While millions of people saw Bond this weekend, I had an odd little experience of being in an almost empty theater on a Saturday while finally seeing Cloud Atlas. I usually like to see movies during the day to avoid big crowds, but I had figured, being a Saturday, it would be packed and...
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It’s kind of hard to get away from the Olympics right now, even for movie writers. The Olympics are, in some ways, more cinematic than movies are. Nerves, last gasp thrills and lots (and lots) of tears. All the things we love about movies. I was shocked this week to read that women and...
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I’ve been a few steps behind everything this week between setting up a new computer and the beginning of Euro 2012. Every year I bitch and moan about how horrible international football is, and about what a pain in the crack friendlies and qualifiers are (a high percentage of Arsenal players seem to come...
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Of all of the films I’ve been impatiently waiting to see this year, the one I might be the most excited about is a little black and white short film that I can’t even pay to see. I’ll have to pay to see another film (Wreck-It-Ralph), and I’m okay with that. I love that...
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So we found out this week that the endgame to studios taking down all of the screenplay websites online was thay that they want to sell annotated scripts as ebooks filled with extras now. WB got the ball rolling this week with Inside the Script, offering annotated screenplay ebooks of classic films like Casablanca...
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Happy Earth Day. We can still get a few more in before we successfully kill the Earth off I think. Unrelated, the Florida Film Festival comes to a close tonight. This edition has been deemed a success, with films like Renee, Eye of the Hurricane, Turn Me On Dammit, and Monsieur Lazhar are getting...
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Can you hear it? That stomach gurgling sound emanating from the West Coast? Dun, dun, dun, it’s Oscar Night! Now that the Academy’s dirty little secret that it is an overwhelmingly old, white boys club (a secret so closely guarded that you only had to look at the Academy’s website that’s been up for like...
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