The 2010 NBA Finals are seeing generational conflict both on the court and on the sidelines.
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Film
Generation X Has a Midlife Crisis at Midcourt
Egregious Product Placement: Sex & the City & HP
What does it mean to have a beloved character's tastes change in favor of product placement opportunities? Fan backlash to product placement might disrupt the narrative, but it's probably not a bad thing for the advertiser.
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Letting Go of Criticism
Is popular film criticism dead or, worse, can anybody make money out of film criticism anymore?
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Vancouver’s (finally) Ready for its Close-up, Mr. DeMille
After years of starring in more films and television than any city other than Los Angeles or New York, with the Olympics, Vancouver finally gets to play itself on television.
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Hollywood Stars and the Death of the “Adult Drama”
Why are we currently experiencing what one filmmaker has called “the lowest point since cinema began”?
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What Do You Think? Most Important Films of the Decade
Continuing with our series, what films would you nominate as the most important of the decade?
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THWIP!+CTRL+DEL
Only 8 years into the Spider-Man film franchise, Sony's decision to start from scratch seems a little hasty. Why reboot Spider-Man?
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Egregious Product Placement: The Invention of Lying
A new Antenna feature designed to pick out and pick on egregious product placement moments within TV & film. This week's pick: The Invention of Lying. Too bad I got thrown for a loop...
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Ricky Gervais likes Girls and Girls Like Status
So I'm not living in a place where my social life includes television or movie theaters or talking about things that aren't terrifying. As a result I was not reduced to watching Ricky Gervais' The Invention of Lying by myself; I was reduced to watching some guy on the Internet's camcorder recording of Ricky...
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