Ari Aster's new film, 'Beau is Afraid,' has probably been the most divisive and controversial films released in recent memory. With one of those major criticisms being that A24 shouldn't have spent $35 million on it.
Are film critics living in a bubble? That's been the basis of a lot of discourse in recent weeks and months. But have they really become so far out-of-touch with the general public that it's become a problem?
Overabundance of choice has become a real problem in this age of streaming, and new service Curia thinks "less is more" is the way to go.
How did commentaries, opinions, and reviews turn from a social pastime to a profession that has the power to make or break film?
The epic feud between Variety and actress Carey Mulligan has now passed its one-year anniversary, and it would be a shame if this were to go down as the main thing that's remembered about 'Promising Young Woman.'
'CREEM: America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine' will premiere in August 2020 and will include interviews with Alice Cooper, Cameron Crowe, Joan Jett, Michael Stipe, Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Kirk Hammett, Thurston Moore, Peter Wolf, and more.
If you thought the discourse about Todd Phillips' 'Joker' was tiresome before the movie was actually released, then you ain't seen nothing yet.
Two movies this year, 'Gotti' and 'Gosnell', sought to market themselves by harnassing resentment against critics and other media.
A piece appeared over this past weekend that represents about a half-dozen of the worst trends in pop culture journalism at the moment, with one Rachel Zegler (of 'West Side Story') at the bizarre center of it all.
It's a common occurrence these days for film critics to find themselves at odds with vocal fans of a given movie, but the sparring that's been happening around Adam McKay's star-studded latest film, 'Don't Look Up', has felt notably different.
Stephen Farber is one of the most prominent film critics in the entertainment industry and a well established screenwriter who let us take a closer look inside the mind of a film critic.
The 2021 edition of the Golden Globes was a debacle in all sorts of ways, and while they correctly called out the Hollywood Foreign Press for one major issue, they completely ignored an equally large scandal surrounding the association.
'The Press Gang,' the new collection published last month collecting film reviews from the film section of the late New York alt-weekly 'New York Press,' is a welcome tour through an era that's now sadly past.
Even the most popular films that contend for Best Picture usually inspire at least some level of backlash, but 'Parasite' never did; that is, until it actually won...
Maybe the ‘old fashioned’ rock critics have further retreated into the online fringes of their personal websites and academic research, even further than they did last year. But luckily, they are still writing books.
Most of the big names like Greil Marcus, Robert Christgau, and Simon Frith are still around; somewhere in columns in established cultural magazines, books, and even academia. But it seems that their style of integrated cultural, musical and sociological analysis that at the same time deconstructs and reconstructs certain musical work is less and less visible. What has happened?
