I just had a crazy thought about The Social Network. It turns on this controversial and often-repeated remark (found here) by screenwriter Aaron Sorkin: I don’t want my fidelity to be to the truth; I want it to be to storytelling. I’m #TeamInternet all the way but I appreciate where Sorkin is coming from. I’m sort [...]
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Sorry… “films.” There was a bunch of chatter on Twitter about Slumdog Millionaire finally coming here (same week it was released in India? a developing nation, with wildly different taste, and concerns about audience backlash?) and The Wrestler isn’t here yet… This used to irk me, a few years ago, when I was a little younger – a little [...]
I truly hope this is a joke: A Russian communist group has attacked the newest Bond girl, Olga Kurylenko, for her “moral and intellectual betrayal” in starring in a film about the “enemy of the Soviet people.” Ukrainian-born Kurylenko, 28, stars in the new James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, alongside English actor Daniel Craig. [...]
