even The New York Times has given up on quality film journalism
Two well-off white men on class warfare, what’s good for women in Hollywood, and — most importantly — some movies they haven’t even seen yet.
Salon
do you want your ISP to block porn and other “objectionable” content automatically?
Would you be embarrassed to call up your ISP and ask to opt-out, for the filter to be turned off? What other material would you worry would get caught up in such a filter?
my GenX midlife crisis
I am having a midlife crisis because I’m stubborn that way, and because the best way to get me to do something has often been to tell me, “That’s just for boys.”
Edward Snowden: traitor or hero?
Or maybe he’s just a pawn, or a CIA puppet, or playing some other role that makes him complicit in an enormous bit of propaganda or security theater…
QOTD: What did you love and hate about the Oscars?
Seth MacFarlane sang about boobs, but Argo won Best Picture — yay! Meanwhile Joaquin Phoenix is not amused…
QOTD: Has pop culture given us an unrealistic idea of what a police state looks like?
While many people would likely agree that films such as 1984 and Brazil are horrifying depictions of police states — and they are — relatively few people seem bothered by the realities we’re living with today…
question of the day: Is our storytelling culture tyrannized by the “happy ending”?
Audience once embraced tragedy as readily as the happy ending. So what happened? How and why did this change?
Justin Timberlake, who played that Napster guy in that Facebook movie, is now promoting the new Myspace (and other adventures in social networking)
Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
question of the weekend: Do you have trouble being alone?
If you do, how do you cope with it? If you don’t, do you find that people are surprised to learn that about you?
