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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 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 December 5, 2009
Hard to see anyone knocking the teenage vampires off their perch this weekend — especially as Up In the Air is only in limited release — but a few old stalwarts are reporting for duty and ready to try.
UP IN THE AIR
The Story: A romantic tale of what happens when a frequent-flying corporate downsizing consultant [...]
Posted on December 1, 2009
If ever a contest was needing shaking up, it is this year’s Oscar derby which has a serious dearth of beloved, breakout movies on the board. But today’s Spirit Award nominations did only kept the chessboard upright, stalemate intact.
Among the stations of the cross in America’s long slog to Oscar night, the announcement of the [...]
Posted on November 13, 2009
Buyer beware this weekend at the box office. There’s a little something targeted for everybody out there, but every film comes with some major red flags.
2012
The Story: As per Mayan predictions, the world ends a few years from now and John Cusack leads a band of survivors who try to figure out just what to [...]
Posted on October 29, 2009
It’s hard to believe that there is actually an inventor of product placement; like swine flu, it always seemed just nature’s dark side. But someone thinks he did in fact invent it and is willing to sue to prove it.
The brilliant graphic illustration above is a very scientific illustration of just how to turn watchable [...]
Posted on October 29, 2009
As always, I save the hottest for last. This is the always ravishing Jenna Lee of FBN filling in on America’s Newsroom on the main FOX News network. I’d bet the farm that in 5 years, Jenna Lee is the lead morning anchor for a major news network. Her potential is unlimited.
Million dollar smile,
Screencaps courtesy [...]
Posted on October 15, 2009
For a century now, the world has flocked to California’s shores in search of that golden promise of no-questions-asked, no-eyebrows-raised, plastic surgery on demand. But thanks to one flailing Governor, the sun has now set on that dream.
The newly signed law makes it mandatory for patients to get health checks before undergoing cosmetic surgery. Imagine [...]
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 9, 2009
Project Runway is all about vision and delusion. The vision to make something old into something new. The delusion that the concept is not borrowed and blue. The vision to dress like Cher, the delusion—well, that’s a delusion.
Yes, we have a bunch of divorced brides on last night, and they wanted to turn their wedding [...]
