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Vanity Fair

Richard Jewell movie review: innocent man, guilty movie

Thu, Dec 12, 2019
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Cluelessly simplistic rendering of a 1990s media injustice ignores all the context in which it happened and demonizes the one journalist who acted professionally. Fails even as a conservative screed.

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A Private War movie review: this is not fake news (LFF 2018)

Tue, Nov 13, 2018
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A moving and important portrait of legendary Times of London foreign correspondent Marie Colvin. We need more movies like this, about fearless, badass women this outrageously good at their vitally necessary work.

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Murder on the Orient Express movie review: strangers on a train

Mon, Nov 06, 2017
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Doubly dated, lacking in humor and subtext, its impressive cast deliberately underutilized, this is little more than an exercise in gorgeous production design.

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question of the day: If Web sites can be sitcoms now — the upcoming Friend Me is about Groupon — what sites should be TV shows next?

Tue, May 15, 2012
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Maybe I Can Has Cheezeburger, featuring cats who break the fourth wall to comment on their own lives? Perhaps Google: Miami, about real-life investigators who hunt down the answers to mundane questions?

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question of the day: How many things can you find wrong with the cover of Vanity Fair’s Hollywood issue?

Fri, Feb 03, 2012
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Too white, too thin, too interchangeable: the traditional cover featuring young talent on the rise always comes under massive scrutiny, and the ritual is now in full swing…

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question of the day: Have we reached a point of cultural stagnation?

Fri, Jan 20, 2012
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We’re due for 90s nostalgia… but I have no idea what that should look like. I figured it was just because I’m old enough to remember the 90s as an adult, but other feel the same way…

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things you need to know: if you are looking for a journalism job, the head of NBC News will be calling you soon!

Tue, Nov 15, 2011
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Chelsea Clinton tells the head of NBC News she wants to work there, and it’s done. Best. Job Interview. Ever!

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question of the day: Can a Hollywood insider be a fair film critic?

Mon, Nov 14, 2011
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I was stunned to learn this weekend that VanityFair.com has hired actor and filmmaker Paul Mazurksy to be its new film critic. WTF?

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what you don’t understand about Twitter; Facebook defriends Roger Ebert; Golden Globes in big trouble; more: leftover links

Sun, Jan 30, 2011
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Plus: Katie Holmes smeared by mean ol’ gossip rags; Syfy picks up Web series The Mercury Men; the Internet stole Obama’s State of the Union address; more…

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the MPAA and male nudity; more battles between TV networks and cable providers; the Oscars race is on; more: leftover links

Sat, Oct 16, 2010
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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…

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