Black Mirror is going to have to stick around for many more decades before it even gets within spitting distance of The Simpsons for eerily predicting future events. But the speed with which Holywood life imitated Black Mirror art was lightning quick this time.
Think back to the bygone days of [checks notes] mid-June 2023. Charlie Brooker’s sci-fi satire anthology was back with its sixth season, which opened with an episode titled “Joan Is Awful.” Annie Murphy played the title character, a tech company middle manager dismayed when Streamberry, a barely-disguised parody of Netflix,...
Think back to the bygone days of [checks notes] mid-June 2023. Charlie Brooker’s sci-fi satire anthology was back with its sixth season, which opened with an episode titled “Joan Is Awful.” Annie Murphy played the title character, a tech company middle manager dismayed when Streamberry, a barely-disguised parody of Netflix,...
- 7/13/2023
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
One hurdle Paramount Pictures had to clear during its CinemaCon presentation was the early backlash and skepticism facing its family tentpole “Sonic the Hedgehog.” The upcoming film adaptation of the widely popular Sega video game is putting an animated Sonic into the real world (similar to how Pokemon are being integrated into Warner Bros.’ “Detective Pikachu”), but first look posters have rubbed fans the wrong way due to Sonic’s hyper-real fur and new muscular physique.
“Paramount” tried to overcome the backlash by dropping the two teaser trailer at CinemaCon, one a traditional teaser introducing Sonic and another built entirely around Jim Carrey’s villain character and jokes that the movie is actually called “Robotnik.” The footage left journalists in attendance both hot and cold, with some intrigued to see more.
“Sonic” marks the feature directorial debut of Jeff Fowler, who worked as an animation researcher and developer on Spike Jonze...
“Paramount” tried to overcome the backlash by dropping the two teaser trailer at CinemaCon, one a traditional teaser introducing Sonic and another built entirely around Jim Carrey’s villain character and jokes that the movie is actually called “Robotnik.” The footage left journalists in attendance both hot and cold, with some intrigued to see more.
“Sonic” marks the feature directorial debut of Jeff Fowler, who worked as an animation researcher and developer on Spike Jonze...
- 4/4/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
For many film critics who watched, the 2019 Academy Awards ended with a whimper when Peter Farrelly’s “Green Book” was named Best Picture. The victory was immediately met with outrage from movie journalists and critics on social media, who all felt a sense of déjà vu in watching a polarizing drama about race relations triumph over a critically acclaimed art house favorite. In this case, the critical daring was Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma.”
“Green Book” beating “Roma” for Best Picture has now inspired countless comparisons to “Crash” beating “Brokeback Mountain” at the 78th Academy Awards in 2006. In fact, many film critics said that “Green Book” was such an uninspired Best Picture winner that it could help ease the backlash against “Crash” that continues to this day.”
“No one is happier than [‘Crash’ director] Paul Haggis right now,” RogerEbert.com editor Brian Tallerico wrote on Twitter.
The New York Times film...
“Green Book” beating “Roma” for Best Picture has now inspired countless comparisons to “Crash” beating “Brokeback Mountain” at the 78th Academy Awards in 2006. In fact, many film critics said that “Green Book” was such an uninspired Best Picture winner that it could help ease the backlash against “Crash” that continues to this day.”
“No one is happier than [‘Crash’ director] Paul Haggis right now,” RogerEbert.com editor Brian Tallerico wrote on Twitter.
The New York Times film...
- 2/25/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Colin Covert, the film critic for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, has resigned after the publication discovered a pattern of plagiarizing in his work. The Star Tribune announced December 10 Covert was stepping down from his role as film critic after being a staff writer at the company for over 30 years. Covert’s resignation was the result of his reviews “using the same unique language of writers for other publications, without attribution.”
“In his long career at the Star Tribune, Covert has made many contributions to our cultural coverage,” the Tribune said. “But this pattern of using distinct phrasing from other authors without attribution is a form of plagiarism and is a violation of our journalistic standards and ethics and those of our industry.”
Plagiarism in Covert’s work appeared as recently as November 1 with the publication of his review for Marielle Heller’s “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” starring Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant.
“In his long career at the Star Tribune, Covert has made many contributions to our cultural coverage,” the Tribune said. “But this pattern of using distinct phrasing from other authors without attribution is a form of plagiarism and is a violation of our journalistic standards and ethics and those of our industry.”
Plagiarism in Covert’s work appeared as recently as November 1 with the publication of his review for Marielle Heller’s “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” starring Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant.
- 12/11/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
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