Category: media

“Communities of graying gamers have sprouted up world-wide as generations reared on Pong and Pac-Man have become addicted to the latest iterations of Halo and Call of Duty, but are no longer as fast with their trigger fingers. So they are extending their playing days in virtual versions of the senior leagues.”

Who (and what) Oscar winners have excelled…

The tax breaks have lured millions of dollars of Hollywood film business to the state. But producers fear that could go away under the new plan…

“The story of a privileged woman whose maternal instincts kick into overdrive when her son kills a teenage boy in a car accident, “Child’s Pose” shares several hallmarks of the recently revitalized Romanian cinema, not least a focus on institutional malaise and corruption.”

One independent theatre employee: “We are going to lose the sense of going to a unique theatre and lose the sense of small independent busineses dedicated to art films and supporting the arts.”

“McLane said he looked to the style of repeating geometric patterns common to 1930s Busby Berkeley musicals. In Berkeley’s case, those patterns were often made up of dancers’ gyrating bodies. In McLane’s, they are composed of objects connected in some fashion to movies, including Oscar statuettes.”

Castration scenes: That’s where we draw the line. (But what about guns and other, less intimate violence?)

“Liverpool has seen an explosion of new media outlets in the last three years. Once, the choice was between gaudy fashion catalogues or a few raggedy fanzines that a young enthusiast had made using a photocopier, but now the city’s creative media are booming.”

For “Sesame Street,” the milestone — a first on YouTube for a nonprofit or U.S. children’s media outlet — reflects the increasingly multimedia nature of kid entertainment. Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch are now about as likely to be watched on an iPad, phone or laptop as they are on PBS.