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When I originally started this blog all those many moons ago (geez — it’s only like 16 moons; it feels so much longer, and I’m sure even longer still for you), I really intended to regularly do two things: first, have some semblance of regular reviews of the movies I see — long, short, whatever;Continue reading “MORE THAN ENOUGH FOR ME: THE WEEKEND IN PREVIEW”

Here I go thinking I’m all back into the swing of things, multiple posts on a day even, and then suddenly I miss one. I know, it’s certainly no capital crime, but I do have several items I do keep intending to put up here. However, the big thing that has happened this week isContinue reading “OH DEAR, DELINQUENT AGAIN: I GUESS EW AND I HAVE THAT IN COMMON”

The blogosphere is ablaze today with the release of Forbes’ favorite blogs. Gothamist got mentioned as a “Forbes Favorite,” as did the great Galleycat for when you need your literary/publishing fix. Other personal favs receiving “Best of the Web” Top-100 notice include Maud Newton and Stereogum, but while browsing the “Forbes Directory of blogs whereContinue reading “WHY THE UTTER LACK OF RESPECT?”

Big news rocks the entertainment magazine world today!! OK, maybe not. But “TV Guide relaunching as Larger Magazine” actually is a pretty major development in the history of a pretty venerable institution. What’s Frank Costanza going to do when he has to add a larger physical magazine to his collection? But seriously (or something) …Continue reading “I HOPE THEY ALSO PLAN ON REVAMPING THEIR ENTIRE EDITORIAL STAFF”

This is not going to become a Michael Bay hate site (any more than it already is one), but just yesterday I revelled in the poor opening of Bay’s latest film The Island, and, to quote myself, called him an “arrogant prick.” For anyone who inexplicably felt bad for Bay because some barely-read schmuck (read:Continue reading “GET OVER YOUR EFFIN SELF”

A little over a week ago, I wrote about the news that Michael Bay was going to be directing a live-action Transformers film and that hopefully it would flop since he’s such a crap filmmaker. Bay isn’t just a wasted talent as a director (he undeniably has a wonderful visual sense and directs exciting individualContinue reading “HAPPY HAPPY, JOY JOY: ONE MOVIE EARLIER THAN EXPECTED”

Since last August, my friend Lily and I have been doing these Gothamist Interviews. We’ve stuck to a pretty regular format that includes a selection of questions tailored directly to the subject and another selection that we keep the same for everyone we talk to. One of those questions-for-all is “311: Help of hoopla?” concerningContinue reading “311: HELP OR HOOPLA”

Another reason I may get to less of the new stuff this weekend … While the weather outside might turn frightful (I’m getting really sick of that “Isolated Thunderstorm” report, especially during those specific times that I plan to be outside!), tonight at the Prospect Park Bandshell is one of my favorite annual Celebrate BrooklynContinue reading “SO IF IT RAINS, MAYBE IT WILL JUST MAKE THE MOVIE MORE CREEPY”

There is way too much opening this weekend, and I have a ton of work to do that really should keep me inside at the laptop, but I feel like I have to try to get to one or more. I’ve actually had a week full of movie watching, but it’s been coupled with tooContinue reading “THE WEEKEND IN MOVIES IN PREVIEW: THERE’S REALLY TOO MUCH”

It makes sense that after several years of reality-show mayhem not to mention repeated discussions about how reality television is on its way out that rather than a decline in the number of reality series we’ve seen two very different and distinct things happen. First, you get the bastardization of the old: all the showsContinue reading “NOT ALL REALITY IS CREATED EQUAL”