Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Alexa from Pop Elegantiarum here to share a turkey for Thanksgiving. When Vibes arrived in theaters in 1988, I was predisposed to like it for a number of reasons. First, there was Cyndi Lauper in her first starring role. In the great Madonna/Cyndi debate of the mid-80s, I was firmly in Cyndi's camp . (Keep in mind that I was 12 years old at the time.) Second was her co-star, Jeff Goldblum , on whom...
Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
What happens when people take the law into their own hands? Varyingly violent movies of violently varying quality - but here are some of the better ones.
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
When false reports of the deaths of Lady Gaga or Jeff Goldblum get blasted all over Twitter, it becomes a trend piece in The New York Times . "The Internet Who Cried Wolf" serves as a gentle reminder that not everything you read online is true. The media equivalent of course, would be Anna Wintour 's departure from Vogue . There have been so many rumors, sworn testimonies and first-hand...
The Inquisitr (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Three days, three fake celebrity deaths with the latest one sure to upset teenage girls: a rumor that the Jonas Brothers are dead. The Jonas Brothers dead story takes us across to the Pacific, where according to a fake FoxNews report currently doing the rounds, the Brothers died in a plane crash on the morning of [...]
Expedient MEANS (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
As a technology optimist I am almost always in favor of pushing the art and science of the web further. As we know the current period is hyper-focused on Social Media. We hear a lot of discussion about the new era of personal journalism. The news is now frequently reported by regular citizens who are [...]
Daggle: Danny Sullivan's Blog (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Ahead of next week’s FTC workshop on journalism and the internet , I gave an informal briefing to several people from the FTC about the differences between how search engines, aggregators and news blogs all gather content automatically and through human editing. They seemed to find it useful, so I thought I’d share it more widely and expand it a bit. Search Engines Most major search engines...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
International News: Cologne site to focus on English-language pics -- Berlin-based Senator Ent. is opening an international production arm in Cologne to focus on English-language films.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
"I have never believed that everything happens for a reason. But I do feel very strongly that everything happens so that it can be turned into a column." - Gail Collins Ah, such wisdom. I am often baffled when I can't get an idea for a column, because so much...
Entropical Paradise (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
First of all, nobody asked me to vote. Secondly, no one nominated me, either. That's why it is no shock to me that Johnny Depp was named this year's "Sexiest Man Alive." Leaving aside, for the moment, all further discussions of the polling process, there is still a matter of that modifier: Alive. Just how would Mister Depp stack up against a phalanx of dead male celebrities? Keeping in mind...
A Man With A Ph.D. (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
by e-strategyblog.com 2012: Or, How the New Hollywood Loves Scientists, Even Though It Still Hates Plausibility [Via The Intersection] Last night I was privileged to attend a screening of the latest catastrohpic sci-fi blockbuster, Roland Emmerich’s 2012. And let me say, if you’re like me and love action-packed Hollywood world-enders, then you don’t want to miss this [...]
io9 (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
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Cinematical (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Are your pitchforks nice and sharp? Torches soaked in kerosene, ready to burn my house down? If not, I'll wait. Ready? Good, because I'm about to give you five reasons why you should see New Moon , which you may not be aware is the the latest entry in the Twilight Saga . Some background, so you know where my allegiances lay. I've never read a single word of any of the Twilight books. I found the first...
High-Def Digest: All Hig (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Having already destroyed large portions of the world (and many of the most famous landmarks) with 'Independence Day,' the team of producer/co-writer Dean Devlin and co-writer/director Roland Emmerich...
Defamer (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
After a flurry of rumors and counter-rumors, it appears that Ken Ober, the former host of MTV's Remote Control, has in fact passed away at age 52. In his passing, Ober broke a great internet...
Pajiba (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Mister Frost is one of those movies that I was completely unprepared for. To say that it's underappreciated is to understate things draastically -- few people have ever heard of it, and yet it has a stellar cast (including one...
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