Category: media

“Social and sexual boundary breaking ensue. So do many moments of cringy humor. ‘I call my brand “funcomfortable,”‘ Ms. Soloway said.”

Early this year, Sony abandoned “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” for “After Earth” and “White House Down” – whatever those last two movies are (did anyone see them?). Um, oops.

“In place of the 30 reporters and editors who left last winter, the Times is hiring ­dozens of videographers to create new ­content for the paper’s website” – and they report to the corporate, not the editorial, side of the paper. Wait, what?

Analyst Barton Crockett theorized that Netflix may have been caught by surprise by how binge-viewing has shaped demand for its original programming. “Netflix might be accelerating front-end loaded viewing by debuting series all at once,” he added.

“Twenty-two Saturday Night Live cast members – and one who came close – share tales of the audition that can make or break a career.” Included are extended interviews with Chevy Chase, Dana Carvey, Molly Shannon, Will Ferrell, Kirsten Wiig and Jimmy Fallon.

That would be John Frankenheimer’s film Seconds, which features groundbreaking cinematography, identity theft, suburban anomie, on-camera plastic surgery, and Rock Hudson.

“Ike Boutwell, a Korean War veteran, owns the Movie Palace in Elizabethtown and trained pilots during the Vietnam War. … He says Jane Fonda committed treason against the United States during Vietnam and refuses to show movies she appears in.”

“Some producers, they contend, inflate ticket sales to reach audience thresholds that enable them to receive big state subsidies worth as much as a third of the cost of production.”

“I’ve been a film critic for over twenty years, and a film and TV critic simultaneously for fifteen. I have never seen anything as innovative and thrilling as what a lot of my TV critic colleagues have been doing since the mid-aughts.”

“Of 101 films from the six major studios in 2012, 14 included characters who were identified as lesbian, gay or bisexual, and none who were transgender.”