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May 12, 2024 Archive Movie City News | Awards | MCN Weekend | Hot Button | Festivals | DP/30 | MCN Indie | Hot Blog Columnists | MCN Originals | Reviews | Curated Headlines | Interviews | Press Releases DP/30 see all » Elisabeth Moss, Her Smell November 25th, 2019 Lauren Greenfield, The Kingmaker November 18th, 2019 Review: Little Women (no spoilers) By David Poland - Monday, November 25th, 2019 I was just happy to be in the room with this family. I was happy to be bathed in their familial intimacies. I felt my heart break with their heartbreaks. And I was happy to feel clear in what each of the people represented and not to feel like the characters or the director was shoving the subtext down my throat like they were fattening my liver for pâté. Read the full article » 20 Weeks To Oscar: Cinema, Trump, and Oscar By David Poland - Sunday, November 24th, 2019 What smashed me hard across the face about 1917 was the simple earnestness about honor and, considering its time, manhood at a time when America is wallowing in a lack of honor and a dearth of what were once seen as the virtues of manhood. 1917 is just one of the 5 period movies that very specifically deal with the male engagement with power. Read the full article » Box Office First Look By David Poland - Saturday, November 23rd, 2019 I’m getting back into this habit… but a little uninspired so far. Frozen 2 opened in the same slot as Frozen, although the first time around, it opened on a single screen. This time, it started wide, as has become the norm Read the full article » Do You Want To Build A Straw Man? By David Poland - Friday, November 22nd, 2019 Read the full article » Why You Should Be Afraid Of The End Of The Paramount Decree By David Poland - Friday, November 22nd, 2019 Read the full article » Gurus o’ Gold: Actress, Actor, Supporting Actress, Supporting Actor (Nov 19, 2019) By The Gurus of Gold - Tuesday, November 19th, 2019 Read the full article » Review: Frozen 2 (spoiler-free) By David Poland - Tuesday, November 19th, 2019 Read the full article » View More MCN Originals » see all » I don’t think it’s cruel to say this, because John himself would undoubtedly have turned it into a gleeful anecdote: When he had the stroke that killed him, he was at a local dinner theater. Hell of a review.” I am inclined to aver that every activity needs its critics, from narcissists bloviating in Washington to exhibitors of knee holes in their blue jeans by way of following a fad. So, too, tennis players and others wearing their caps backward. There is, to be sure, only fairly innocuous folly in puncturing pants or reversing caps, but for political or artistic or religious twisting of thought or harboring holes in the head there is rather less excuse. I have always inveighed against the bleary journalism practiced by newspaper reviewers, as opposed to the real criticism performed by, well, critics.” I often felt a twinge of grief at the idea that John Simon had devoted his life to a method of work that could only make him increasingly unhappy. Here was a man, elegant, articulate, and vastly knowledgeable, fluent in at least half a dozen languages, whose gifts of mind gave nothing back to the arts he wrote about except a few unkind remarks that made fun of someone’s performance, ethnicity, physical attributes, or, with a pun, on his target’s name. (If this is Norman Wisdom, I’ll take Saxon folly.”) Other theatre critics keep such darts in their rucksacks for occasional use; John lived by them.” One person’s critic is another person’s crackpot. That they are not united in their opinions is ascribable to the Latin saying: quot homines, tot sententiae. I myself prefer being considered a creep, but that is what you get for having what Vladimir Nabokov called ‘Strong Opinions.’ It is odd that in a country so wallowing in negativity, starting with mass shootings and climaxing with Trump, such an unimportant matter as theater criticism should generate so much hostility. The only target patently more important is lead in the drinking water.” The DVD Wrapup: Cold War, Betty Blue, Official Secrets, Demons, Olivia, American Dreamer, Land of Yik Yak Then one day I came home from school and discovered that every single issue of Fangoria that I owned had been shredded and dumped onto my bed. But first, here’s a little bit about my parents.” E. Scott Weinberg On Youthful Fangoria Encounters Rome’s most beautiful bookshop closes its doors | @wantedinrome https://t.co/wFTGRh9c73 pic.twitter.com/03QtOif44H — Publishers Weekly (@PublishersWkly) November 22, 2019 With a Grauniad-Alleged $300 Million Budget, Could The Yet-Unseen But Surely Weird Cats Pass A Billion Dollars at The Box Office? WEEKEND READS ON MEDIAQUAKE To be precise, Alden is the largest single shareholder at 25 percent It owns Denver Post and other newspaper properties through Digital First Media. It is a very opaque owner stripping the financial assets of its properties. Yet, not alone. — David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik) November 19, 2019 business model now switching from ruthless incompetence to competent ruthlessness — Matt Pearce ? (@mattdpearce) November 19, 2019 "The Tribune Publishing Board of Directors is in discussions with Alden to put two members on the Board in connection with increasing the size of the Board from six to eight." https://t.co/Gwi5ZGW7l5 — Crain’s Chicago (@CrainsChicago) November 19, 2019 The past decade has seen the conversion of news companies into financial instruments stripped of civic responsibility by waves of outside money men. Here’s the latest on McClatchy’s prospects: https://t.co/7GN7ghzDyI — Nieman Lab (@NiemanLab) November 19, 2019 In light of @thereportmovie (see it!), I wrote an op-ed for @latimes about the truth of CIA torture, its ongoing impact on victims and survivors, and why the past is still very much present. https://t.co/zXm2xWUWaN — Hina Shamsi (@HinaShamsi) November 21, 2019 Canadian Documentarian John Kastner Was 73 NEW: Torstar memo on the closing of StarMetro daily print publications. Says 73 editorial, advertising and distribution employees will be laid off. Star plans to reopen digital bureaus in the affected cities. pic.twitter.com/10rbHW04lU — Sean Craig (@sdbcraig) November 19, 2019 Part of what makes ‘Kramer vs. Kramer’ endure all these years later,” writes @jourdayen , is that it imagines a male character who learns to grow and recognize the part he played in the dissolution of his marriage” https://t.co/med7jeCcCw — New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) November 14, 2019 Martin Scorsese’s Late Style” By Scout Tafoya I’ve been talking to Charlie about this novel for almost eight years and watching it change and recalibrate and grow. ‘Antkind’ is a hilarious, devastating, epic mindfuck. I’ve never read anything else like it.” Writing Uncut Gems Across A Decade, With the Safdies And Ronald Bronstein As DirecTV tanks, AT&T says it will re-bundle” TV with HBO Max” Happy Birthday @TerryGilliam – 79 years young today! pic.twitter.com/G2F6sgBQcu — Monty Python (@montypython) November 22, 2019 Lost could NEVER have existed in a binge format, can you imagine? In fact Damon Lindelof, JJ Abrams, and Chris Carter might never have had careers if TV in their eras had come out a whole season at a time. — Ginny Brown (@lirelyn) November 22, 2019 Laemmle Shutters Beverly Hills Music Hall After 82 Years On my post-movie walk home, learned the local Barnes & Noble is closing after Christmas. Leaving no bookstores in downtown Seattle. — Vince Keenan (@vpkeenan) November 22, 2019 The Ticking Time Bomb That Could Blow Up Hollywood’s Streaming Era” Is streaming growing so big and out of control it should be regulated? A growing chorus says yes. https://t.co/qNYLPGTrJr — Steven Zeitchik (@ZeitchikWaPo) November 22, 2019 All this hate and violence is being facilitated by a handful of internet companies that amount to the greatest propaganda machine in history.” Hate crimes are surging, as are murderous...