AP entertainment writer Jake Coyle writes up the short that will screen before Wall-E, Presto: “WALL-E,” the tale of robot love that’s almost without dialogue, itself feels like a Pixar short grown long, with “Presto” as a delightful and cartoonish appetizer. Written and directed by Doug Sweetland, “Presto” is about an elegant...
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Craig Kennedy over at Living in Cinema, or LiC to its devoted following, ponders the distorted impression one gets from seeing films at a film festival: I might be stating the obvious here, but something has come into clearer focus for me these past few days: Beware of reviews from film festivals. They’re not to be trusted. Environment, expectations and state of...
All These Wonderful Things’ AJ Schnack wonders what is up with the staged event presented as news? They say that no publicity is bad publicity, but what the hell is up with Jeffrey Ressner’s article at Politico entitled “Atwater doc makes conservatives groan”, a bizarre piece of constructed outrage wherein Ressner, a former reporter for Time Magazine,...
Remember in April when scenes from the script for Oliver Stone’s ‘W’ were leaked and greedily pored over at NYM’s Culture Vulture? Major media analysts were aghast at the sophomoric dialogue, packed with every trite Bushism repeated ad nauseum on late night TV for the past 8 years. We here at AD even wondered if those exceedingly weak excerpts...
Spoutblog’s Karina Longworth takes a long look at how the bloggers themselves have reacted to the latest media guy to jump in the shark tank, Patrick Goldstein, “Journalist Starts Blog; Earth Spins Off Axis, Universe Explodes,” Longworth writes. Goldstein, who writes the Big Picture for the LA Times seems well suited for the blog format it’s a...