members of?
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question of the day: Should we applaud successful movie marketing when the movie being marketed is a stinker?
I’m angry as a filmgoer, and on behalf of all those filmgoers who plunked down for a ticket to The Devil Inside this weekend and then felt like they’d been ripped off.
question of the weekend: If aliens visited, what would you be embarrassed to have to admit about the human race?
Inspired by a tweet by Neil deGrasse Tyson…
question of the day: What was the most sexist movie or movie moment in 2011?
Yesterday’s QOTD was about a feminist net positive: the most kickass female action character of 2011. Today, we go the other way…
question of the day: Who was the most kickass female action film character of 2011?
I gotta go with Bryony, the kickass elf Wrapping Operative Grade Three, in Arthur Christmas…
question of the day: What movie event would you be willing to participate in a re-creation of?
A re-creation of the Titanic’s maiden voyage doesn’t have an iceberg collision on the schedule, but it’s totally impossible not to guess that someone will re-create Jack’s “I’m the king of the world!” moment…
question of the day: Are Marvel’s X-Men human?
In a lawsuit that sounds more like a raucous fanboy debate than a legal proceeding, Marvel’s own lawyers are insisting that the mutant superpowered characters from X-Men are not, in fact, human…
question of the day: What is your most anticipated movie of 2012?
I gotta go with The Hobbit. I think I might well be happy to have no other movie but The Hobbit to watch this year.
question of the weekend: New Year’s resolutions — love ’em? hate ’em? make ’em and ignore ’em?
Do you make resolutions for the new year? Do you ever keep them? What would you like to resolve to do newly or differently in the new year, even if you know you’re unlikely to actually keep those resolutions?
question of the weekend: What’s the funniest book you’ve ever read?
I would choose The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. It remains hilarious every time I read it…
