question of the day: What’s your Super Bowl postshow analysis?
Did you have a favorite ad? What was your reaction to Madonna’s halftime show? Oh, and apparently, there was some football. Was it an entertaining game?
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question of the day: Is “the gaze” (male or female) disempowering for the gazee?
Twilight has ruined vampires, and it’s all women’s fault, doncha know, with our gazing at Edward Cullen…
question of the day: Has there been a person who has powerfully influenced your love of movies or TV?
Salon film critic Matt Zoller Seitz offers a lovely tribute to his wife, who died five years ago, and powerfully influenced his love of movies (and music). It makes me sad to realize that I haven’t had anyone like this in my life…
must reads: “R.I.P., the movie camera: 1888-2011”
Matt Zoller Seitz at Salon laments the death of the analog film movie camera…
Facebook smears Google; Disney trademarks “Seal Team 6”; men made ‘Bridesmaids’ suck; more: leftover links
Plus: Johnny Depp can’t see his own 3D POTC movie; Woody Allen sorta down on his own movies; why did Mel Gibson’s The Beaver flop?
question of the weekend: Is it okay to celebrate the death of an enemy?
In a way, I’m glad I wasn’t in New York for the news of the death of Osama bin Laden last weekend. The chanting and the flag waving and the celebrating was so distasteful just watching it on TV from across th Atlantic…
question of the day: Why are Christian movies so awful?
Why should a subset of American culture that dominates the way evangelical Christianity does be so insecure and defensive in its entertainments?
question of the day: Will future generations understand ‘The Simpsons’?
Will we have future scholars footnoting The Simpsons to explain why Kent Brockman and Rainier Wolfcastle are funny?
question of the day: What bits of pop culture are you feeling “iffy” about lately?
A new opera about Anna Nicole Smith just debuted in London. Posh Spice will be attending the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. But that’s hardly the worst of it, right?
what he said: Glenn Greenwald at Salon…
…about the kerfuffle CNN’s Anderson Cooper caused among (some) U.S. media watchers after he called Egyptian politicians liars…
