Peter at /Film gives us a look at the new theatrical one-sheet for Juno, the teen pregnancy comedy/drama that will see a limited release this December, ostensibly in the hopes of rolling out wide throughout the awards season.
It’s a good poster (click the thumbnail for a larger version), vibrant and with loads of personality. Still, [...]

What a splendid idea. S.T. VanAirsdale at The Reeler Blog has created a Totally Unrelated Blog-a-Thon in which film blogs have been challenged to throw off the shackles of film blogging and write about something completely different.
Marketing messages are absolutely subjective. Marketers, of course, would have you believe otherwise, because it’s our job to create [...]

I saw this flashy banner ad on CHUD.com recently, in which we’re encouraged to buy the DVD for Captivity, available October 30th.
Apparently the DVD marketers have elected not to focus on the film’s scenes of torture and imprisonment. And they refuse to hype the young female charms of starlet Elisha Cuthbert. And if you’d [...]

It’s hard for anyone in Hollywood to know or predict the whimsical winds of public fascination. Each year, hundreds of starry-eyed actors, writers, singers, skanks and Second Assistant Prop Masters flock to the streets of Studio City, Hollywood, Glendale, Century City and Burbank, all in the hopes of splashing down into the hearts and collective [...]

Christopher Nolan is my current Hollywood hero. And that’s not just because he has a growing and impressive filmography, but also because, in the creation of next year’s The Dark Knight, he seems to have figured out several important lessons of compelling filmmaking that have somehow eluded the vast majority of creative thinkers in Hollywood:

He’s [...]

Regardless of what you might read or hope, celebrities are not just like us. For example, when you visit a restaurant, a camera is never focused on each open-mouthed sandwich bite and thought-to-be-discrete nose-pick. And when you’ve popped into your local drugstore for a fleet enema to correct an intensely personal problem, you’re never confronted [...]

Grievously, I haven’t had the time to contribute to the ripping great Close-Up Blog-a-thon which is concluding this Sunday over at The House Next Door. Lots of very, very good entries over there, with terrific insight into movie aesthetics piled right up to the ceiling.
For his close-up post, Culture Snob decided to focus on [...]