I’m crushed…

…to discover that I’ve been deleted from Wikipedia. The editors’ objections would also seem to apply to James Berardinelli and The Filthy Critic. I wonder why they get to stay and I get the boot… Oh, I get it: I’ve never been mentioned by Roger Ebert. And I don’t rate movies by extending my middle … more…

question of the day: If ‘Variety’ doesn’t see any future in film criticism, is there any hope for it?

I’ve been feeling very, very depressed lately about the prospects of ever making anything like a reasonable living at this film criticism game. And this shocking news did not help: On Monday, Variety, the legendary Hollywood trade publication, laid off its chief film critic, Todd McCarthy. Editor Tim Gray, in a memo to Variety staffers, … more…

my week at the movies: ‘Gentlemen Broncos,’ ‘Michael Jackson’s This Is It,’ ‘Creation,’ ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox,’ ‘The Fourth Kind,’ ‘Pirate Radio’ (aka ‘The Boat That Rocked’), ‘Collapse’

Busy, busy week. And awards season hasn’t quite hit yet (though screeners are starting to come). It’s gonna be a crazy couple months… Most hilarious title ever? Gentlemen Broncos (opens in the U.S. on October 30; no U.K. release date has been announced) looks to be a hoot… and I do really like Jared Hess’s … more…

question of the day: Is Armond White a troll?

So, Armond White of the New York Press wrote a negative review of District 9. No biggie: not everyone loves the same movies, and there’re always gonna be a few critics who buck trends and revile a film that almost everyone else, to varying degrees, loves. The thing is, fans have been noticing that White … more…