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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 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 4, 2010
Well gang, we did it. We got through a month of auditions episodes. Many of us died, even more of us are injured or dying, but we’ve struggled across the finish line and next week will taste glorious Hollywood.
Last night’s episode wasn’t about anything, so there’s not much to say. Basically it was the [...]
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
With cable TV rerunning our favorite movies at a vicious rate, it is hard to determine whether or not one should give up two hours to the cable gods. Finally, we have a handy formula to help us decide.
Between TBS, TNT, Spike, Bravo, the Hallmark Channel, and every other basic cable outlet padding out their [...]
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 January 30, 2010
Nick McDonell was 17 when he wrote 2002’s Twelve, about New York’s richkids experimenting with new superdrugs. Now it’s a Sundance movie, by Joel Schumacher, starring Chace Crawford, Emma Roberts, Keifer Sutherland, and 50 Cent. And it sucks. Terribly.
Via Page Six this morning:
Post critic Kyle Smith reports from Sundance that audiences were giggling at the [...]
Continue ReadingPosted 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 26, 2010
Another day, another piece of news about broadcast television’s slow, painful death rattle. It’s no longer just primetime that’s hemorrhaging: the big old networks are fighting battles in daytime, in news, and royally fucking up their once-sturdy late night empires.
Broadcast’s grand formula has always been straight-through-the-day coverage, with morning shows giving way to daytime chatters [...]
Posted on January 25, 2010
The fourth season of HBO’s social drama just keeps getting bigger. Last night we saw a trip across the country, an accident that brought two fringe cultures together (sort of), and a wild and surprising kiss.
The episode, written with daring aplomb by playwright (and staff writer) Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, showed its four main characters venturing [...]
