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Posted on February 5, 2010
Indie films have become the lost children of Hollywood in recent years. Author Edward Jay Epstein explains why Hollywood is abandoning the indie movie business in favor of merchandisable CGI spectacles like Avatar.
If you are a producer of indie movies, the great sucking sound you may be hearing is Avatar draining money from your future [...]
Posted on February 2, 2010
Lost is so confusing! But not that confusing. Here I will try to write, from memory without using any wikis, fan sites or Google, everything important that’s happened on the show up to tonight’s final-season premiere. Wish me luck.
A guy named Jack wakes up in the middle of the jungle wearing a suit and doesn’t [...]
Posted on February 1, 2010
Tomorrow is Gay Christmas Eve, with Oscar nominations announced in the ayem, setting hearts aflutter and sending visions of sugarplum fairy Hugh Jackman dancing through heads. We have a good idea of who will be nominated, but who should be?
Best Supporting Actress — Catherine O’Hara, Where the Wild Things Are
No one does quirky menace quite [...]
Posted on February 1, 2010
This year brought some rather tasteful performances. It was decent this year…
Surprisingly, Beyonce gave a pretty compelling performance. She performed a medley of her “If I Were a Boy” mixed with with Alanis Morissette’s “You Oughta Know.” A little soft mixed with a little hard. Loved it. She [...]
Posted on January 28, 2010
It is with heavy hand and heavy heart that we inform you today of the death of Miramax. The once-proud indie studio was 31 years old.
Though it had dwindled a bit in recent years, the studio built by Harvey and Bob Weinstein (named after their parents, Miriam and Max) will stand in history as the [...]
Posted on January 27, 2010
ABC finally euthanize Ugly Betty. It used to be one of the best shows on TV, but the network system’s intractable greed and antiquated system ruined it. Can’t we have term limits for TV series?
Scooplet! A tipster tells us even though their show was getting tired (see below), the cancellation came as a surprise to [...]
Posted on January 22, 2010
Last night on the Housewives, daughters were in peril. Friends were in peril. It’s a dangerous time to be a Housewife in Southern California — what was once easy and meaningless is now fraught with… slightly less ease.
There’s really only one thing you can do in such tough times: Play tennis. Since the French [...]
Posted on January 15, 2010
The Golden Globe Awards, Hollywood’s second-goldenest night (and certainly its globiest), will go down on live TV this Sunday night. Who will win? Who should win?? After the jump we’ll break down the big categories to figure it all out.
Because this is all just a preamble to the Oscars (nominations come out on February 2nd [...]
Posted on January 13, 2010
Ari Emanuel has fashioned himself as the most powerful agent in Hollywood since Mike Ovitz’s terrible reign. And as Conan O’Brien’s prime defender against NBC, he’s found himself in the exact same position as the zen warrior of Beverly Hills.
Only, he’s not doing as good of a job as he could have, had he just [...]
Posted on January 11, 2010
The much-anticipated fourth season of Big Love bloomed strangely last night — a messy, deliriously overstuffed smear of stories that left us anticipating a season rife with the show’s usual eerie, lunar menace. There will also be exotic birds!
That was probably the most gonzo bit of last night, right? Not just Bill’s mom and [...]
