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Why Gravity is Grabbing So Much Attention
The Sandra Bullock 3-D space movie Gravity has opened to spectacular reviews and record-breaking October box office numbers. And after going to see it last Tuesday in 3-D at my local theater, I have to say that the movie has earned … Continue reading
Four Rules to Make Star Wars Great Again
An open video letter to J.J. Abrams from Sincerely Truman. This is brilliant and correct. And as one commenter on YouTube put it: “So basically… Make Firefly.” Pretty much. Shiny!
TV/movie piracy & Hollywood. Who’s to blame? And is it all bad?
A post in honor of International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Are improper movie downloads Hollywood’s own fault? Kinda looks like it. When you give people easy, reasonably priced ways to download movies, they prefer them over “pirated” downloads. And as … Continue reading
The Mako Mori Test – An alternative to the Bechdel Test
You all know the Bechdel Test for the role of women in film, right? Very simple three part test for the importance of women in a film: Are there at least two female characters with names Who talk with each … Continue reading
Link Ch. 3 – Using Kickstarter to Help Fund Movies
Kickstarter Page for Spike Lee’s Da Sweet Blood of Jesus Small-town movie theaters theaters threatened by shift to digital cinema Story from the LA Times on how smaller communities are using fundraising and Kickstarter to try to buy digital projectors for drive-ins and … Continue reading
Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)
Why would a big name director like Spike Lee choose to fund a movie using Kickstarter? Well, let’s let him answer that question: If you had a button that would let you turn off all news about the Royal Baby, … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 6, Chapter 8, Chapter 9
Tagged Because I can, global media, movies, questions, television
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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe) – Movie Edition
How did Die Hard director John McTiernan end up in prison? It’s not a pretty story. How does the JJ Abrams Star Trek Reboot compare to what Nicholas Meyer did to the original movie series? Smart critique that does just … Continue reading
Obsessed fans, Iron Man, Censors, & Rush – Pop Culture Roundup
So maybe Stephen King wasn’t completely exaggerating with his obsessed fan in Misery. True Blood author Charlaine Harris has some really over-the-top fans who don’t want her to end her Sookie Sackhouse vampire series. Iron Man 3 Gets Odd Changes … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 11, Chapter 4, Chapter 7, Chapter 8
Tagged advertising, movies, radio, Rush Limbaugh
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Remembering Roger Ebert
“Roger Ebert loved movies. Except for those he hated” It was hard to get the news last week that Pulitzer Prize winning film critic Roger Ebert had died of cancer. Just the day before he died, Ebert had announced on … Continue reading
Pop Culture Charley – Handicapping the Oscars
Charley Reed has done enough guest blog posts here that I’m no longer going to consider him a guest poster. Instead, I’m going to put his great commentaries on pop media culture under the heading Charley’s Pop Culture. Here are … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 8, Uncategorized
Tagged Charley Reed, movies, Oscars, Oscars 2013
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