7 of Roger Ebert’s Most Brutal Movie Reviews
bBY NOLAN FEENEY The long Fourth of July weekend is another kind of holiday for film lovers: The documentary about beloved film critic Roger Ebert, Life [more…]
Batfleck, Bombs, Booted Execs: The 15 Biggest Film Stories of 2013
BY: REBECCA FORD The drama that hit the big screen in movies was nothing compared to the drama occurring behind-the-scenes and in the studios this [more…]
Swedish cinemas take aim at gender bias with Bechdel test rating
Associated Press in Stockholm You expect movie ratings to tell you whether a film contains nudity, sex, profanity or violence. Now cinemas in Sweden are introducing a new [more…]
A Story of Children and Film | 2013 TIFF Review
by: Jordan M. Smith Youth In Revolt (and More): Cousins Channels MarkerA Story of Children and Film Mark Cousins posterIt should be no question that [more…]
Cinema and Marketing: When Cultural Demands Meet Industrial Practices
by: Nathalie Dupont et Joël Augros With the advent of the modern consumer society, being able to sell mass-produced objects on a large scale became part and parcel [more…]
2013: The Year in Reviews
by SDG 2013 was a year of cinematic trauma and stress, full of harrowing, at times also exhilarating, survival stories, many on the abyss of [more…]
Evidence Movie reviews
by: Steven Boone Many women spend hours taking camera-phone headshots of themselves before lucking upon the one they feel is flattering enough for Facebook. “Evidence” [more…]
Steven Spielberg and George Lucas predict film industry ‘implosion’
by: Ben Child Steven Spielberg and George Lucas have predicted a Hollywood “implosion” that could change the shape of the film industry forever and lead [more…]
Major Film Studios Prosper on the Margins
By Cynthia Littleton Shrinking release slates, a focus on tentpoles and the emergence of a ‘new normal’ in the homevid market has allowed the largest media [more…]