December 2008
32 posts
Is MSNBC Redefining Documentary? →
At the Kansas City Star’s TV Barn blog, Aaron Barnhart examines MSNBC’s strategy of devoting as much as a third of their schedule to “documentary” programming. Barnhart takes issue with the…
Oscars: Best Picture Underdogs →
I’m still catching up on RSS feeds after a week away, but as movie blog talk increasingly moves towards Oscar prognostication (because what else are we gonna talk about between now and…
Big, Stupid Hollywood Films We’re Looking Forward... →
Oh, 2008 … where has the time all gone to? It seems like just yesterday that we were cringing at the faux Golden Globes, learning about Sweding, and seriously debating Juno’s chance at…
Revolutionary Road Review →
Being that it’s at once an embarrassing failure and an unignorable success, it’s a bit of a shock that Sam Mendes’ Revolutionary Road has thus far been received with fewer vitriolic open…
Laying Awake at Night Worrying About Filmmakers’... →
Scott Macaulay asked me to contribute some year-end thoughts to the FILMMAKER Magazine blog, and I did, and they’re up now. Personally, in memorializing the year that’s about to end while…
I.O.U.S.A. on YouTube, and Interview with Patrick... →
AJ Schnack is publishing a series of year-end email interviews with non-fiction filmmakers. So far, he’s talked to Man on Wire director James Marsh, Trouble the Water’s …
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Review →
To borrow a line from Lou Lumenick: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is this year’s Forrest Gump. This is not really arguable. In addition to sharing a screenwriter (Eric Roth),…
The Week of Bests. SpoutBlog Week in Review →
If you have a film in Sundance or Slamdance, we want to talk to you.
Bests of 2008: movies that played in movie theaters, movies that didn’t, music videos
You should buy DVDs for…
“Don’t you just hate when the movies make you care about a bigot? Sure, racists...”
– 5 Lovable Movie Racists
More on Court 13 →
Yesterday, guest blogger Kevin Lee put two shorts by members of the Court 13 collective on his list of the 5 Best Music Videos of 2008, Benh Zeitlin’s clip for O’Death’s “Lowtide,” and…
More on Court 13 →
“For example, wireless-only households are more likely to contain binge drinkers...”
– The populations of Brooklyn and the Mission District must have been seriously over-represented in this study.
US Cellphone-Only Households Keep Climbing (via AI)
(via katiebakes)
“In many ways it’s an apotheosis of what the best of Kanye is about: a searching...”
– The 5 Best Music Videos of 2008
Blind Advocates Want Apology For SNL Patterson... →
But how did they see it?
I just remembered that The Red Krayola exist.
Can somebody please help me
itsbedtime:
Pick a Health Insurance plan. Freelancers union is switching over and I’m awful at adult activities like this.
I went with the one that cost about the same as my old Freelancer’s Union plan, because I figured it would probably have the same sort of stuff. Me is also bad at life.
“There is Liz Lemon and there is Liz Lemon as portrayed by a leading actress in a...”
– This is why Alec Baldwin is one of my top five favorite people on the planet.
"The Magical Negro did not appeal to you, as it... →
My favorite line from last week’s episode of FilmCouch.