ANOTHER FILM CRITIC BITES THE DUST

Film critics are increasingly becoming a vanishing breed as newspapers continue to look for ways to retrench and focus more intently on drawing younger readers, many of whom would rather read the raw comments of their peers than the informed opinions of veteran reviewers. The latest to be pink slipped is longtime Village Voice critic […]

HORROR FILM GETS NO RATING FROM MPAA, NO STAR FROM EBERT

The horror film The Human Centipede is opening in a handful of theaters this weekend. It was not submitted to the MPAA for a rating. The Chicago Sun-Times‘s Roger Ebert is awarding it no stars as well. In his review, he writes: “I am required to award stars to movies I review. This time, I […]