Jim Ridley writes
about movies for the Nashville Scene.
As people who write
about movies for a living, we understand taking them very seriously.
She has written
about movies for The Independent, the Sundance Daily Insider, the Tribeca Film Festival catalogue and Willamette Week, classical music for Andante and Stagebill, and environmental activism for Biography.
Mark Asch has written
about movies for Reverse Shot, The Village Voice, Little White Lies, and The Reykjavík Grapevine.
I write
about movies for a living — how could I pick -LSB-...]
Melissa Tamminga lives in Bellingham, Washington, and when she's not teaching English and film studies at Whatcom Community College, frequents the Pickford Film Center; writes
about movies for Seattle Screen, on her website, A Journal of Film, and on Letterboxd; and listens to more film podcasts than is healthy for one person.
At one point during her thirteen years writing
about movies for The Boston Globe, she was chastised by another journalist for having given Cabin Boy four stars.
Last year, yours truly got only 15 of 24 categories right, proving that writing
about movies for a living doesn't make you an expert at guessing which ones will take home awards.
Consider that major European academics such as Umberto Eco and the late Roland Barthes have written
about movies for popular newspapers and magazines, but their U.S. counterparts are considered much too esoteric for such exposure — which doesn't mean that American readers are dumber, only that American editors (and perhaps writers) are more restrictive.
I love being able to support female artists in such a consistent way, and it's an endless treat to get to watch and write
about movies for my job.
In addition to writing
about movies for Salon, my writing on film has also appeared in Sight and Sound, Details, and the Boston Phoenix
My favorite movie when I was younger was Barbie and the swan lake but I had not been thinking
about that movie for ages.
I've heard good comments
about this movie for years, but finally got around to seeing a copy.
I was a little torn
about this movie for one reason and that reason is Denzel Washington.
The worst thing
about this movie for me is Doctor Doom.
I have been so excited
about this movie for so long.
Kelly Robson wrote
about the movie for Ed Next in «Wrestling with Diversity and Education in American Promise.»
Not exact matches
The two companies have been talking
about a potential
movie for over a year, the report said, and it builds on a previous deal between Nintendo and Universal to build Nintendo - related rides and attractions at various Universal theme parks.
It's unclear what the an upcoming Mario
movie would be
about, but it's likely to be a blend of the surreal and comical — something the Mario franchise is known
for, with its portly plumber battling turtle - like creatures in a so - called Mushroom Kingdom.
«I am
about 40 pages in, my dream is
for james franco to play me in the
movie» «it is gonna be epic» «it's all gonna be in there» «it is a story of love, a story of invention» «you will laugh, you will cry...» «you're gonna love it» «it's really funny!»
That way, iSpot can teach its system to search
for combinations of words like «Solo» and «trailer,» «commercial,» or «
movie» to measure the online chatter
about the ad.
Don't stay up all night watching
movies, or waiting
for someone to get upset
about a Knee Defender.
Questions
about where Mr. Low and the prime minister's stepson — a
movie producer behind films including «The Wolf of Wall Street» — obtained money
for the United States properties have helped fuel political unrest in Malaysia, where several political leaders in the opposition and in Mr. Najib's own party have called
for the prime minister to step down.
I probably wasn't ready to do the
movie until I did it and, initially, I was a little naive
about the resources we needed
for the
movie.»
«We should not just let it be
about «Oh this man behaved like this» and «This is so shocking,» or all of that,» Shah Rukh Khan, another top
movie star who's worked in Bollywood
for three decades, told Business Insider.
Though Vanity Fair's Richard Lawson admitted that the voice initally sounds «too synthetic and effortful
for a
movie that's
about some very dire real - world things,» he suggests that the actor's performance will win audiences over.
If we were persecuted
for the amount of sh — that's been said
about us that's not true, our lives would be over... The experience of making the
movie was so outside of that, it was fruitful
for the two of us to go on with it.»
For example, researchers have used data from a Reddit discussion forum
about movies to train computers to mimic how people chat
about their favorite films.
«Here is a company that has the best
movies about how we've got to help one another and how racism is wrong and how we've got to take care of our toys,» said Glynndana Shevlin, a 58 - year - old who's worked
for almost 30 years at Disney.
Laurence wants to stop talking to consumers
about the price tag
for a megabyte of data and start highlighting the
movies, TV and music that can be consumed with those megabytes.
A cheap date — defined as cab rides, dinner or lunch
for two at a pub or diner, soft drinks, two
movie tickets and a couple of beers — runs
about $ 195.90 in Zurich, down around 7 percent from last year, the survey found.
I have yet to come up with a solution
for the inevitable fight
about what
movie to watch next.
But had Sony stuck to its guns and released the
movie as planned, it would have made a strong statement
about standing up
for freedom instead of giving in to fear and threats as Ben Franklin once wrote, «Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.»
Jason Guerrasio: So when you got an email
about auditioning
for this
movie you didn't realize it was a Paul Thomas Anderson
movie, right?
The Light House Cinema in Smithfield, Dublin, hosted some special cinephiles on Sunday
for a screening of the film: a huge pack of pups and their owners who were ready to sit back, enjoy some popcorn and dog - friendly treats, and enjoy a
movie about their favorite subject, dogs.
You can stock up on hot dogs and soda
for your barbecue; find summer clothes, like tank tops and flip flops, at Dick's, JCPenney, and other clothing stores; and many of the books and
movies being offered appear to fit the Independence Day theme, including the Totally Hilarious All
About America Activity Book from Exchange, which you can get
for 25 % off.
If you read through even a few of the thousands of posts and Twitter comments and related outcry
about Taylor's departure, and the subsequent shut - down of popular threads or «sub-Reddits» like r /
movies and r / music, it becomes obvious that
for many of the site's users, the issue is
about more than just the firing of one employee.
A landmark faux - documentary
about the Algerian War in the late 1950s and early 1960s against the French government in North Africa, the
movie was banned in France
for six years due to its pro-Algerian message.
Netflix's target
for original
movies next year compares with a 2017 slate of
about 50 film titles that it has released or is scheduled to debut globally.
The short video featured a slow, eerie cover of the Bee Gees song «I Started a Joke,» setting a dark tone
for the
movie about villains recruited to save the world.
Stanley Kubrick's classic
movie about an ultraviolent teen went so far in showing horrific antics, including house invasion and rape, that numerous countries banned the film
for decades.
I know what you're going say: «How can a
movie about a check forger running from the FBI
for years compare to a
movie about a crippled future where everyone is addicted to virtual reality?»
Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero
movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut
for Black Panther could pave the way
for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories
about characters of color.
When a sales rep wins a gift certificate to their favorite store,
movie tickets or passes to an amusement park, they feel good
about themselves, their profession and the business they work
for.
The program would be hassle - free
for studios — they would only provide the names of similar
movies, while Twitter would figure out which users were already talking
about them, even if they weren't using the title specifically.
That 7 - inch screen has just
about the lowest resolution you can get — 1,024 x 600 pixels — and yet it's sufficient
for things like games,
movies and, if you're not hung up on print - quality text, reading.
I reconnected with him in» 85, and we started talking
about how there should be a
movie magazine
for adults, that the world was changing, and, oddly enough, it was a technological development that enabled me to start the magazine.
The
movie is quite open
about these lapses in judgment, while never
for a minute backing off the position that Bush disobeyed orders and very likely went AWOL from the Guard.
For the better part of the last decade or so, cable and TV companies have watched the upheaval going on in the
movie and music industries — not to mention the newspaper business — and felt pretty sanguine
about their prospects.
As big of a headache as freely distributed content is
for the music and
movie businesses, it's even worse
for adult entertainment because Web surfers have no compulsions
about getting the stuff without paying
for it.