question of the day: What secondary or tertiary characters from literature deserve their own movie?
Or even if they don’t actually deserve it, you just want to see it…
questions
question of the day: Why do Americans love the Super Bowl so much?
The numbers are in: 111 million Americans watched the Super Bowl on Sunday. What was in it for all of them?
question of the day: What movie soundtrack could be — or do you wish would be — the soundtrack of your life?
My perfect life soundtrack is actually a fantasy score: It’s the music the recently deceased John Barry wrote called “Moviola.” It’s what he imagined would be the perfect music for the perfect movie, full of epic sweep and passion…
question of the day: Why isn’t Hailee Steinfeld a leading actress?
Have you seen True Grit? Have you noticed how it’s pretty much all about a 14-year-old girl? Have you noticed that not only is Hailee Steinfeld’s character the one who drives the story, but she also has at least as much screen time as Jeff Bridges, perhaps even more? So how the heck is she only a “supporting” actress?
question of the weekend: What seemingly unconnected consequences are we likely to experience as a result of global warming?
We’re already seeing some impact from global warming that might seem surprising, such as cities going bankrupt from snow removal, lost productivity when workers cannot get to work, and disruptions to personal lives because of lost vacation time…
question of the day: What filmmakers have improved like a fine wine?
Meaning not Have their older films improved with age? but Have they improved as artists with age?
question of the day: What filmmakers seem to have lost their minds?
Kevin Smith? John Carpenter? They’re two potentials on my list at the moment…
question of the day: Are American broadcast TV and quality programming now hopelessly incompatible?
Is “quality” now something that only a niche audience found on cable wants? What happened in less than 20 years, since the early 1990s, to so significantly alter the television landscape? And will things ever go back to the way they were?
question of the day: What movie has made you angriest, and why?
PopWatch wonders whether you saw The Rite this weekend, and if it made you mad. (I wonder why anyone would expect anything at all from a January thriller, but that’s just me.) Which makes me think about the movies that have good cause to make us angry…
