Movie Review | 'This Film Is Not Yet Rated': Some Material May Be Inappropriate or Mystifying, and the Rating May Be as Well
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Kirby Dick's feisty, intellectually engaging documentary tries to illuminate an aspect of moviemaking Â and moviegoing Â that is deliberately left in the dark.
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Two films tackle a subject that Hollywood usually prefers to avert its eyes from
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Trying to guess the choreographer in an unfamiliar company is an occupational hazard of sorts for reviewers.
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&#39;&#39;Ray&#39;&#39; may play like a crowd-pleaser, but given its long, difficult journey to the screen, you&#39;d think it was an inaccessible art film.
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The documentary âBeyond Hatredâ is an example of a film whose style doesnât merely suit its story but amplifies its meanings.
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To see something they have never seen before should be every moviegoer&#39;s greatest hope. It&#39;s one of the chief reasons why true movie buffs are constantly seeking out new kinds of films; it can be entertaining
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In not-too-secret online forums, Wesley Snipes' latest movie, "Blade: Trinity," is the subject of intense discussion and evaluation. But unlike typical movie fan sites, the chatter from visitors to Web sites like VCDQuality.com doesn't key on the vampire film's plot, acting or bloody visual effects. Instead, computer users dish out praise or criticism on the caliber of video and sound achieved by online groups whose sole mission is to make available unauthorized copies of Hollywood films within a day or two of a movie's debut, if not before.
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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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Many film critics' top 10 lists are very similar. Agreement or conformity?
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The director has read the screenplay, but has not come to a decision yet.
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Would "Casablanca" have been rated XXX? Depictions of smoking in movies will now be a factor when deciding what a film's rating will be, possibly making a PG-13 movie R-rated, the Motion Picture Association of America said yesterday. The policy affects only new movies.
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It's not without faults, but the film scores higher than its stage version
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These days, anyone with a digital camera and a laptop can make a movie. Which may be why it's harder than ever to actually get that movie seen.
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The film looks like a children's sci-fi film.
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Video nasties approved for DVD release The British Board of Film Classification has caused a bit of a rumpus by by approving for general release on DVD the famed "video nasties" which were 20 years ago deemed unfit for human consumption.â¦
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But the film will not draw in the audiences.
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But the film does not have most of the answers.