Category: media

“Looking at pay, movie budgets and expenses, we calculated a return on investment number for each star and then averaged those numbers to get an overall return.”

“We’re nowhere near where we were in the ’80s when we were trapped in low budget British film-making, with films that no-one wanted to go and see.”

“Scenes of stabbings, shootings, rape, decapitation and mutilation invariably received a TV-14 “parents strongly cautioned” rating on network TV, according to the Parents Television Council study released Monday. But similar fare on cable typically was given the most stringent label, TV-MA for mature audiences only, researchers for the media watchdog group found.”

“Our findings raise serious concerns about the effectiveness of the MPAA rating system.”

“What does Love Actually tell us about love, actually? Well, I think it tells us a number of things, most of them wrong and a few of them appalling.”

“For shows that don’t normally have music … and achieve a certain longevity, the musical episode is something of a television tradition. These episodes no doubt give the cast a way to shake off the doldrums, and they tend to make a big impression on fans.”

“If you want to understand why the Upworthy style is suddenly everywhere, you start with a program that controls what millions of people see and read everyday–and which very few people understand.”

“Women rarely appear as women – they appear as sex objects or as ersatz men – sometimes both at once.”

“Dude behind me? Lost it, loudly: ‘That’s it? Really? Really? Worst movie ever! Oscar contender!?'”

Says the director of this fall’s Nebraska (and of The Descendants, Sideways, and Election), “I think many of us have experiences with fathers who … are loving, they are nice, but somehow they’re on another planet and you wonder your whole life, ‘What is that planet that my father is on?’.”