Category: media

“Despite nominations in a number of major categories, black artists were shut out through the awards show. Making it particularly disappointing for many viewers is the fact that thanks to the box office and critical success of films like The Butler and 12 Years a Slave, many were heralding 2013 as a banner year for black cinema.”

The Grand Theatre 14 “apologized for the cancellation of multiple screenings of films such as The Wolf of Wall Street, American Hustle, Grudge Match, Paranormal Activity, Anchorman 2 and other titles.”

“I first thought of making the film when I read an article in Liberation that interviewed actors who played corpses in the reconstruction of crimes with the real-crime witnesses. Some actors had problems doing this.”

Updated as it happens.

Yes, sometimes Lena Dunham is nude to be amusing – but “the nudity on Girls often serves another valuable function that is neither funny nor sexy, in that it illustrates the intimacy between the show’s characters.”

Is it “12 Years a Slave” or “Gravity”? Or will “American Hustle” come from late in the game to win it all? And what about “Wolf of Wall Street”?

“At bottom the hackneyed, infantile writing of Twombly underscores a terrible solipsism, a real, modern solipsism that is romanticized in a way that embodies the toxicity of modern life, and there’s nothing soft or clean or pleasurable about it at all.”

“Ever since the Academy expanded its best picture category to as many as 10 nominees in 2009, only 59 percent of Golden Globe best picture nominees have earned Oscar nominations. The odds improve for the actual Golden Globe winners: 88 percent of them have gone on to earn Oscar nominations.”

“Getting ready for a night of Sunday television ‘takes more preparation than getting ready for the workweek ahead of you,’ said Ron Simon, a curator at the Paley Center for Media.”

“With every F-bomb comes more work for editors skilled in dubbing over such expletives for different markets, age groups and broadcast times.”