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Defending Katherine Heigl…at the expense of Jennifer Aniston
The outspoken passionate one is a pariah, while the cold, calculated one is adored by millions. We're doing this wrong.
Read More »The Bigger Picture: The Game Has Not Changed
It took me a while to get around to seeing Avatar. One reason for that, also coincidentally one of the reasons I have been a pretty lazy contributor to Popdose lately, is because I
Read More »The Bigger Picture: Lay Down Your Arms
“Filler” is a term often used by music fans to describe songs that sound like they were quickly put together to take up space on an album in order to “fill out” the running
Read More »Dw. Dunphy On… (Outlive)
Our own Arend Anton and Dw. Dunphy have collaborated on a film project, titled (Outlive). Watch the video here!
Read More »The Bigger Picture: Racist or Plain Stupid?
A controversy erupted recently when critics claimed that two of the robots in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen were racist caricatures. What then occurred was the standard Internet back-and-forth over an issue most people
Read More »The Bigger Picture: The Acting Bug
Actors can be an easy bunch to spot around Los Angeles. Often, they can be seen exiting a Kinko’s with a box of 500 headshots. The male can usually be seen hopping into his
Read More »The Bigger Picture: Film and the Age of Facebook
We live in a self-absorbed culture. Everything we do is shared through blogs, status updates, and tweets. Now that people have the Internet on their phones, nobody is more than a second away from
Read More »The Bigger Picture: Nothing to Fear
Appropriately for a week in which an Eddie Murphy movie is reaching theaters, Arend Anton devotes his latest Biggest Picture column to cinematic horror
Read More »The Bigger Picture: The Animal, the Internet, and “Darkon”
I’ve often written in this column about the state of film criticism and the Internet. It might seem strange that I, an online film columnist, feel I have the authority to judge something I
Read More »The Bigger Picture: In Defense of McG: Or, Why I’m Not a Movie Critic
When our esteemed editor and retired slow jam artist Jeff Giles first asked me to contribute to this site, he wanted me to contribute as a movie critic. I believe what he wanted was
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