Thumbnails 11/15/2013
A less kind and gentle Nora Ephron; Ira Sachs’ favorite movies about love; Google Glass in film schools; Marlon Brando as cinema’s Raging Bull; the impossibility of being literal.
Features
Thumbnails 11/14/2013
The class gap caused by lack of Internet access; Andy Kaufman may be alive; Weinstein Co. wins MPAA appeal; “Carlito’s Way” appreciation; Dunham and Kaling’s brass tacks.
Thumbnails 11/13/2013
How to talk about Garth Risk Hallberg’s $2 million book deal; the world’s greatest criminologist; Oscar and the Bechdel test; 20 normal things Simpsons fans can’t hear without laughing; “Star Wars” Kid speaks out, 10 years later.
Thumbnails 11/12/2013
Susan Sontag on high and low culture; PG-13 movies have more gun violence than R movies; New York City in the ’80s; how upfront should Christian artists be about missionary aspects in their art?
Thumbnails 11/11/2013
What “Berkeley” teaches us; the latest Cruise kerfuffle; how selling out saved indie rock; SpongeBob SquarePants goes both ways; we are all plagiarists.
Fascination with Kennedy Assassination Fuels Hours of Anniversary Programming
The fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy brings out a lot of television, from sober docs to hammy reenactments, with conspiracy theories of all stripes.
Meet the Writers: Peter Sobczynski
Writer Peter Sobczynski responds to our Movie Love Questionnaire.
Meet the Writers: Dan Callahan
Writer Dan Callahan responds to our Movie Love Questionnaire.
“Star Wars” in Navajo
What changes when “Star Wars” is dubbed in Navajo? More than you might think.
Your Opinion Sucks
Critics took a drubbing from fans at a Comic Con New York panel. But critics seemed like straw men for the fans, even with a group of real live critics on the panel.
Thumbnails 11/8/2013
Food stamps cuts hit hard; “Gravity” as an experimental blockbuster; Netflix is wicked busy; a Maureen O’Hara biography; Lego’s female scientist figure.
Thumbnails 11/7/2013
Why we still need video stores; composer Hans Zimmer speaks; Sweden’s feminist movie ratings system; the gold standard for thank-you notes; free movie streaming through libraries.
Thumbnails 11/5/2013
Revisiting the Black Dahlia case, ‘Disneyfying’ famous women, a profile of TCM host Robert Osborne, Patti Smith on Lou Reed and the story behind a notorious SNL skit.
Thumbnails 11/4/2013
Memory lane with the Coen Brothers and John Goodman; the uncharacteristic reticence of Ronan Farrow; how our minds mislead us (let us count the ways); Ernst Lubitsch’s pre-code transgressions; Rebecca Miller on the importance of casting directors.
Thumbnails 11/6/2013
SNL’s diversity problem extends to its writers room; movies, marijuana, and Hoberman; John Waters’ one-man show; gender in the WNBA; life imitating Nazi-stolen art.
Meet the Writers: Simon Abrams
Writer Simon Abrams responds to our Movie Love Questionnaire.
Thumbnails 11/1/2013
An open letter from Woody Allen; an Edna Krabappel tribute; the possibility of a “Prometheus 2”; why film festivals reject good films; the return of “Black Angel” (the film meant to precede “Empire Strikes Back”).
Thumbnails 10/31/2013
The logic of “stupid poor people”; the retrogression of “Boondock Saints”; Zizek and Chomsky documentaries; David Simon on “12 Years a Slave”; a case for theological studies.
Thumbnails 10/29/2013
Ken Loach sends out editing distress signal, Pixar answers; Twitter changes the role of the literary critic for better and worse; Oliver Stone reminisces on his postwar experience as a New York film student studying under Martin Scorsese; marching band does incredible, incredible stuff.
