Since it began to air ten weeks ago, I’ve been trying hard to avoid all of the Twitter chatter about The Newsroom. The West Wing aside, Sorkin is a notoriously slow starter, and one of the (many) problems with Studio 60 was that both the viewers and the network had largely written it off...
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Instead of a preamble this week, I offer a plea: SUPPORT THIS GUY! Former Creative Screenwriting editor Jeff Goldsmith has a new project out, the bi-monthly iPad screenwriting magazine, Backstory. The first issue, containing full screenplays by Richard Kelly and Rex Pickett, is free. Single issues are $4.99 and yearly subs are $24.99. I...
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The Artist will win this award tomorrow night. Some people will be happy, some people will be livid. Most people will shrug because they haven’t seen it. I will probably shrug even though I have seen it. I liked it as a film. It was fun and whimsical and, most importantly for a gimmick film,...
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Now I know why all of those preambles during awards shows are so boring. There is so little to say that hasn’t been said 15 earlier during the award season (or blogging) that it’s simple to just fall back on cliche and give it some sort of “timeless” riff, like Howard Beale in reverse....
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Over the last couple of years, kind of going back to the beginning of the early aughts, one or sometimes both of the two the screenplay categories has become almost the defacto “Best Arthouse Movie” award. When you look back to 2000, you’ll see the two big “indie” films of the year won, Traffic...
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My biggest gripe of the week is that Disney hasn’t released Studio Ghibli’s latest film, The Secret World of Arrietty, with its original Japanese language track at all this time around. I know the widest roll out is always for the the English dub, which they put a lot money into, and I’m fine...
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Let’s see how horribly wrong I can get this, shall we? Now, the most obvious part about this whole thing is that the only reason to watch the Golden Globes this year is to see celebrities squirm in their seats, hoping that Ricky Gervais’ caustic-comedic spotlight doesn’t touch on them. Otherwise, it’s the most...
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I woke up with a pretty bad sore throat this morning, so just a quick bit before I go back to bed. I must ask: HOW THE HELL DID THIS TAKE A YEAR AND HALF TO BE FOUND? Grantland came up with a link to the full original Karate Kid, shot on video tape with its...
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So, yeah, the week was mostly dominated by the death of Apple co-founder and Pixar Studios godfather Steve Jobs. And rightly so. As Bill Maher pointed out on his show on Friday, in this ridiculously divisive world where everyone hates everyone, Jobs was one of the few people liked by both the Left and...
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So, Netflix had itself another nightmare week this week when it announced that, not only were they not going to address customer complaints and cancellations, they were going to sweep them completely under the rug and pretend they didn’t exist by splitting the company into two separate, completely de-integrated companies. But they’re keeping the...
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‘Arrested Development’ success in keeping the family together Film & DVD: Don’t let early reviews of the new Netflix episodes ruin it for you By Ashley Belanger 6/19/2013
Marco Rubio’s gay panic News: Senator sticks foot in mouth when discussing gay immigrants By Billy Manes 6/19/2013
Food Truck Wars News: Some say city’s temporary use permit for mobile food vendors is unfair By Erin Sullivan 6/19/2013
Deafheaven’s ‘Sunbather’ is basically the new black Music: The black metal band basks in the brightness of their sophomore album By Robert Miller 6/19/2013
Another Round Food & Drink: Diversified drinking in Mills 50 By Aimee Vitek 6/19/2013
‘Monsters University’ almost as good as the superb original Film & DVD: Pixar’s prequel to Monsters, Inc. is monstrously magical By Cameron Meier 6/19/2013