Today in Dodged Bullets: Michael Patrick King Has No Interest in ‘Sex and the City’ Prequel
Movie News By Kate Erbland on August 4, 2011 | Be the First To CommentAs a woman, there are certain things I am expected to always want – chocolate, shoes, bad boys, and more Sex and the City. As a human being with eyes, ears, a heart, and passable taste, there is one thing I will never want – more Sex and the City. The seminal HBO series, based on Candace Bushnell’s book of the same name, ran for six years and ninety-four episodes. It is single-handedly responsible for the unearned fame of a bad cupcake place in the Village, the use of the term “Post-It breakup” in pop culture vernacular, and the predilection of some women to get drunk on pink vodka-based beverages and scream that they are “a Carrie!” or “a Charlotte!” or “a Samantha, hahaha, because I am a skank!” It was a movement, people, its own cultural zeitgeist. It spawned two feature films, the second of which was so poorly received critically that it essentially stopped any and all plans for a third film (if we are lucky enough).
New York City is covered in romantic qualities. Be them personal experiences romping through the city in the middle of the night with a cute boy you met on the elevator, absorbing yourself in a different culture around every corner, or because you just straight up watch too many films without having ever visited one of the five boroughs. New York is a city of dreams, schemers, and downtrodden, but each person who experiences the island knows the pull and excitement of this crazy-making place. Otherwise, there wouldn’t be films and shows where Manhattan is featured as prominently as any actor or actress on screen. The fantasy of New York is more than just Times Square and Central Park, it’s feeling like you belong there. Film fills that gaping hole in the hearts of those who cannot live in the city, but who want to explore the possibility. You (rightfully so) can’t have sex in the back of a cab, but that’s okay because Sex and the City has you covered. You can also feel like you’re canoodling on a park bench at 1 AM while watching About Last Night. It’s quite possible most people have some sort of big city public sex item on their Fuck-It List, and most of those ideas come from the films we’ve watched.
Movie News After Dark: Looper, Sex with Blake Lively, Pam Grier and James Franco is Everyone
Movie News By Neil Miller on February 8, 2011 | Comments (1)What is Movie News After Dark? This is a question that I am almost never asked, but I will answer it for you anyway. Movie News After Dark is FSR’s newest late-night secretion, a column dedicated to all of the news stories that slip past our daytime editorial staff and make it into my curiously chubby RSS ‘flagged’ box. It will (but is not guaranteed to) include relevant movie news, links to insightful commentary and other film-related shenanigans. I may also throw in a link to something TV-related here or there. It will also serve as my place of record for being both charming and sharp-witted, but most likely I will be neither of the two. I write this stuff late at night, what do you expect?
We Made It Through: Sex and the City is Over
Movie News By Cole Abaius on July 28, 2010 | Be the First To CommentThe constant fear that the world has been living in for the past few months has finally lifted. The dread and avoidance of all things movie news related has subsided. A decent meal and the sunshine is waiting for everyone on the surface. For today, like a house dropping out of the clouds and onto a film franchise, Kristin Davis has announced that she believes there won’t be another Sex and the City movie. “I could be wrong,” she admits. “Obviously there was a time when we thought there was no movie happening so you never know. But it is not looking great.” It’s not looking great because the movie had box office trouble domestically and was not well-liked by critics or fans. It just goes to show – you can sneak by the critics, but you can’t piss off the ones who brought you to the dance. For now, let’s soldier on with cautious optimism. A new day is dawning, and it tolls the bell signaling a future without another Sex and the City movie. The future looks bright. [E!]
I’m not quite sure why I decided to watch Sex and the City in its entirety. It could have been my curiosity about the show, or my desire to put Sex and the City 2 in some fair context in an Internet blogging landscape overwhelmingly composed of male writers and male readers, or maybe I was seeking out some sort of endurance test…or maybe all these are lame excuses to shamelessly justify watching a show that one would so easily encounter ridicule for watching.
Culture Warrior: ‘Sex’ and the Romantic Comedy
Culture Warrior By Landon Palmer on June 1, 2010 | Be the First To CommentThe romantic comedy is, in many ways, as “pure” as genre as there ever was one, as it requires the strict adherence to owning up on an audience’s specific set of expectations – you know going in that the two central characters are going to end up together, the slight variation (and appeal) of the genre takes place in the journey to that anticipated point.
Fat Guys at the Movies Ep. 166 – Prince of Fat and the City
Features By Kevin Carr on May 28, 2010 | Comments (1)While Neil heads off to Dubai with his three BFFs to drink cosmos, shop in the marketplace and challenge Middle Eastern decency laws, Kevin invites fellow Fat Guys Fozzie Bare into the Magical Studio in the Sky to be a guest host, talking Sex and the City 2 and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Sex and the City was never intended for my demographic, but I refuse to fault it for that, for in critiquing those media objects not intended for us, we must be careful not to confuse preferences of taste with quality.
At first, I wanted to explore and ask the question of What Can Studios Do To Market to Women, but that seemed cruel and calculated. Instead, I’d like to know what the intelligent, female movie-goer wants.
Jack Bauer to Kick Ass For a Full Day on Big Screen
Movie News By Cole Abaius on February 9, 2010 | Comments (1)
Turned On, Tuned In: Cinematic Men to Help you Get the Girl
Features By Bethany Perryman on May 18, 2009 | Comments (12)What is turning Bethany Perryman on this week? Your questions. She answers everything from going way downtown to what cinematic Rico Suaves you should be studying before your next night on the town.
Couch or Curb: Cinematically Test Your Boyfriend’s Love
Features By Cole Abaius on February 13, 2009 | Comments (52)Love is in the air for some reason, so we’ve developed a fool-proof way of testing whether your significant other is worth your time. Now for girls!
They’re Back: Sex and the City Returns
In Development By Robin Ruinsky on February 6, 2009 | Comments (8)Just when you thought you were safe from the Sex and the City women, they’re back. They’re back like the shark in Jaws, Chucky, Jason, Freddie and every other scary character who haunts the cinema.
DVD’s I Bought This Week: December 9th
Features By Brian C. Gibson on December 9, 2008 | Comments (14)Brian Gibson loves to buy DVDs. Come with him on his weekly journey into the depths of credit card debt as he tells you what to buy, rent and avoid.
Can Twilight Succeed Without the Praise of Critics?
Box Office By Josh Radde on November 21, 2008 | Comments (20)The reviews are in! With Twilight releasing today, prepare to see your multiplex filled with tween and mommy Twilighters. But with lackluster reviews from critics, can Twilight win big at the box office?
DVD’s I Bought This Week: September 23rd
Features By Brian C. Gibson on September 23, 2008 | Comments (12)Brian Gibson loves to buy DVDs. Come with him on his weekly journey into the depths of credit card debt as he tells you what to buy, rent and avoid.
2008 So Far: 10 Things We Liked, 5 Things We Didn’t
Cinematic Listology By Neil Miller on August 4, 2008 | Comments (41)With Comic-Con over and done, we want to take a moment to pause and look back, at the year so far. We do this in a format that we like to call “Ten Things We Liked, 5 Things We Didn’t.”
Box Office: Sex and the City is Biggest Chick Flick of All-Time
Box Office By John Cairns on June 1, 2008 | Comments (4)I am pleased to say that I am glad that I didn’t listen to these fools in Hollywood who passed on their usual “conventional wisdom” about how Sex and the City would do.
‘Sex and the City’ Is Great for Fans; Okay for Guys, Too
Movie Review By Kevin Carr on May 30, 2008 | Comments (10)I feel a bit odd heaping praise on the film – even more odd than attending the 400+ person screening with our illustrious Executive Editor Neil Miller and being two of only about a dozen guys in the house. But there’s a lot of good things in this movie.
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