"In The Bigamist, … no one gets beaten up or shot. No one robs a bank or a payroll, and the culprit's downfall is signaled by nothing more violent than a baby's sudden cry from out of the dark. Yet it qualifies as a noir, this smoky, black-and-white study in human failure, thwarted desire, and quiet desperation. When you...
Almost all the incidents roiling America's largest public radio station happened behind closed doors, but, as Times media columnist Ben Smith puts it, "one thing I learned this week about public radio is that no matter what is happening, someone is always recording it." So he has the details of what Garfield called his "anger mismanagement," the newsroom mini-rebellion...
The researchers targeted 2,000 Twitter users from a range of political persuasions who had tweeted 11 overtly false news articles. After an extremely polite correction in the thread, which included a link to factually accurate information, the tweeters’ accuracy declined further—and even more so when they were corrected by someone matching their political leanings. This indicates that partisanship is...
For decades before the internet, TV was dominated by the Big Three: CBS, ABC, and NBC. Movies were probably brought to you by Paramount, Warner Bros., MGM, or one of a handful of others. Now all of those assets, after being scooped up and realigned by bigger companies or telecoms, have come out in a new form, one that...
Canada's film industry has managed to continue through the pandemic, in many cases as busy — or more — than before global industry shutdowns. In emails to CBC News, film boards across the country reported healthy industries. - CBC
Other companies have kicked the tires on MGM at various points during a stop-and-start sales process that has been dragging on for months. Industry insiders say that the true value of the studio is more in the $5 billion to $6 billion range along with the assumption of some debt. Even then, they are skeptical that MGM’s prize asset,...
After multiple writers left the show following season five, the show investigated. The writers - who all refused to be named out of fear of retaliation - say the environment for them was, at best, terrible. Another former writer on Caron's show Medium and current producer: "It was a toxic environment while I was there. And now that I...
Well, not quite yet, anyway. "When futurologist Ross Dawson published his 'newspaper extinction timeline' in 2010, he predicted that newspapers would cease to exist in the UK in 2019, in Canada and Norway in 2020 and in Australia in 2022. Wrong, wrong and, barring some unforeseen Australian cataclysm in the next six months, wrong again." - Irish Times
Actor Diego Boneta could only play famously secretive musician Luis Miguel for Netflix after studying the musician for years - and hiring both an acting and a vocal coach to help him sound, and seem, more like Miguel. But he needed something else: Time with Miguel himself. Boneta says, "He shared some things that he asked me to not...
It may be time to just quit everything. "My eyeballs are considering taking themselves off the market entirely. They’re sick of being courted, coaxed and, frankly, pressured into choosing this streaming service over that one, trying to keep up with all the glitzy platforms while not ignoring the quieter but equally worthy requests coming from those who may not...
Apparently, 70 percent of the moviegoing public - which is, let's note, far higher than the percentage of fully vaccinated people in the U.S. - feel comfortable going to reopened movie theatres now. This week, "before the studios showed off trailers for their upcoming slate of movies, Schwarzenegger led the audience in a chant: 'We are back. We...
"The technology is related to deepfaking, which uses AI to paste one person's face onto someone else. … It involves capturing the facial expressions and movements of an actor in a scene as well as someone speaking the same lines in another language. This information is then combined to create a 3D model that merges the actor's face and...
"Joseph Epstein once wrote that “Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.” He must have been talking about the telecom chief executives. Envy is the driving force behind their explorations — and the reason their efforts repeatedly fail. They are almost always envious of the success of Internet-based companies. They hated Google for making...
"Today's sex scenes are first and foremost fun — as ideally sex itself should be — and emphasize the truthful over the tasteful. In some cases, you'll see likable, relatable characters revealing perverse predilections. … Other moments make for embarrassing yet endearing waypoints en route to real intimacy. … Other filmmakers bulldoze the boundaries of which bodies the culture...
