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.
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.
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?
Dave Bunting’s video essay examines the visual style of “Breaking Bad” Season 2. He also spoke with the show’s cinematographer, Michael Slovis.
China isn’t paying Hollywood studios; finding American resonances in “The Hunt”; how the media helped Anthony Weiner become a successful exhibitionist; revisiting the first solo rap record.
In a Q&A with an audience for the new film “Still Mine,” James Cromwell discusses everything from the Bush family to his first nude scene.
“Dawn of the Dead”, Japanese-style; the effects of the depression in Greece; what happens when blogs go silent; revisiting Cronenberg’s “The Dead Zone”; Fassbinder/Foley.
On Trayvon and Questlove and feminism and racism; why the American right hates Detroit; Elliott Gould tells tales out of school; why somebody should adapt Stephen King’s ‘The Long Walk.’
“The To Do List” may not be a film of great substance, but this comedy
about a young girl’s strange, semi-erotic journey from untouched maiden
to minx accomplishes something both rare and significant for a teen
movie: it places a female character in the central role as unapologetic
sexual aggressor.
All the movies Stanley Kubrick was known to have liked; the 25 most exciting young female filmmakers in cinema today; Skyler White is not a bitch; why Spike Lee doesn’t need Kickstarter; reporter’s account of watching her elderly parents getting arrested; scientists implant false memory in a mouse’s brain; Paul Thomas Anderson directs Fiona Apple.
What it means to craft “personal” writing; Steven Soderbergh pledges $10,000 to Spike Lee’s Kickstarter film; inside the Malick lawsuit; revisiting “There Will Be Blood.”
You see it happen more and more often these days: a movie pauses to address a potential plot hole, then explains it away with clunky dialogue or ignores it and moves on. The movies are trying to plug leaks in a boat before the whole thing sinks—never quite repairing it, but doing just enough to get by.
Remembering Dennis Farina; why Nate Silver doesn’t do the Oscars well; eulogizing Detroit; deeper into Troma.
How does screen violence make you feel? What kind hurts, and what kind doesn’t? What goes through your mind when you see blood on the screen?
