As James mentioned last week, Battle Royale is a fine example of modern Japanese cinema. And here comes the AV Club with tons more info on the film. One quibble,...
Ever since I got into the journalism biz–way back in the halcyon days of 2004–I’ve noticed an interesting dilemma: Journalists at large, national outlets will steal ideas and other people’s...
One of the more deplorable practices of the motion picture industry is that of “double-dipping” on DVDs–in other words, releasing a regular edition DVD and following it up three months...
I’d really be interested in reading about this in long-form, preferably from a mainstream journalistic outlet and not from a website I’ve never read before (no offense intended, Strategy Page,...
An interesting* thing happened to me in the theater this weekend: while waiting to see Forgetting Sarah Marshall, I was asked by some Nielsen pollsters if I wouldn’t mind giving...
Wow. Give this piece a read. At least the good folks at Newsweek were honest about it this time, entitling Evan Thomas’s piece “A Memo to Senator Obama.” In it,...
