The new film Wanted seems like a Matrix ripoff. But it could be worse. It could be yet another lame Matrix parody.
I haven’t watched The Simpsons regularly in years, but I got a couple of text messages alerting me that last night’s episode, which follows Lisa (whose talent President Skinner assesses equates to “as if Ingmar Bergman and Penny Marshall had a baby), as she makes a documentary called Capturing the Simpsons, and then takes the [...]
Here I propose 5 TV series that quickly need a movie continuation/spin-off instead of, in the future, the inevitable movie remake/adaptation.
January 8, 2008 – 11:27 am
In all seriousness, I hope this isn’t really the reason that Obama is winning in the polls. But it’s an interesting idea to contemplate, no?
December 18, 2007 – 7:51 am
The WGA offers the awards shows another hurdle, Nicole Holofcener makes another movie with Catherine Keener, and New York gets “Simpsonized.”
December 11, 2007 – 1:30 pm
Let’s look at the most critically acclaimed Hollywood hits and see what will be the most obvious and what will be the most embarrassing picks on 2007 year-end lists. I challenge anyone to be ballsy enough to avoid being obscure or predictable and really tell us what they enjoyed this year.
October 5, 2007 – 10:17 am
YouTube blunders, NYFF ambles on, and much more from the week gone by.
October 3, 2007 – 11:51 am
Above: a still from a Simpsons episode, side-by-side with the shot from Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest that inspired it. For 65 additional comparisons between Simpsons images and their cinematic forebears, click here. [via Laughing Squid]
August 21, 2007 – 11:00 am
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Reuters ran a story yesterday on “adlets”, also known as “blinks”, also known as extremely brief audio commercials that radio programmers can sprinkle into blocks of content. It’s a format that seems to be catching on with the studios–Fox has apparently bought a lot of adlet space to promote The Simpsons [...]
Big movie/little movie: The Simpsons movie is picked at by two of the biggest Simpsons fans ever. Ronald Bronstein, one of this year’s “25 filmmakers to watch” talks about his film, Frownland, an ultra-indy flick garnering ardent supporters and adamant haters wherever it plays.
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