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Posted on March 28, 2010
Chloe Sevigny told the AV Club that she thought this past season of Big Love was “Awful.” Today she offered her excuse: she was tired! Also, she invoked the Golden Rule. What does immortal philosophy say about Chloe Sevigny’s behavior?
Last week, Big Love star Chloe Sevigny told the AV Club: “[Big Love] was awful this [...]
Posted on February 7, 2010
Of all the films to unseat Avatar’s domination over the box office, I doubt Dear, John—which I hadn’t even heard of until watching cheeseball Sandy Kenyon trash it on Taxi TV last night—was the frontrunner to do so.
However, the Mighty Blue Dicktails of the Na’vi Tribe were no match for another Nicholas Sparks book about [...]
Posted on November 16, 2009
Sanity is a relative term in the realm of Hollywood directors who generally function on a mental health continuum ranging from borderline OCD cases on the benign end to paranoid schizophrenic megalomaniacs on the deeper end.
On that far side, James Cameron has long sat as Hollywood’s, raging at all within his grasp, building cruise ships [...]
Posted on November 12, 2009
Struggling Alaskan newspapers have come up with a new revenue source that could well become a model for the whole industry: Being paid restitution by a Hollywood studio that used your paper’s name without permission to advertise an alien movie.
Universal decided to promote its movie “Fourth Kind,” about real live actual alien abductions in Alaska [...]
Posted on October 29, 2009
For months, the entertainment press has with its relentless hype all but guaranteed us that This Is It, the Michael Jackson rehearsal documentary would become if not the highest grossing film of all time, certainly one of the top three.
How does one properly cover hype? If you’re an old time news organ, or even if [...]
Posted on October 12, 2009
A decade ago they were the child auteurs who could do no wrong. Wes Anderson and Spike Jonze were not just proclaimed the saviors of the cinema, but of modern civilization as well.
With Rushmore and Being John Malkovitch under their belts, they had finally made the multi-plex safe for The Quirkies, and with that door [...]
Posted on October 3, 2009
The Disney-owned production house named after founders Bob and Harvey Weinsteins’ parents, Miramax, is—like Bob and Harvey’s current shop—facing tough times. But while The Weinstein Company struggles for air, Miramax is being choked out by its corporate parents.
It wasn’t much of a surprise when it was announced that Disney would be “restructuring” Miramax down to [...]
Posted on October 2, 2009
According to CNN and the L.A. Times, the backlash against celebrities supporting Roman Polanski is building, but for the most part, it’s not coming from within Hollywood. Plenty of big names haven’t demanded his release, but they’re not talking, either.
The list of celebrities willing to publicly criticize Polanski is still pretty short, and so far, [...]
Posted on September 2, 2009
Apparently science has discovered the one force in nature that can silence Michael Moore: The Oprah Winfrey Show.
With the premiere of his new film, Capitalism: A Love Story, looming on September 16th at the Toronto Film Festival, normally you’d expect to find Moore filling up every inch of media, shocking the bourgeiouse with his trademark [...]
