question of the day: What movie or TV show best embodies the place where you live?
I’ve often said, to anyone who’s asked if I watched Seinfeld, that I hardly ever watched it because it was too much like my everyday life…
questions
question of the day: How do we fix the problem of spoiler-laden trailers?
How many times have you known what was going to happen next in a film because you’d seen the resolutiuon in a trailer? How do we make Hollywood stop doing this?
question of the day: Will future generations understand ‘The Simpsons’?
Will we have future scholars footnoting The Simpsons to explain why Kent Brockman and Rainier Wolfcastle are funny?
question of the day: Will Americans accept the new Al Jazeera children’s channel?
Will parents let their kids watch? Will kids want to watch? (That’s excluding Arab-American parents and kids, who represent only a tiny minority of the America population, and won’t be enough to let such a channel survive.)
question of the weekend: Have you ever been in an earthquake?
The closest I came was when I slept through a very minor earthquake on Long Island back in high school in the mid 1980s. And I think I’d like to keep that as my closest brush with earthquakes. (Also, feel free to engage in general discussion about the Japan disaster.)
question of the day: How do you chose which movies and TV shows to watch?
Hundreds of cable channels. Hulu. Netflix. Lovefilm. On-demand. A century of movies, 60 years of TV… How to choose?
question of the day: If they asked you, would you be willing to replace Julie Taymor as director of ‘Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark’?
A classic conundrum, says reader Bruce: risk being known as the fool who agreed to take over as captain of the Titanic in mid-sink or, if you succeed in turning the $65 million debacle around, become the greatest savior in show biz history.
question of the day: What is the single most powerful moment ever in cinematic history?
I might pick the end of The Usual Suspects. Or the “you’re getting on that plane” bit in Casablanca. Or… Well, there’s a lot of them, probably. It would be tough to pick a single one…
question of the day: Would you watch movies on Facebook?
Warner Bros. announced today that it has started offering streaming movies to rent or purchase directly on Facebook. Good idea? What are the potential problems?
question of the day: What does Hollywood want with former U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd… and vice versa?
The MPAA has a new chairman: a former U.S. Senator who has made a career of favoring corporations over citizens. How will he help make Hollywood even worse than it already is?
