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Cuteness vs. grimness.
Mon, Nov 9 2009 9:28 AM

Everyone loves it when trend pieces talk, like when you have Jim Windolf at Vanity Fair complaining about our obsession with "cuteness" and A.O. Scott at the New York Times taking on "grimness." In some ways they're actually worried about the same thing. Windolf proposes that we as Americans live in a culture of "growing self-infantilization... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Where the Wild Things Are, Zeitgeist, The Hangover, A.O. Scott, Weezer, Cute Overload, Mickey Mouse

The death of the original screenplay...?
Wed, Nov 4 2009 8:07 AM

This week's favorite Oscar topic, besides last night's announcement that Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin will be co-hosting the awards, is where all the original screenplays have gone. The Hollywood Reporter's Steven Zeitchik points out the a dearth of obvious candidates for the "Best Original Screenplay" category. If "Up," "Inglourious... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Up, The Hurt Locker, Awards, Where the Wild Things Are, Inglourious Basterds, (500) Days Of Summer, Star Trek, The Hangover, Away We Go, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Oscars 2010

Summer 2009: but what does it *mean*?
Mon, Aug 31 2009 11:31 PM

Clearly someone at Variety was crunching numbers every Sunday night and waiting for the moment they could announce that this was the highest-grossing summer EVER; late Monday afternoon, with all the box office estimates confirmed, it was time to drop the good news. Yes, this summer set records all over. $4.17 billion grossed over last summer's $4.16 billion... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Biz, Up, Pixar, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, WALL-E, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Transformers 2, District 9, Star Trek, The Proposal, Ratatouille, The Hangover