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Bad Voodoo’s War. Clip of the Day.

April 18, 2008 – 2:45 pm

Deborah Scranton’s follow-up to THE WAR TAPES is watchable online.

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Documentary, Video | Comments (2)

Fat Suits and Freedom Fries: SpoutBlog Week in Review

April 4, 2008 – 6:11 pm

The Death of Film Criticism, Chapter Twelve.
By the time you read this, that Roman Polanski doc will already have completed its secret Oscar qualifying run.
Movies that make Yankee fans mad.
Slavoj Zizek + Telluride
On our podcast: Iraq fatigue and Wholphin.
Josh Hartnett stars in the movie no one on the internet is willing to admit that they’re [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Week in Review | Comments (0)

Trade Roughage 08/31/08

March 31, 2008 – 12:01 pm

As expected, 21 came in at the top of the box office this weekend, with a not-huge $23.7 million. And as hoped for by many––maybe even Paramount, who opened the thing on suspiciously few screens––Stop-Loss tanked with $4.5 million.
Just three months before their mutual contract expires, the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Hollywood | Comments (0)

New in Theaters: Stop-Loss, 21, Fatboy

March 28, 2008 – 2:46 pm

I’m going to spend about four hours this weekend with my celebrity boyfriend, Young Albert Brooks, at Anthology Film Archives‘ double feature of two of Brooks’ early, still super-relevant films, Modern Romance and Real Life (see above). But if you’re not lucky enough to be in New York, there are three films opening in general [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Film Reviews, Hollywood | Comments (0)

Iraq Films Saying Nothing New

March 24, 2008 – 10:46 am

In this longish but fascinating video companion piece to his Atlantic story on how Hollywood has reverted to 70s-style dialectics in order to talk about current global conflicts, Ross Douthat explains why the recent wave of Iraq movies haven’t connected with critics or audiences. The problem, in part, is that “Hollywood hasn’t found anything new [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Hollywood, Politics | Comments (3)