fletch

‘Jackie Brown,’ and Other Glaring Mistakes on the LA Times’s Top 25 Films List

8:46AM STV | There’s a place and time for discussing the inanity of movie lists — usually early January, right when the radius of critics’ annual Top 10 circle jerk is at its widest. But a few prime exhibits pop up throughout the year as well, such as last weekend’s Los Angeles Times feature selecting the top 25 Los Angeles films of the last 25 years. While we wouldn’t begrudge the contributors’ right to close out the late-summer news cycle as energetically as possible (we’ve all seen what happens when John Horn gets bored), the tactical and intellectual errors that occurred along the way are an unfortunate example of zeal gone horribly wrong.

Short Ends: Trains, Clooney, And Gay Bombs

8:58AM Defamer Hollywood | · The Japanese are developing a way to make model train sets even less fun than they already are. · John Krasinski as the new Fletch? As long as it’s not Braff, sure, we’re on board. · George Clooney, cooperative citizen of the quiet Italian lakeside town his tourist-attracting presence is slowly destroying. · Gay Bomb: The Porno Flick. · Paris is out on Tuesday. Look busy. More »