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There Will Come Soft Rains
Short animation based on the Ray Bradbury story of the same name.
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In Case There Was Any Doubt About Who’s Creating Your Media…
… and why it’s still assumed that every audience member is straight, white, upper-middle class, and male. WGA report examining employment and earnings trends for writers in the Hollywood industry: 2009 Executive Summary (.pdf)2009 Hollywood Writers Report (.pdf) (via deadbrowalking)
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Dollhouse
Oh, thank God. YOU WILL NOT BE MISSED. Whedon is wasting his time on this one. Think of the incredible shows he could be creating RIGHT NOW but hasn’t been for the last year and a half because he’s been hip-deep in this piece of crap. You can love two or three series from a
Prince of Persia
Sooo…. let me get this straight. You had folks like this chick and this guy to carry this movie: And YOU CHOSE this guy and this chick? I’m sorry, what planet are you living on, Hollywood? Because it’s not the same planet I’m living on. Also, it looks like a terrible movie.
Sunshine
This was not a bad movie. No, really! I’m a sucker for psychological horror in spaaaaaaace and this was a prime example of that. It’s not a great movie, but it was… entertaining. This may have been because I wasn’t expecting a whole lot from it. The conceit behind Sunshine is ridiculous, of course. If
Pathfinder
This was not the movie I wanted to see. See, I wanted somebody to take the opportunity to tell the story about complex, fully developed Native American societies whoopin some Viking ass. Instead, it’s just another cliched ramble about “noble savages” getting saved by The Great White Hope. It was like watching 10,000 BC… in
Katha Pollitt Moneyshot
“The widespread support for Polanski shows the liberal cultural elite at its preening, fatuous worst. They may make great movies, write great books, and design beautiful things, they may have lots of noble humanitarian ideas and care, in the abstract, about all the right principles: equality under the law, for example. But in this case,
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Quote of the Day
“Tarantino, I think, gets a lot of pleasure out of demonstrating over and over again that you can get the 18-45 male audience that Hollywood desires into seats, and you can give them a story about a hyper-competent female hero who kicks ass in every way, and they won’t run screaming out of the theater
Squee
Lena Headey, my favorite Spartan (and second fav Sarah Conner) is playing Cersei. OMG. OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!