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San Diego Comic Con 2017: A Disgusting Display of Fan Abuse by Hollywood and the SDCC Staff

Matthew Berg-Johnsen — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 14:00:06 +0000

I have have been going to San Diego Comic Con for the past 9 years. I have never experienced the pre-Twilight years of Comic Con where the atmosphere was significantly less hostile and relatively less… [more]

Multiple Realities: The Hollywood Films of Paul Verhoeven

Michael Campochiaro — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 20:20:22 +0000

After making a name for himself in the Netherlands, Paul Verhoeven moved to Hollywood in the 1980s to work on American films. From that period through the 1990s Verhoeven directed a series of movies across… [more]

Remembering Bill Paxton

Ian Dawe — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 19:20:21 +0000

Bill Paxton was one of those actors who was universally loved. Always a welcome presence in any film (or, indeed, TV show), a reliable character actor with strength, vulnerability and charm, but what made him… [more]

Hidden Figures: An Old-Fashioned Feel-Good Movie that Teaches

Ian Dawe — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 21:00:45 +0000

Hidden Figures: An Old-Fashioned Feel-Good Movie that Teaches" title="Hidden Figures: An Old-Fashioned Feel-Good Movie that Teaches" style="float:left;" />Hidden Figures is a harmless, old-fashioned all-ages family movie, that teaches an important historical lesson, but it’s light on its feet, entertaining and never feels like a slog. Quite the contrary: this is a very… [more]

Professor Nancy Wang Yuen on Her Career, Pop-Culture Studies, and Her Book, Reel Inequality

Nicholas Yanes — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 18:15:16 +0000

Reel Inequality" title="Professor Nancy Wang Yuen on Her Career, Pop-Culture Studies, and Her Book, Reel Inequality" style="float:left;" />Professor Nancy Wang Yuen is a sociologist, documentary producer, and pop culture geek who has made a career examining how mass media represents Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. She has recently published a book titled,… [more]

Energy and Environmental Conservation Took the Stage with Leo’s Oscar Win

Maria Karen — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 02:32:31 +0000

On a night packed to the brim with the brightest stars in the Hollywood universe, none of them shone brighter than Leonardo DiCaprio. After two decades and four near-misses, the film icon finally reeled in… [more]

Why Didn’t I Love The Martian?

Ian Dawe — Fri, 18 Dec 2015 12:00:23 +0000

The Martian?" title="Why Didn’t I Love The Martian?" style="float:left;" />Of all people, I should have loved The Martian. If I were to imagine a Hollywood film perfectly calibrated to my tastes as a) someone with a background in science, b) a gigantic space nerd… [more]

Project Greenlight‘s Season Four Finale Shows Real Courage

Ian Dawe — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 18:45:15 +0000

Project Greenlight‘s Season Four Finale Shows Real Courage" title="Project Greenlight‘s Season Four Finale Shows Real Courage" style="float:left;" />For a season that crackled with energy and drama, the finale of season four of Project Greenlight ends on a note of resigned exhaustion. All the participants in this project, from executive producers on down… [more]

Project Greenlight Crashes Into Episode 7

Ian Dawe — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 17:15:41 +0000

Project Greenlight Crashes Into Episode 7" title="Project Greenlight Crashes Into Episode 7" style="float:left;" />Project Greenlight closes one chapter of the making of The Leisure Class literally with a crash in episode 7. It’s the last day of production, and director Jason Mann has essentially alienated all his key… [more]

Project Greenlight Episode 5: Adapt or Call Cut

Ian Dawe — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 11:00:24 +0000

Project Greenlight Episode 5: Adapt or Call Cut" title="Project Greenlight Episode 5: Adapt or Call Cut" style="float:left;" />The Leisure Class officially moves into production on this week’s episode of Project Greenlight, and writer/director Jason Mann continues to act as an uncompromising and determined filmmaker, even as the realities of time and budget… [more]

Project Greenlight Episode Four: So Long, Pete Jones

Ian Dawe — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 11:00:10 +0000

Project Greenlight Episode Four: So Long, Pete Jones" title="Project Greenlight Episode Four: So Long, Pete Jones" style="float:left;" />“There’s an art to compromise,” says Pete Jones in the latest episode of Pete Jones States the Bloody Obvious, aka Project Greenlight. This week’s episode is all about how the filmmakers and producers populating that… [more]

Project Greenlight Episode 3: Stay in Your Lane

Ian Dawe — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 11:00:31 +0000

Project Greenlight Episode 3: Stay in Your Lane" title="Project Greenlight Episode 3: Stay in Your Lane" style="float:left;" />“Movies are all about power,” Chris Moore said way back in Project Greenlight season one. That was fifteen years ago, when the issue of shooting on film vs digital wasn’t even on the table, and… [more]

Project Greenlight Shines So Far in Season 4

Ian Dawe — Sat, 26 Sep 2015 11:00:35 +0000

Project Greenlight Shines So Far in Season 4" title="Project Greenlight Shines So Far in Season 4" style="float:left;" />It’s been a decade since season three of Project Greenlight and viewers could be forgiven for giving up the series for dead. As we’ve written here, the series and the concept seems to come from… [more]

The Chair Showed the Limits of Film Taste and the Director’s Role

Ian Dawe — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 17:00:07 +0000

The Chair Showed the Limits of Film Taste and the Director’s Role" title="The Chair Showed the Limits of Film Taste and the Director’s Role" style="float:left;" />The first season of the Starz TV series The Chair came to an end almost a year ago, yet it seems to have generated very few ripples of lasting influence, if the blogosphere is any… [more]

The Martian: Already a Problematic Adaptation

Ian Dawe — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 11:00:06 +0000

The Martian: Already a Problematic Adaptation" title="The Martian: Already a Problematic Adaptation" style="float:left;" />Like many fans of literate, thoughtful, plausible science fiction, I greeted the news that Ridley Scott would be directing the film adaptation of Andy Weir’s the Martian with great enthusiasm. The fact that the script… [more]

Project Greenlight: A Glimpse into a Bygone Era

Ian Dawe — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 19:00:20 +0000

Project Greenlight: A Glimpse into a Bygone Era" title="Project Greenlight: A Glimpse into a Bygone Era" style="float:left;" />Even though only fifteen years separates us now from the early 2000s, in terms of the production of film and TV, and the general media landscape, it seems like a lifetime in the past. In… [more]

The Magnificent Ambersons: The Film That Made Orson Welles Cry

Ian Dawe — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 21:00:48 +0000

The Magnificent Ambersons: The Film That Made Orson Welles Cry" title="The Magnificent Ambersons: The Film That Made Orson Welles Cry" style="float:left;" />“In those days they had time for everything. Time for sleigh rides…” And so begins, in a haze of warm nostalgia and gentle humour, Orson Welles’ most maddening and controversial film, The Magnificent Ambersons. Viewed… [more]

Tremble in Fear, Hollywood!

Bryan Miller — Wed, 10 Dec 2003 16:28:28 +0000

Hey, gang — welcome to another New Comics Day. I’m screwing around with the format of the column (again). Look for some more changes in the coming weeks. If you hate the new format and… [more]