Gold Derby (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Now that a new derby season has begun, my L.A. Times colleague Patrick Goldstein, as usual, confuses it with hunting season and is already taking potshots at other Oscarologists. On Wednesday he blasted away at some pundits who offered their best-picture views to Gold Derby, adding, "Call me old-fashioned, but this is another good reason why all of our nutty Oscar pundits...
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
L.A. Times columnist Patrick Goldstein echoed my own dismay when he criticized Envelope/Gold Derby columnist Tom O'Neil on 11.2 for posting an anonymous Oscar voter's opinion that This Is It, the Michael Jackson documentary, will grab an Oscar Best Picture nomination. Engaging as the film is, the voter's claim is absurd given the obvious fact that This Is It (a) is first...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Patrick Goldstein: Let's be honest. Is there really anyone who is up in arms over Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story being left off the Academy's 15-title short list for the best feature documentary? In fact, I would argue that when it comes to a snub of a much-ballyhooed film, the Academy has never managed to make more people happier."...
Premium Hollywood (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Today, much of the confusion appears to be ethnic. * Patrick Goldstein presents the U.K. based “Case of the Vanishing and Less Famous African-Americans.” * Universal is “circling” a director of commercials named Carl Erik Rinsch for a shot at the big time for a new action flick, writes Michael Fleming. Rinsch, who I never heard of [...]
西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... of collapse" — 'Collapse' is the strangest doomsday film yet . Pooh-poohs reviewer Patrick Goldstein, "If you ever thought it was impossible to top Beck's over-the-top fantasies, listen to Ruppert who says that 'what I see now is the end of a paradigm that is as cataclysmic as the asteroid event that killed almost all the life on Earth, and certainly the dinosaurs.'"...
西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Patrick Goldstein reviews the documentary that "features a spellbindingly weird one-man monologue by Michael Ruppert, a former LAPD officer and investigative journalist who believes that we are about to run out of oil, an event sure to plunge the world into a state of collapse" — 'Collapse' is the strangest doomsday film yet . The reviewer seems to be a bit out of his...
Gold Derby (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
... Diesel is here!" RELATED POSTS Will Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin be winning Oscars hosts? Gold Derby nuggets: Hugh Jackman hails new Oscar hosts | 'A Town Called Panic' calms Oscars toon race | Yea or nay to last-minute Oscar entries? Why does Patrick Goldstein continue to bash...
Verum Serum (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
At Big Hollywood, John Nolte responds to this post by Patrick Goldstein of the LA Times. Nolte correctly points out that a new $150 million biopic of Mohammed — which promises not to show its main character out of respect for Muslim religious taboos — is very different from the treatment Christianity receives in Hollywood. [...]
Althouse (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Such are the nominees this year for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Patrick Goldstein moans: It's pretty pathetic when you consider that you can vote for the Chantels and Darlene Love, but not for Linda Ronstadt, Steve Miller, Chicago, Rush, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper, Journey, Dire Straits or Stevie Ray Vaughan, just to name a few of the ineligible worthies... Those of us who are actual...
Gold Derby (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Like lots of Quentin Tarantino flicks, "Inglourious Basterds" has so many outrageous, quirky elements that it could easily qualify in the comedy categories at the Golden Globes, but the Weinstein Co. will opt for drama. Ultimate classification will be determined by the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.'s qualification committee, but it usually defers to what Harvey and Quentin want. Both...
Gold Derby (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... in – our forum moderators Will Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin be winning Oscars hosts? Why does Patrick Goldstein continue to bash Oscar bloggers? Why Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin to host Oscars? Well, it's complicated. Gold Derby nuggets: 'Star Trek' best cast movie | 'Doctor Who' tries legal series | 'An Education' from director Lone Scherfig Gold Derby nuggets:...
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
... this morning. Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal in Jeff Cooper's Crazy Heart. L.A. Times columnist Patrick Goldstein reported yesterday that the film, directed and written by Jeff Cooper, is opening limited in...
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Now that it’s November the preparations for the next Academy Awards have begun in earnest, both at the show production and industry campaigning levels. Most notable is, of course, the announcement that next year’s event would be co-hosted by Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin. Martin has hosted the Oscars before (and I think did a great job) while Baldwin is a newcomer and, as Patrick Goldstein...
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Responding to a fierce putdown of the late Robert Altman by Time's Richard Schickel in a review of Mitchell Zuckoff's Robert Altman: The Oral Biography, director Alan Rudolph has written an equally stern rebuke. Earlier today L.A. Times columnist Patrick Goldstein posted the Rudolph letter and laid into Schickel also. "The power of a major artist is that he or she is a force, standard,...
The IFC Blog (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Since "Paranormal Activity" stomped all over "Saw VI" at the box office this weekend, it was only a matter of time before someone wrote about how creativity and risk-taking are rewarding, shaking up Hollywood and reminding executives not to write off the audience. So thank you, Patrick Goldstein, for making my job easier. "It's yet another reminder for cynical...
