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Can Indie Movies Survive?

Gabriel Snyder · 02/05/10 04:31PM

Indie films have become the lost children of Hollywood in recent years. Author Edward Jay Epstein explains why Hollywood is abandoning the indie movie business in favor of merchandisable CGI spectacles like Avatar.

Emotionally Unstable Woman Weeps at Every Movie

Richard Lawson · 02/03/10 01:39PM

The whole thing is supposed to be adorable, and it is, sorta. In the same kind of funny/sad way that this video was cute but also quietly unsettling. Though the husband assures us in the site's FAQs section that his wife is perfectly mentally fit and doesn't bawl uncontrollably at everything in life, just silly movies, we just don't know, man. This lady is a liiiittle wacky. What happens when she watches, like, Night and Fog? Does her face just fall off? Another scary fact: Apparently she "used to cry at the end of The Little Mermaid when she was 4." So this person is 25-years-old, tops. Unless the guy's talking about the weird Richard Chamberlain version where she turns to sea foam at the end. Is that the one? We doubt that's the one. Point being: What happens when she has kids? This, we guess.

Why We Never Want to Go to Sundance

Richard Lawson · 01/27/10 03:34PM

The only thing you need to do to get rid of any "Ohh, I wish I was at Sundance" blues is to actually look at coverage of Sundance. The crowds! The lines! The stars! It's all pretty gross up close.

Netflix Sunday Matinee: Big Fan

David Matthews · 01/24/10 01:30PM

Sports fandom has been a part of movies since the dawn of man. Singles featured eloquent soliloquies about the merit of Xavier Daneilt and Celtic Pride taught us it was okay to kidnap the star player on the Utah Jazz.

Say Anything Puppet Serenades New York City

Whitney Jefferson · 01/18/10 11:57AM

This sad puppet version of John Cusack's Lloyd Dobler hits the streets of New York, boombox in hand, and blasts Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes." Glad to know he never got over puppet Diane Court after all these years.