question of the day: O Hollywood, where art thou?
Does Hollywood truly intend to be more creative, more original… or is this just a clever new marketing tactic?
Social Network
Alliance of Women Film Journalists 2010 EDA Awards nominees
The AWFJ is one of the critics’ groups I belong to; my input helped determine these nominees, and I will vote in the final balloting to narrow it down to the winners. I still have to watch a few of these nominees…
Online Film Critics Society 2010 Award nominees
The OFCS is one of the critics’ groups I belong to; my input helped determine these nominees, and I will vote in the final balloting to narrow it down to the winners. I still have to watch a few of these nominees…
question of the day: Is Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg really the Person of the Year 2010?
In a busy news year with lots of major stories impacting the world — from the BP spill to Wikileaks to Afghanistan officially becoming the longest war in American history — does Time’s choice make sense?
kids movies crash and burn, grownup movies go long
I can’t remember another weekend like this past one at the box office, which couldn’t be a clearer indication of the difference between how movies aimed at teenagers and very young adults play compared to how movies with more sophisticated appeal do. Look at this…
how ‘Caprica’ should end; why Roger Ebert hates lists; what the frak is Roland Emmerich up to?; more: leftover links
And: John Landis disses Inception; Foursquare in space; Benedict Cumberbatch is a monster; more…
the MPAA and male nudity; more battles between TV networks and cable providers; the Oscars race is on; more: leftover links
Plus: Javier Bardem to star in Chilean mine movie; Matt Damon not to star in the next Bourne movie; Napoleon Dynamite and How to Train Your Dragon going to TV; lots more…
Stephen Fry is Mycroft Holmes; Emma Stone is Gwen Stacy; Armie Hammer is NOT the Winklevi (but he kinda is); more: leftover links
Plus, Avatar sex toys, Cory Doctorow on the real cost of free, how the rich buy journalists, and more.
Catfish (review)
The ambitions that Mark Zuckerberg had for Facebook — at least what we see of them in The Social Network — seem so small and sad and deeply ungrand next to the reality of how life on Facebook plays out a mere few years later in the profoundly poignant Catfish.
um, what? ‘Social Network’ is elitist?
‘Left coast, right coast, and a smidge of Chicago only. The rest of the country could care less,’ says a studio exec about who came out to see the Fincher Facebook flick. Huh?
