question of the day: What is the greatest children’s film of all time?
The U.K.’s *Radio Times* — the British equivalent of the U.S.’s *TV Guide* — polled its readers to determine the best movies for kids ever made…
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question of the day: What aspects of widespread pop culture can help save the world?
I was Googling around for some information on the U.K.’s equivalent of the Miranda warning, the caution, for my *Life on Mars* blogging, and I came across a most interesting tidbit from Neal Stephenson’s essay “In the Beginning… Was the Command Line”…
question of the day: What is your preferred way to watch movies, and how often do you actually get to do that?
By that I mean: Perhaps you like watching movies best in a multiplex, but for whatever reasons — the expense, the decline of the multiplex experience, etc — you mostly watch movies on DVD. And so on…
question of the weekend: What does the word ‘schmuck’ mean to you?
The title of *Dinner for Schmucks* has prompted some debate among a few friends of mine, who are astonished that the studio is actually using that word in their title…
question of the day: Do you sit through the credits at the multiplex?
I don’t always sit through all the credits, but the idea that the movie theater employees are mad if I do is outrageous.
question of the day: Is the shutdown of the UK Film Council good or bad for British film?
This week the British government announced the shutdown the UK Film Council. Is the decision tragically naive, or is there reason not to despair?
question of the day: Should ‘Inception’ get a sequel?
Today’s question comes from reader Lorenzo Lamas: Should Inception get a sequel? And I’ll add: What direction would a possible Inception sequel go in? Should we revisit Cobb to see how he’s faring after then end of the film? (I say no, to preserve the unanswered but intriguing questions raised by the ending.) How about … more…
question of the day: Which movies are better than the books they’re based upon?
It’s official: Daniel Craig has been cast as Mikael Blomkvist in the Hollywood English-language production of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I still kinda don’t see the point of remaking the movie so soon — the Swedish-language version is fantastic — but there’s no escaping it now. But it got me thinking about movies … more…
question of the day: What bloggers can or should make the jump to TV, and what would their shows look like?
Are you familiar with the blog Bad Astronomy? It’s where, in part, astronomer Phil Plait dissects how TV and film get the science wrong in their science fiction, and even sometimes in their science “fact,” as when he rips apart alien-abduction and moon-landing-hoax “documentaries.” Now, as Web Newser reports (and as Plait himself posted the … more…
question of the weekend: Do you have a tattoo?
Do you have a tattoo? If you do, what is it and where on your body is it (to whatever degree you feel comfortable revealing this)? How old were you when you got it, and why did you get it? Do you ever regret it? If you don’t, would you consider getting one, and if … more…
