Critic's Notebook on Tumblr: Archive

February 2012

3 posts

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January 2012

3 posts

December 2011

3 posts

November 2011

2 posts

October 2011

15 posts

September 2011

7 posts

To the filmmakers’ credit, you can leave the theater with a good grasp on how sabermetrics works and why it revolutionized Major League Baseball. But their biggest mistake in the end was to not make “Moneyball” about sabermetrics. Martin Tsai reviews “Moneyball” at the Toronto International Film Festival.

August 2011

19 posts

bbook: Anne Hathaway’s Impressive Lil’ Wayne-Inspired Paparazzi Rap on ‘Conan’

On London: Rioting in Media Context

ITV Reporter: Is rioting the correct way to express your discontent?
Young Londoner: You wouldn't be talking to me now if we didn't riot, would you?
ITV Reporter: ...
Young Londoner: Two months ago we marched to Scotland Yard,  more than 2,000 of us, all blacks, and it was peaceful and calm and you know what? Not a word in the press. Last night a bit of rioting and looting and look around you.