Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Unlike your run-of-the-mill cheap liquor — you know, the stuff that’s sold in plastic onesies — Arnold Schwarzenegger is like a good bottle of your drink of choice. Why’s that, you ask? Because the older Arnie gets, the better everything he does is. Consider the man’s charity work for the After-School All-Stars program in California….
Filming has begun for Paul Feig’s upcoming Ghostbusters movie, with Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones as the new proton pack-wielding foursome. And the first photos offer a few clues to what kinds of characters these ladies will be playing. Collider points us to a few set pictures that have gone out…
Jurassic World is delighting audiences, smashing box office records, and making people excited about dinosaurs again. But did you notice the movie is also sort of terrible? If the new installment of Jurassic Park left you with questions, our patented Spoiler FAQ has the answers you didn’t even know you needed! How would you summarize…
I was ten when Jurassic Park roared across the screen in the summer of 1993. I couldn’t wait for it. Both National Geographic and TIME ran dinosaur cover-stories leading up to the release, celebrating the new image of “hot-blooded” saurians set to make box-office records. In the week leading up to the movie, I finally…
A US critic who claimed that “women don’t get Goodfellas” has been at the centre of a Twitter storm after his article was published yesterday. In a piece called Women are not capable of understanding GoodFellas, Kyle Smith, the New York Post’s chief film critic, refers to women as “the sensitivity police” who would disapprove…
Photo A scene from “Jurassic World.” Credit Universal Pictures Clomp, clomp, clomp — here it comes, another new blockbuster ready for its shock-and-awe ch-ching close-up. With its global brand recognition, “Jurassic World” comes with more muscle than the average big-ticket behemoth, one that’s been built on best-selling novels, three earlier flicks, theme-park attractions and the…
Or: How Tolkein Just Ripped Off History. via ▶ 6 Reasons Lord Of The Rings Is Racist – Today’s Topic – YouTube.
So by now we’ve all seen Mad Max: Fury Road at least once and have had our faces melted off. If you haven’t, stop what you’re doing and go see it. Then come back and read this. Or proceed with caution. Spoilers be near. Writer/director George Miller has been somewhat fast and loose about the…
Mad Max: Fury Road has reached that critical point on the internet where a tsunami of critical and popular appreciation begins to hit the breakwaters of both informed dissent and insincere contrarianism. To be clear, it would neither be interesting nor desirable to have uniform, monolithic appraisals of film or culture of any kind, and…
On Tuesday, Joyce Carol Oates, the American author whose Twitter feed is an jewel box of absurdist, vaguely offensive half-thoughts, showed her stripes as a true conservationist. Oh man, I bet that guy is so humiliated and will never post to another trophy hunting message board again! Just kidding, the animal in that picture is…