Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Does Sora Represent the Beginning of the End for Film and TV Production as We Know It?

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Back during the Hollywood strikes of last year the rights of writers and actors with regard to the usage of their work to train the artifi...

David Walsh, His Colleagues, and the Nominees Honored by the 96th Academy Awards

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As I have remarked many a time in the past I have consistently found David Walsh and his colleagues the most worthwhile team of film critics...

The One True X-Men

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The live-action X-Men movies Bryan Singer launched with the first film back in 2000 have been an important part of the twenty-first century ...

Cory Doctorow's Latest at Pluralistic

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I have long found Cory Doctorow a breath of fresh air in a dialogue where discussion of his areas of concentration are dominated by copyrigh...

Just How Much Do Streaming Shows Get Watched After Their Run?

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Last year Kimiko Glenn's sharing her residual check for her work on the hit Netflix show Orange is the New Black during the actors'...

Wall Street is Acting Like the Singularity is Here (Again)

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A couple of years ago, considering in hindsight the way that the capitalization of the stock market exploded in 1994-1999 ( growing 20 perce...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Can Hollywood Survive the Demise of its "Blockbuster" Filmmaking Model?

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As I have remarked many a time (because the claqueurs and courtiers of the entertainment press are so much in denial about this) what Holl...

James McDonald Reviews The Best American Short Stories 2023

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Last year the literary critic James McDonald asked "Where is Our Zola?" A partial answer to his question would seem to be "...
Thursday, February 15, 2024

The Deadpool and Wolverine Trailer: Some Thoughts

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Deadpool's first appearance on film was in 2009's Wolverine . Of course there was no direct follow-up, but Deadpool did get his own ...
Wednesday, February 7, 2024

A Few Thoughts on the Box Office in 2024 (So Far)

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As I remarked in a recent post the January 2024 box office has been, to put it mildly, disappointing for Hollywood. Rather than improving o...

Another Surprising Movie Review from David Walsh (of Yorgos Lanthimos Poor Things)

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Reading about Poor Things in advance of the film's debut I expected a piece of postmodernist tripe. This is all the more in as it comes...
Friday, February 2, 2024

The Intensity of the Reaction to Greta Gerwig's Non-Nomination for Best Director

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In light of the earlier hoopla for Barbie I was surprised when Greta Gerwig did not get a Best Director nomination for helming the film --a...

The Theme Song for The Fall Guy

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Recently thinking about The Fall Guy 's old theme song I took another look at "The Unknown Stuntman," and, yeah, I'm remi...

The January 2024 Box Office: How Did the First Month of the Year Go for Hollywood?

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As noted here, 2023 went much less well for Hollywood than many thought it would at the start of the year--in large part due to the rejectio...

The Decline of the Movie Star, Revisited

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Way back in 2012 (which feels like both yesterday and an eon ago to me) I wrote a piece about what seemed the declining relevance of Oscar n...