Los Angeles Film Festival: karaoke, Finishing Heaven, party pics
SilverDocs: Alternative American Teens
The Death Squads and The Film Critics
Related: blogging hasn’t cured Peter Bart’s blogophobia.
Videos: Cartoon porn, Cartoon George Carlin, Star Wars meets Princess Bride, Wii Lightsaber, Disaster, Latvian Ghostbusters.
On FilmCouch: The death of George Carlin inspires talk of “life-changing” comedies.
Lists: The Most Critically-Acclaimed Action [...]
A short story by Steven Boone––by a film critic, about film critics, meant exclusively for an audience of film critics.
The New York Times covers a studio’s effort to deemphasize the importance of the New York Times.
Pay no attention to film critics who want to stifle anti-corporate, anti-Hollywood subversion! Instead, pay attention to … um … Vanity Fair?
A Cannes blind item revealed. Plus: ROFLcon and Harvey Korman.
…and one reason why it might be kind of okay.
A day after learning and announcing that his job at Premiere.com had been eliminated, Glenn Kenny has already set up a new personal blog, free of association with Premiere/Hachette. Well, sort of: the subtitle on the TypePad blog is, currently, “Film writer Glenn Kenny’s own bought-and-paid-for-blog, thank you very goddamn much.” The title-title is Some [...]
So often reviews of films like Iron Man, even positive ones, give you the sense that the critics are a bit embarrassed that they’re required to go through the motions of critiquing a Hollywood product for which financial success and pop cultural domination is a foregone conclusion. I’m the first to sympathize with the critical [...]
April 28, 2008 – 12:26 pm
“The ideal is to have your job be something that doesn’t feel like a job, and that was the case for me for years with print criticism. It’s not the case anymore.”
April 24, 2008 – 10:22 am
I woke up this morning to a feed reader full of stories about film criticism, many of them blog posts in response to the latest bit of polemic from Armond White. It’s a prolonged screed against contemporary critics––young, old, print, web––anyone but Armond, essentially. Most of it just reads as noise, and since I’ve decided [...]
