Comcast’s plans to fight piracy may change how we watch what we download, new Doctor Who’s post-punk music past is revealed, Hollywood looks to turn more movies into Broadway shows, Donna Bowman muses on how to watch “Breaking Bad” and iTunes makes some old Johnny Carson excerpts available.
Ryan
Amon talks about the YouTube video that led to his first feature
film score, in this week’s “Elysium,” directed by Neill Blomkamp
(“District 9”) and starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster.
Screenwriter Thunder Levin discusses “Sharknado,” the SyFy Channel movie that lit Twitter on fire.
The new science fiction action film from Bong Joon-ho (“The Host,” “Mother”) defies the odds by turning yet another dystopian future into something thrilling and distinctive.
Hitchcock’s silent films have been lovingly restored, and they’re touring selected cities. If you’re anywhere near one of these cities, it’s worth the trip to see as many as you can.
Seven women writers talk about their problems with “male feminism”; Wikipedia blocks U.S. senate for “vandalism” of Edward Snowden’s page; Millikin professor killed family 46 years ago, and now we’re finding out; what it’s like to have your movie taken away from you by Harvey Weinstein; David Edelstein on ‘The Spectacular Now’; Matt Damon on the state of modern Hollywood; David Lynch on “Twin Peaks”
Shooting the final dance contest in “Saturday Night Fever”; John Boorman’s unmade “Lord of the Rings”; Wikipedia founder brands the U.K.’s new anti-online-porn plan ‘ridiculous’; how the American suburbs became a hotbed of increasing poverty; Red Sox owner buys Boston Globe; photo of the NSA’s massive data-harvesting facility in Utah; Chris Doyle talkes about the art of the cinematographer.
Gerardo Valero offers an in-depth review of “From Russia with Love.”
Katherine Tulich talks to Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley, the stars of “The Spectacular Now.”
In the British hit television series “Broadchurch,” finally arriving
stateside, death is far
more than just a plot device. It is an event that shatters history. Rarely has the
ripple effect of an unspeakable murder been more deftly
and brilliantly captured than it is in this television event.
The negative influence of “The Godfather”; how “the tease” has developed a central role in pop culture; America’s de-newspaperization; things that aren’t feminism; siding with the victim in horror films.
Cheryl Boone Isaacs has been elected to run the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.
Nick Schager ponders the new crop of action directors, who bring ‘serious film’ cred to the genre, but can’t seem to show personality where it counts the most.
Eileen Brennan dies; Russia’s film industry and The Associated Press in decline; defending Scott Simon’s running tweet of his mother’s passing; over-used poster clichés.
Is the director’s explicit “The Canyons” the nadir of his career—or its climax?
Today we launch our new Twitter account, @ebertvoices.
Our new Twitter account is now active. Let me explain our thinking about the new Twitter feed.
