Category: media

“The absence of color is egregiously noticeable in the sci-fi and fantasy genres, where characters can be any ethnicity.”

“It was a very progressive, surprisingly forward-thinking show — for about an hour or so, during the TV winners. The movie choices felt far more conventional.”

“Although I understand why they treat writers so badly, it’s not in their interests to do so. They will get poorer work from their writers. Create an atmosphere of trust and [writers] will take risks and write better for you. Create an atmosphere of fear and neglect and they won’t.”

“The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. and the film academy have envy issues. The HFPA craves respect. The academy wishes the Oscars, bound by its rigid format, could be as fun as the Globes. So the jealousy spiral continues, with the academy jostling its dates to mess with the Globes and the HFPA retaliating by hiring talented hosts like Fey and Poehler.”

“The remaining staff aim to print 1m copies of the satirical weekly, which has a typical print run of 60,000.”

“Over the past several weeks, it seems that almost every major awards contender has had some kind of high-profile accusation flung at it over its misappropriation of the truth. It happens every year, of course …, but this time, it’s reached comically epidemic levels … These movies are not documentaries, nor are they acts of journalism. (And even documentaries don’t always need to be totally accurate – just ask Werner Herzog.)”

“An upcoming Oculus Rift experience tracks a character’s recovery following a sexual assault – aiming to enable empathy, even therapy, for survivors and outsiders alike.”

“One falling tree managed to land directly on a very expensive microphone. Audiences can hear that in the movie.”