The Post movie review: printing truth to power
Crackles with life and energy, depicting a grand adventure in journalism from almost half a century ago with vigor, suspense, and an urgent relevance for today.
Washington Post
curated: LA, NYC, Boston and Nat’l film critics boycott Disney films in year-end awards
The relationship between the studios and critics has always been a contentious one, for obvious reasons, but what might have been previously called a cold war has hotted up this year…
Kill the Messenger movie review: all the news that’s fit to quash
A passionate and intense drama — fueled by a fierce Jeremy Renner — that furiously underscores the problem of lickspittle corporate “journalism.”
this is why Where Are the Women? is so necessary
Yet more solid proof of a major problem with how women are represented onscreen. Not that we needed it… [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Lee Daniels’ The Butler (aka The Butler) review: civil-rights servant
A deeply moving melodrama about a subtly subversive black butler at the heart of the White House. You will need Kleenex.
this is the Lianne Spiderbaby piece that Bleeding Cool posted and then scrubbed
There’s a very small window of opportunity when something like this can be posted and be relevant, and we’re really already past that point. Still, I promised you all that I would share it if Bleeding Cool wouldn’t, so here it is.
must we resign ourselves to living in a total-surveillance state?
I don’t want to think this is the case, but when even the Constitutional scholar U.S. President is okay with it, I’m not seeing any other options…
question of the day: What moment of television during your lifetime has been the most dramatic, or had the most impact on you?
Mine is definitely 9/11, followed closely by the Challenger explosion. Both of those events had me riveted to the television for days and made me feel personally impacted…
Titanic 3D movie review: a human story
I had just begun my career as a film critic when Titanic was first released in late 1997. So I missed it, back then, what it was about James Cameron’s magnificent movie that was (and still is) so extraordinary.
watch it: “Kony 2012”
So here we have a video that hasn’t just gone viral, it has inspired a torrent of rage because it has gone viral…
