My Favorite Movies: The Social Network
Five years ago, the consensus on The Social Network was that it wasn’t so much about Facebook specifically as it was an update on the age-old concepts of genius, entrepreneurship, and […]
Five years ago, the consensus on The Social Network was that it wasn’t so much about Facebook specifically as it was an update on the age-old concepts of genius, entrepreneurship, and […]
The romantic comedy, when done well, is the kind of effortless entertainment that feeds Hollywood’s reputation as a place where dreams come true. The genre first came into its own […]
The Introduction I didn’t see this movie from start to finish until March 2008, on a Netflix DVD. At the time, that felt like a major oversight. Jon Heder’s Napoleon […]
No proper blog post this week, but I’ve written in a couple other places and felt like sharing the links. There’s a short review of Spike Jonze’s movie Her on my […]
We lived on farms, then we lived in cities, and now we’re going to live on the internet! –Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake), The Social Network On Tuesday, Facebook turned ten years […]
First things first: to anyone who thinks the wrong definition of the word literally was added to the dictionary last week, all I can say is that it’s a little hypocritical […]
Letterboxd has now virtually replaced Flixster as the website I use to share movie ratings, reviews, and lists. It’s a social network that allows you to keep a diary of […]
Wikipedia, the online, reader-edited encyclopedia, honored the 750th anniversary of American independence on July 25 with a special featured section on its main page Tuesday… The special anniversary tribute refutes […]
You know, there’s just always interesting stuff to read on the Internet, and I still can’t stop reading and sharing it. So I’ve decided to relaunch my “What I Read […]
Roger Ebert passed away yesterday at the age of 70. In the film community, the loss is immense. Ebert was the first film critic ever to win a Pulitzer Prize […]