I’m not actually sure what this study really proves. Essentially, they claim that recent blockbusters are better at mimicking the ebb and flow of attention spans, but as Professor Blough always said, “Correlation does not mean causation.” It could be that the editing in recent blockbusters is better at tapping in to some sort of [...]

Is the world ready for a suicide bomber comedy (suicide bomedy)? Almost certainly not, but it looks very funny.
Also, new trailer for the upcoming season of Lost. I think we can all agree that it’s not marketing hyperbole to call this the television event of the year. I mean that’s just true. It’s a fact.
And [...]

I haven’t read it all – or even all that much of it – but this represents a truly heroic weirdly obsessive level of commitment.
h/t: Tori

The AV Club has been rounding up their best of everything of the decade, and this week is their week of movies. I don’t have a ton to say about most of it, though they did pick the appropriate #1 movie, and I’m glad to see someone (anyone) finally line up with me that There [...]

I was a little underwhelmed by A.O. Scott’s recap of the decade in movies when I read it this weekend, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on why. Then, I read Isaac Chotiner’s blog post about the article, and it seemed exactly right. Not only did it feel like Scott was trumpeting middling movies, [...]

Shadows is my favorite John Cassavetes movie, so I naturally enjoyed this article talking up its 50th anniversary. Most people, at least from what I’ve been able to gather, seem to prefer Faces, but I have an instinctual revulsion to anything not called The Graduate whose only reason to exist is to offer another rote [...]

This series of illustrations of famous movies (6 scenes, in sequence, with none of the stars and few explicitly identifying characteristics) is pretty great, but I do kind of wish I could find a key on here somewhere. I’m able to get most of them, which only makes the few I don’t know that much [...]

Ok, so I’ve been MIA for a while, which I’d like to say is because I’ve been cooking up something “big,” but is really just because I’ve been feeling somewhere between sick and tired for a couple weeks. Oh yeah, and I’m lazy.
So I’m going to try to ease back into this by pointing to [...]

Rotten Tomatoes ranked the 100 Worst Movies of the Decade. I got really worried on just the first page because of how many I’d seen, but it leveled off pretty quickly.
Below is the list of the ones I’ve seen. I was going to try to explain them away, but there really is no excuse for [...]

So, the big news this weekend is that Roman Polanski was arrested. I’m a long-standing proponent of a separation of the artist and his art. Many great artists are really reprehensible people who do really terrible things, but that should in no way warn us off from loving their work. That Wagner, for instance, was [...]