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FEATURED: OCTAVIA SPENCER and VIOLA DAVIS win AWFJ 2011 EDA Awards for their performances in The Help. Read more...
Carrie Rickey has been The Philadelphia Inquirer's film critic for 21 years and writes the newspaper's Flickgrrl blog. She has reviewed films as diverse as "Water" and "The Waterboy," profiled celebrities from Lillian Gish to Will Smith, and reported on technological beakthroughs from the video revolution to the rise of movies on demand. Her reviews are syndicated nationwide and she is a regular contributor to Entertainment Weekly, MSNBC and NPR. Rickey's essays appear in numerous anthologies, including "The Rolling Stone History of Rock & Roll," "The American Century," and the Library of America's "American Movie Critics."
Most Americans think of Penny Marshall as Laverne DeFazio, the title character of the popular TV show Laverne and Shirley. I think of her as the first female director to make movies (Big, A League of Their Own) that grossed over $100 million. Read more
Is there a movie trendlet of classic stories where the sidekick is promoted to central figure? Read more>>
After the love for yesterday’s post about directors dissing directors, here’s moviemorlocks.com on classic actors slamming their co-stars, with Marlon Brando and Bette Davis on the receiving end of the most derision. Read the rest of this entry »
Gloria Steinem in her own words….and also yours: In 140 characters, write what you want the future of feminism to look like. Read more>>
Fanboys and critics are cruel about the work of directors, but evidently not so cruel as other directors are if Flavorwire’s collection of the 30 nastiest director-on-director insults is any indication. Even the supremely unflappable Clint Eastwood flips one to Spike Lee. Read more>>
Without Polly Platt, there probably wouldn’t have been The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, or Say Anything. Read more>>
When a movie franchise dies, is it inevitably resurrected as a game? Read more>>
In the language of clothes, what does the Green Lantern’s CGI unitard say? Read more>>
I’ve been to Paris, France and Paris, Paramount. I prefer Paris, Paramount,” director Ernst Lubitsch famously remarked. And while on a Hollywood backlot Lubitsch confected an irresistible, glittering city of lights (see his “Trouble in Paradise” and Ninotchka”), ain’t nothing like the real thing target=”new”>Read more>>
Johnny Depp is set to play Nick in a “Thin Man” reboot. Why would you want to remake perfection? But if you were intent upon doing so, who would you cast as Nick’s Nora? Read more>>