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December 2011
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These Things Happened in Mission Impossible IV
Ethan Hunt turns off every plane in flight with a Bluetooth
A building turns into a robot and then runs down a freeway
A car smashes into a wall which smashes into a freeway which smashes into another car which smashes into the Kremlin which smashes into the Moon
Jeremy Renner throws a super-sonic hammer through a troop of boy scouts
A gorgeous woman in a dress breaks the necks of 417...
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You Can't Always Get What You Want: On Stephen... →
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I love this article because I love Stephen King. I think Taylor is spot-on in his assessment of the way most people usually think about King—
The serious consideration King has sporadically received over the years peaked in 2003, when the National Book Foundation honored him with a medal for lifetime achievement …
But respectability can leave a writer as underappreciated as...
“Our Internet intellectuals lack the intellectual ambition, and the basic...”
– The Internet Intellectual | The New Republic By Evgeny Morozov on October 12, 2011 (via danpatterson)
It’s a shame that both the accusation above and the review that this quote comes from are so filled with anger and bile because it clouds what’s actually a very interesting question: why is it...
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Robert Reich: My Political Prediction for 2012:... →
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My political prediction for 2012 (based on absolutely no inside information): Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden swap places. Biden becomes Secretary of State — a position he’s apparently coveted for years. And Hillary Clinton, Vice President.
So the Democratic ticket for 2012 is Obama-Clinton.
Why…
The Year in Review: 2011 Movie Character Fantasy... →
In which I demonstrate that my team, Roughing the Spielberg, is the clear favorite.
ecantwell:
Chris and I drafted fantasy football teams with our favorite 2011 movie characters. Click through to see who’s projected to win.
brightwalldarkroom:
2011 MOVIE CHARACTER FANTASY FOOTBALL DRAFT
by Chris & Elizabeth Cantwell
(with Special Guest Judge Brendan Joyce, Fantasy Football Expert)
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“Making a feature film or making a TV show [as] a definition of success, that’s...”
– Freddie Wong (via diablocodyisnotevenherrealname)
Wow. Such a defensive response to a quote that merely illustrates that creators actually have a choice now, if they choose to make it. That we don’t have to get permission from anyone to tell the kinds of stories we want to tell. That no...
“Making a feature film or making a TV show [as] a definition of success, that’s...”
– Freddie Wong (via diablocodyisnotevenherrealname)
A-fucking-men, sir!
(via stevewoolf)
This is the same reason why I think people shouldn’t write books anymore. Books are SO OUTDATED! BAH! BORING! Paging the 19th century, anyone? Hello! Am I right? I mean, I know these people have a passion...
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a bright wall in a dark room.: White Christmas... →
brightwalldarkroom:
WHITE CHRISTMAS, DECONSTRUCTED
by Elizabeth Cantwell
As most of my friends know, I tend to conceptualize movies in terms of brief, disconnected scenes that for whatever reason stuck in my mind. (So: “The Godfather is the movie where there’s a cat on Brando’s lap, and people are making…
Read this to experience the horror of Bing Crosby just THROWING HIS CHRISTMAS...
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Watchattentiondoozers:
listgenerator:
Scott went and made another pitch perfect super funny video with a bunch of awesome people. This is seriously hilarious. Watch Shooter McGavin, David Koechner, Maria Bamford and BUBS (!!!!!!!!!!!) try to win your vote for Santa.
I repeat, BUBS IS IN THIS! Watch it! Bubs!
Bubs! Bamford! AND SCOTT! A fabulous Christmas present.
Par excellence.
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“I will say that learning how to write has to do in part with learning how to...”
– Frederick Seidel, in his Paris Review interview.
I am awful about writing what I think I ought to write. It’s really hard to give in, as Seidel puts it, to your own themes, your own obsessions (and not feel somehow guilty for having those obsessions, for putting the reader through the wringer of...
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An Evangelical Remembers His Friend Christopher... →
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“We shall have to adapt ourselves to the shadowy screen and to the cold machine....”
– Leo Tolstoy, in a letter to a friend on the advent of cinema. (via confusionis)
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“Our culture is marketing, this is what we do, and what is marketing? Trying to...”
– Charlie Kaufman, BAFTA Screenwriters Lecture (via sunshinemakesmehigh)
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My Feature Script Made the 2011 Black List →
Number 16: THE KNOLL.
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“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow...”
– W.B. Yeats (via decayingmoonelf)
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