Appearing Way Before the Film: The Review
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âHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenixâ does not open in theaters in the United States and Europe until July 11, but the reviews are already rolling in.
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While it's not always a  foolproof barometer, in most cases when you see six writing and  10 producing credits on a movie, you can anticipate a fair  amount of confusion about the story the film wants to tell.
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The Monitor's film critic asks whether a nonfiction film can truly be unbiased.
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One way to escape the  rigid rules of Hollywood formula filmmaking these days is to  base your movie on a book. Adapt a movie from a best-seller  like &quot;The Devil Wears Prada,&quot; and you can make up your own  rules.
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Moviegoers who have become inured to pre-show car ads and trivia quizzes may soon get something old enough to seem new: cartoon shorts.
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A critic&#39;s reaction to a  film festival is akin to the old story about the five blind men  who all touch an elephant and report wildly different  descriptions of what the animal must look like based on the  particular body part encountered.
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A TV review of Thursday's presidential debate could have mostly been written before airtime. And it was, by many critics.
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When everything gets an API then everything you can imagine will be possible if you can write a script.  And sometimes, to give you an idea, all that has to happen is that a wall come down. The latest, most intriguing such wall was the paywall at the NY Times. Now all of a sudden we find the wealth of information published by the NY Times over many decades is available without tariff. More important, we can point into the archive. We've gotten so accustomed to the wall, that you actually have to think when it may be possible to go in there, as if it left behind a wall in our minds, even after the wall on the web is gone. For example, the first episode of Ken Burns's The War, an epic series about World War II from the American perspective, cited several NY Times articles. If you looked carefully you could see the dates, and the actual headlines, and then if you have a browser handy, as I do (I have an iPhone) you can actually read the article while the narrative continues. Today this is mostly a gimick, but I suspect as we get used to having history so available (like having a library microfilm machine, which I used to spend whole days playing with when I was a kid) it will change our sense of information, perhaps as much as anything else that's ever been on the web. Take movie reviews for example. What a thrill to be able to read a review of a movie that I love that came out in 1932! The reviewers back then were more forgiving, less sarcasting, more enthusiastic. Consider their review of the Hollywood Revue of 1929, a favorite of mine that I've only seen once (I'd pay for a DVD, if it were available). They loved audible movies (that's what they called them) as if the term "talkie" was as elusive as "podcast" was in the summer of 2004. Again, we've just scratched the surface. Wouldn't you like to have NY Times movie reviews integrated with Netflix? Or have Yahoo's movie rating service available on the NY Times site. And I have to wonder whether they really have gone all the way. You can't see the reviews unless you're logged in. Can Google's robots, therefore, see the movie reviews? Unless the've made some special arrangements, it seems not.  It would be helpful to get a technical guide to the newly hatched NY Times on the Web, or (as in the old days of software) a reviewer's guide, so we get some ideas of what to look at. Clearly a lot of work went into opening up the Times archive. I'm going to be in NY the week of October 8 and will have some time toward the end of the week. If anyone at the Times would be willing to spend some time with me reviewing what's now open, that would be helpful. In any case, at least the Times today is somewhat more available to be integrated into the fabric of the web. That's some progress. How much, remains to be seen. Postscript: Kottke did a great job of skimming the surface of the newly opened Times when it first came online, just one week ago today.
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Dan Brown's bestseller book will soon be seen on screen and it seems that director Ron Howard have a tough choice to make when choosing the protagonist.
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The film looks like a children's sci-fi film.
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Tycho:  It's been a couple weeks discussing reviews and reviewers around here, but somewhere along the way I neglected to mention that their job is essentially impossible.  The 7-9 scale they toil under is largely the result of an uneasy peace between the business and editorial wings of the venue.  No matter what score they give it, high or low, they're reviled equally by the online chorus.  Apparently, even when they do it right they're doing it wrong.
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Play film critic and review the Rajnikanth starrer.
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A brand is transformed on the silver screen.
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As with all KJ movies, there are 2 movies for the price of one, a pre-interval laugh fest and a post-interval weepie. Both are thoroughly enjoyable if viewed in the context of the 'commercial' movie.
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Arts & entertainment: Movie-makers used to wait until news stories were over before moving in. Not now, writes Peter Bradshaw
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Films use artwork the way they have long used music: to set a mood.
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Whenever my editor approaches me, I quickly size up his body language before he has said a word. If he looks genial and relaxed, he probably liked my story. If his face looks set and determined, I know a wrangle over copy is probably ahead.