The proposition that the Academy’s female winners are in a more profound sense losers has emerged as a media talking point.
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Transforming The Academy’s Female Winners into Losers
Hit Girl Could Be Your New Favorite Tween
She's Hit Girl, a foul-mouthed tween assassin in Kick-Ass, a comic book adaptation hitting theaters April 15. But after watching the trailer, I'm conflicted about her character.
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The Oscars: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Mystify Film Culture
It’s that time again: the time where Hollywood stands up and delivers its official pronouncement of what constitutes the finest in cinematic achievement for the calendar year
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5 Thoughts On: MacGruber
Five thoughts on the film adaptation of the Saturday Night Live sketch MacGruber.
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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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Brace Yourself for New Moon and ‘Screaming Teens’
The second installment of the Twilight Saga, New Moon, premieres tonight. With it not only comes the appearances, interviews, and other promotional efforts of the stars, but also the images of Twilight fans. Variety's coverage of New Moon's Hollywood premiere was as much about teen girls as it was about the film, with a...
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Alert: We Want Spoiler Alerts…Or Do We?
When is a spoiler not a spoiler? What responsibilities do those writing on media have to alert readers to the presence of potential plot-spoiling information in their work? What do you think?
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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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