Finding new ways to make movie posters eye-catching and original is always a challenge. The folks in charge of promoting the upcoming horror film “You’re Next” have just changed the game, printing up posters from other films like “Temptation” and “The Big Wedding,” each superimposed with a dim reflection of a masked axe-murderer. The result gives the viewer a jarring momentary illusion that the killer might be right behind you. If they’re this tricky with the posters, hopefully the movie’s scares will be just as creative.
Anne Frank’s been in the news more often lately than most living YA authors. This time it’s because a Michigan mother is protesting the definitive, unedited edition of Frank’s diary as too “pornographic” for school reading, because it contains a detailed passage in which the adolescent writer describes her misconception about the female anatomy. The first irony: if they didn’t encounter descriptions like this one, many contemporary students might end up laboring under those same delusions. And naturally the second irony is that the mom’s solution to her daughter feeling “uncomfortable”with the book is to blow it up into a big public debate.
I never tire of documenting Michael Bay’s long, tormented path toward the Holy Grail of a “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” reboot. It sounds like Bay has decided to respond to fan outrage over his declaration that the Turtles would be from alien race … by claiming that this was never the plan, despite perfectly quotable evidence to the contrary. Also implied: All the electricity used on-set will be generated by back-pedaling!
While we’re picking through kernels of disinformation, below is a great video that illustrates how easily George Orwell‘s predictions about media and memory manipulation could be put into practice via clips shows such as “I Love the ’80s.” Watch and despair!
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