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The Princess and the Frog did not do as well at the worldwide box office as Disney expected, and it thinks it knows why. As the Los Angeles Times blog Hero Complex puts it so succinctly: Boys didn’t want to see a movie with “princess” in the title. It’s an old argument, and one we’ve … more…
I’ve been meaning to write about this for a couple of weeks, since the news broke: Shout! Factory will be releasing Max Headroom on DVD. Finally! Don’t go looking to preorder the set, though: it’ll be a while before we see anything. From the Shout! Factory press release: Production has begun to develop a wide … more…
My Week in Women column this week features a video in which 82 female filmmakers discuss what kind of film they’d make with an unlimited budget. It got me thinking about a script that I’ve been thinking about writing for years, a true story that was coincidentally in the news this week. I’ll repeat myself … more…
What chain restaurant serves the worst food? One of the worst meals I’ve ever had in my life was in an Olive Garden. I generally try to avoid all fast food and chain restaurants, but I was traveling and I was hungry and options were limited. Now, I know better that sometimes, it’s preferrable to … more…
Echoing a question that Jezebel asked earlier this week: Is geek culture female friendly? The answer, whatever it may be, goes well beyond whether there are lots of women at science fiction conventions (as was pointed out by commenters in this recent thread about how many men are astonished to learn that a woman likes … more…
I was flipping around the TV last night and came across a rerun of Bones, which is a show that I usually never watch, but I left this episode on because Loren Dean was in it. (He has an infrequently recurring role as Bones’ brother.) It seemed like, in the late 1990s, that he was … more…
I was baffled by all those who took exception to Avatar on the basis of its somehow being anticapitalist, antimilitary, antiscience, and — oh noes! — anti-American. (See here and here, if you want to be baffled too.) It seemed to me that these objectors were saying that destruction and bigotry and horror and selfishness … more…
Someone it had escaped my notice that a bunch of historical figures are in the process of getting rebooted as movie action heroes, often with supernatural elements tossed. Seen at Cinematical last week: In an age where we lack action heroes and recognition factor is key for franchiseability (a new made-up word), Hollywood is turning … more…
Sci Fi Wire ran a piece recently about “the secret code names of 37 sci-fi blockbuster films” — which sounds cooler than it actually is. I thought it would be about the original titles for great films that we now love, and hey, wouldn’t it be funny/silly/stupid if we couldn’t stop talking about that classic … more…
Radio idiot Howard Stern engaged in some vile fatbashing of Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe the other day — I won’t repeat it, but you can listen here, if you must — the upshot of which is that she’s kidding herself in thinking she’s ever gonna get another role after Precious. She already has gotten more … more…
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