A day or so ago there was a sudden photo of Coming Soon‘s Ed Douglas in the hospital. He’d been at Cinema-Con working when he found out he had acute leukemia. But of course, like most of us freelancers he has no health insurance. Thus, his buddies have set up a fundraiser page to help with mounting...
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Every time one of these erupts God punches a kitten in the face. I suspect it will be similar to the LA Times, the New York Times and various other sites that cover Oscar news. So, get ready Oscar watchers. Here comes another one. AwardsDaily’s saying has long been “covering the Oscar race 24/7″ but we expect others to steal from us – that’s...
In an ongoing dialogue between the two major critics at the Times, Manohla Dargis and AO Scott on film criticism today: Dargis: As critics, all we have are our beliefs, ideals, prejudices, blind spots, our reservoirs of historical and personal knowledge, and the strength of our arguments. There are empirical truths that we can say about a movie: it was shot in black and...
It’s that time of year again for the critics who are lucky enough to still have jobs writing about movies to complain about the Oscars and the Oscar coverage. I get it. I get that no one wants to see their beloved films dumped into the chute and set loose to run a race to win. I get it that they wish all coverage about the Oscars, the contest, the winners, the...