Category: Film & TV

SeaWorld Entertainment startled the film world last weekend by sending a detailed critique of the movie to about 50 critics who were presumably about to review it. It was among the first steps in an aggressive public pushback against the film, which makes the case, sometimes with disturbing film, that orca whales in captivity suffer physical and mental distress because of confinement

“Deep Thoughts,” which were later collected in a series of popular volumes, were designed to satirize the genre of the feel-good affirmation. Examples include: “If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.” And: “As the evening sun faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.”

There’s a hunger for international news done in a different way. And when you’re trying to tell a story in this kind of world, you have to push it. I don’t know that you can ever go too far these days

where Tim and Eric strap on GoPro cameras to their heads and let viewers see their every move. The series launches on April 15

“I asked Seinfeld if he thought C.K.’s stand-up hours, widely praised, would improve if he spent more than a year honing each one. ‘It’s not really fair for me to judge the way somebody else approaches it,’ Seinfeld replied. ‘I care about a certain level of detail, but it’s personal. He would get bored of it. It’s not his way. It’s a different sensibility.’”