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Star Wars According to a 3 Year Old. Clip of the Day.

February 26, 2008 – 12:17 pm

The next Pauline Kael makes her debut on YouTube with a review of a little film called Star Wars.

By Christopher Campbell | Also posted in Clip of the Day, Film Reviews, Humor, Video, sci-fi | Comments (2)

Costume Design By Kanye West

February 20, 2008 – 10:42 am

If FLASHING LIGHTS is a critique of hip-hop misogyny, who’s responsible, Spike Jonze or Kanye West?

By Karina Longworth | Comments (1)

The People vs. George Lucas

February 19, 2008 – 11:25 am

Star Wars love/haters finally get a safe and healthy outlet for their passion. Because the entire internet wasn’t enough.

By Karina Longworth | Also posted in Community, Documentary | Comments (0)

The Suicide Shave

February 12, 2008 – 12:00 pm

A blogger who says she’s planning her own suicide looks to movies for guidelines.

By Karina Longworth | Also posted in Community, Editorial | Comments (2)

Black History Month with Big Media Vandalism

February 8, 2008 – 3:05 pm

Odienator at Big Media Vandalism is publishing one essay per day this month, in honor of “Black History Mumf,” in an attempt, as he puts it, to “explore the movies Black folks love, regardless of how I personally feel about them.” I’m loving this series, even though the fact that I haven’t seen many of [...]

By Karina Longworth | Also posted in Community | Comments (0)

Detroit Free Press Drops Original Film Reviews

January 30, 2008 – 11:00 am

…and it’s news enough to shock Defamer into sincerity.

By Karina Longworth | Also posted in Community | Comments (4)

The Cloverfield Monster Is …

January 28, 2008 – 4:24 pm

To me, it looked like that thing Jeffrey Jones turns into at the end of ‘Howard the Duck’ with parasitic ‘Alien’ facehuggers falling off it. But what was it really?

By Christopher Campbell | Also posted in Hollywood, sci-fi | Comments (2)

The Netflix-Mac Disconnect: Probably Apple’s Fault

January 10, 2008 – 3:00 pm

If you, like me, are both a Mac user and a Netflix user, then the fact that the latter’s Watch Instantly movie streaming service is incompatible with the former’s devices is probably one of the banes of your existence (unless you have a life beyond movies, and your computer, and watching movies on your computer. [...]

By Karina Longworth | Also posted in Technology & Web | Comments (15)

National Treasure: Smarter than I’m Not There?

January 10, 2008 – 9:46 am

“My colleagues, students, and wife think I’m nuts to like National Treasure,” admits master film historian David Bordwell. He then launches into an extremely compelling defense of why the Jerry Bruckheimer franchise is “more informative about American history than Fahrenheit 9/11. More brain-teasing, and far more enjoyable, than I’m Not There,” and, perhaps most crucially, [...]

By Karina Longworth | Also posted in Hollywood | Comments (2)

2007 and the Death of the Auteur

December 31, 2007 – 9:48 am

With one day left in the year, let’s make sure to beat that “Bergman and Antonioni were the last of the Great Film Auteurs” dead horse one last time.

By Karina Longworth | Also posted in Editorial | Comments (1)