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AP/ Murray Close, Lionsgate
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By Tracy Bloom — A new study demonstrates that women are featured less and hypersexualized more than men in film. So although Jennifer Lawrence may have captured everyone’s imagination playing heroine Katniss Everdeen in “The Hunger Games,” that feat remains the exception rather than the rule.
Posted on May 16, 2013
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Gage Skidmore (CC-BY-SA)
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Angelina Jolie made her fortune as one of the most beautiful women in the world, and after having a double mastectomy to prevent against breast cancer, she writes, “I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.”
Posted on May 14, 2013
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Artwork, images and photo from Brian Wood's website.
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By Sheerly Avni — Brian Wood is a best-selling comic book writer whose body of work expresses a political and social awareness that ranks with the best in speculative fiction.
Posted on Apr 29, 2013
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Warner Bros.
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By Allen Barra — Jackie Robinson’s story has been oddly neglected by Hollywood—until now.
Posted on Apr 12, 2013
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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on Apr 7, 2013
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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Last week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: A look at the Oscar-nominated docs and other political movies, and more on the hacktivist collective Anonymous.
Posted on Mar 1, 2013
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Last week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: A look at the Oscar-nominated docs and other political movies, and more on the hacktivist collective Anonymous.
Posted on Mar 1, 2013
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Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP
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By Robert Scheer — What was Michelle Obama thinking? What if the card for “Zero Dark Thirty” had been lurking in that best picture envelope Sunday?
Posted on Feb 26, 2013
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Feb 25, 2013
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Hollywood often fails to recognize the truly great talent in its midst.
Posted on Feb 22, 2013
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Kenneth Lu (CC-BY)
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
Independent theaters and films are struggling to survive the transition to digital cinema.
Posted on Feb 15, 2013
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Still from "Lincoln" © Dreamworks and 20th Century Fox
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By Richard Schickel — The film year is, alas, a “disappointment.” The very idea of making a 10 Best list seems either laughable or a task comparable in difficulty to translating the Rosetta Stone.
Posted on Jan 4, 2013
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By Richard Schickel — What makes “Hyde Park on Hudson” a good deal more than delightful is its lightly touched seriousness of purpose.
Posted on Dec 5, 2012
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By Richard Schickel — He was never dark or monstrous as this film makes him seem. Rather the opposite. There was something—well—childlike about him.
Posted on Nov 26, 2012
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Still from Paramount Pictures
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By Richard Schickel — “Flight” is a mildly unsatisfying film, chiefly, I think, because we’ve been here before.
Posted on Nov 5, 2012
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Photo by JD Hancock (CC-BY)
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The Walt Disney Co. used to be the most creative business in the world. Now it’s a conglomerate that buys other people’s inventions: Pixar, Marvel and, most recently, Lucasfilm, home of the original blockbuster.
Posted on Oct 30, 2012
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Warner Bros./Publicity Still
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By Richard Schickel — I don’t know how much of the picture—beyond its basic premise—is “true.” And, frankly, I don’t give a damn.
Posted on Oct 15, 2012
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Still from "The House I Live In" courtesy Derek Hallquist
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By Peter Z. Scheer — A new documentary about prison and the drug war makes the science fiction dystopias of “Looper” and “Dredd 3D” feel disturbingly plausible.
Posted on Oct 1, 2012
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Detail from "The Master" poster via IMDb
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By Richard Schickel — The critics simply have too much invested in the still young director to acknowledge that “The Master” has to rank somewhere between a disappointment and a disaster.
Posted on Sep 17, 2012
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By Richard Schickel — We want it to be good. We certainly don’t want it to be the occasion for tragedy. What we are forced to settle for, though, is aimlessness.
Posted on Jul 23, 2012
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Jul 22, 2012
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By Emily Wilson — Explaining why she is fighting for reform of the student lending industry, Carmen Berkley bursts into tears. She is one of several borrowers interviewed in a documentary by Serge Bakalian, above.
Posted on Jul 10, 2012
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By Peter Z. Scheer — “Magic Mike” is an entertaining movie that unfortunately lacks the courage of its own predilections.
Posted on Jul 2, 2012
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Photo by TechCrunch (CC-BY)
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It is commonly known that the film industry is horrible in its treatment of women, and it is sometimes said in such circles that women aren’t very funny. How then to explain the hugely successful career of the writer most famous for “Sleepless in Seattle” and “When Harry Met Sally ... ,” Nora Ephron, who died Tuesday night?
Posted on Jun 26, 2012
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According to his IMDb filmography, this is the 30th year in a row that the filmmaker has directed at least one feature film, starting with 1982’s “A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy.” He was only slightly less prolific in the 16 years prior.
Posted on Jun 13, 2012
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Last week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The end of Andrew Breitbart, the week in politics and movie theater owners threaten to treat a documentary about bullies as an NC-17 film.
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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Last week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The end of Andrew Breitbart, the week in politics and movie theater owners threaten to treat a documentary about bullies as an NC-17 film.
Posted on Mar 5, 2012
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Rick McKee, Cagle Cartoons, The Augusta Chronicle —
Posted on Feb 26, 2012
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By David Sirota — Financed by the Pentagon, “Act of Valor” is a new film that seeks to make us forget our past military blunders.
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AP / Damian Dovargane
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By Carrie Rickey — In the beginning it was called the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and/or Sciences. While its ostensible purpose was management-approved mediation, its implicit goal was to pre-empt actors, writers and directors from organizing, as carpenters, musicians and electricians had done in 1926. Statuettes were an afterthought.
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EPA
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Animated movies make a bundle on commercial tie-ins, but “The Lorax” presented something of a challenge for Universal. After all, you can’t have plastic replicas of Dr. Seuss’ champion of the environment piling up in a landfill somewhere. The studio found a way to cash in by greenwashing its licensing with help from the EPA and Whole Foods.
Posted on Feb 8, 2012
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Sony Pictures
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India may be the world’s biggest democracy, but it has a little something to learn about free expression. Film censors have banned the Hollywood version of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” because of three sexual and/or violent scenes.
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AP / Chris Pizzello
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By Carrie Rickey — Here’s a thought exercise: In a nation where 33 percent of the Supreme Court justices are women, 17 percent of the seats in the Senate and House are held by women and 12 percent of the statehouses have female governors, what accounts for the fact that only 5 percent of movie directors in 2011 are female?
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imdb.com
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By Richard Schickel — Basically, I love movies about moviemaking. And basically, Hollywood loves making these movies. They have been a well-established genre since Chaplin was a pup. And a pretty good genre it is—there’s nothing like self-regard to bring out the feverish in people.
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Atlasshruggedmovie.com
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The people behind 2011’s “Atlas Shrugged” movie adaptation (yes, they finally released the movie and no, nobody saw it) were “mortified” to discover that the DVD packaging for “Part 1” billed the film as a story of “courage and self-sacrifice.” As every Randbot knows, self-sacrifice is sacrilegious in the world of Ayn. (more)
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Sony Pictures
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By Richard Schickel — “Moneyball” is a good story and people who have little interest in baseball don’t need to fear it. On the other hand, it has its largely overlooked problems.
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Ross Catrow (CC-BY-SA)
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With about a quarter of all Internet traffic in North America passing through its servers and roughly 25 million subscribers, Netflix got everybody’s attention in July when it announced that it was raising its prices by as much as 60 percent. Now the company is conceding ... (more)
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Facebook.com / BrightonRockMovie
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By Richard Schickel — The original “Brighton Rock” is so good—in its dank and sometimes almost unwatchable way—that it obviates a remake. But that never stopped anyone, did it?
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gonemovie.com
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The Allen Telescope Array in Northern California was shut down due to government budget cuts, but more than 2,400 donors, including “Contact” star Jodie Foster, gave enough money to keep the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute-run facility open a little longer. (more)
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thehelpmovie.com
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By Richard Schickel — There has to be a lingering suspicion (and hatred) that “The Help” cannot bear to contemplate. It wants us to believe that all involved learned their costly lessons in the Mississippi of 50 years ago.
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By Deanne Stillman — A real-life tale in which I meet the real Gidget, discover an ancient novella and see surfing’s holy grail.
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Sony Pictures Classics
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By Richard Schickel — In his new film about the further commercialization of movies, Morgan Spurlock looks to grind his ax against the practice of product placement.
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Wikimedia Commons
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By Deanne Stillman — Cleopatra has died, 2,000 years after she killed herself in ancient Egypt. Long live Maggie the Cat.
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By David Sirota — Overwrought Reagan/Bush-era pop culture first equated “terrorist” with “Muslim,” using sporadic atrocities committed by individual Islamic extremists to demonize all Muslims.
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artisnotdead.blogspot.com
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By Deanne Stillman — February 1st marks the 50th anniversary of the release of “The Misfits,” the iconic and underrated film about Nevada mustangers who brutally capture wild horses so they can sell them to the slaughterhouse.
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imdb.com
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By Richard Schickel — It begins sometime in early December, in a screening room near you, with a handful of middle-aged men and women impatiently awaiting the start of a new movie.
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By Amy Goodman — While much of the attention is focused on the celebrities, Sundance has actually become a key intersection of art, film, politics and dissent.
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Ricky Gervais had everyone laughing as he hosted the Golden Globes on Sunday—everyone except the stars in the room. Gervais’ jokes at the expense of terrible movies did not go over with the people who made them, nor did his quips about scandalized celebs and Scientology. (more)
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