Archive for 2011
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
Just hard to imagine Julianne Moore pairing off with Steve Carell in Glenn Ficarra and John Requa's Crazy Stupid Love. And if Critic After Dark Noel Vera demands more of his rom-coms, that's because the man has standards.
Is this the state of rom-com today? Talent and effort and mucho production ...
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Sunday, December 4th, 2011
Anti-piracy group BREIN is caught up in a huge copyright scandal in the Netherlands. A musician who composed a track for use at a local film festival later found it being used without permission in an anti-piracy campaign. He is now claiming at least a million euros for the unauthorized ...
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
It is said that those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it. In the case of the copyright industry, they have learned that they can get new monopoly benefits and rent-seeker’s benefits every time there is a new technology, if they just complain loudly enough to the legislators. ...
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
ELVIS COSTELLO ORDERS FANS TO 'STEAL' HIS NEW BOX SET OVER JACKED-UP PRICE
Nov 29, 2011: Elvis Costello has been a staunch critic of Wall Street money grubbers since the beginning of the recession, and he's not about to flip-flop when it comes to his own personal wealth. As NBC New ...
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
"Tadashi Yoyogi aka Yoyochu is 72 years old. He has shot 511 adult videos and still makes one a month." Masato Ishioka's 2010 documentary, Yoyochu In The Land Of The Rising Sex, takes a look at the filmmaker often referred to as the Father of Japanese Adult Videos. Stephen Tan ...
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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
It is fascinating to watch the level of hysteria performed by both Zionists, AZZ (Anti-Zionist Zionists) and some elements within the Left ahead our concert at the Raise Your Banner music festival. Now, when it becomes clear that they didn't manage to stop The Wandering Who?, they clearly try to stop the jazz ...
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
In the vein of classic espionage thrillers such as The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, John Madden's The Debt (2011) goes for mood, stillness and quiet to drive home the suspense and where, as Critic After Dark Noel Vera says, everything old is new again.
John Madden's The Debt, ...
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
Is culture one of the last arenas of post-colonial expression? While the world is embroiled in battles for territory, art imitates life, and the film festival world is a conflict zone for the possession of world cinema. Longtime festival watcher, Philip Cheah, watches the wheels go round and round.
Several years ...
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
Today, it's the goal that matters. So what if a few kids were abused? It's 'collateral damage', winning is all that matters. The sports culture explained by Dave Zirin.
Meet John Matko. John Matko is a 34-year-old Penn State class of 2000 alumnus, distraught by the recent revelations that legendary Coach ...
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