Upcoming
June 12
Call of the Wild 3D
Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love
June 16
June 19
Dead Snow
Whatever Works
June 24
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
June 26
Cheri
Fireflies in the Garden
July 1
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
July 3
The Girl from Monaco
I Hate Valentine's Day
July 10
July 15
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
July 17
July 24
All Good Things
The Answer Man
In the Loop
July 29
July 31
The Cove
August 7
When in Rome
August 14
A Perfect Getaway
District 9
The Goods: The Don Ready Story
Ponyo
Pool Boys
Spread
The Time Traveler's Wife
August 21
Five Minutes of Heaven
Goose on the Loose!
It Might Get Loud
World's Greatest Dad
August 28
The Boat that Rocked
September 4
Amreeka
Carriers
Citizen Game
Shanghai
September 9
September 11
The Red Canvas
Tyler Perrys: I Can Do It All Myself
September 17
The Burning Plain
September 18
Brand New Day
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Jennifer's Body
Splice
September 25
October 2
A Serious Man
Toy Story/Toy Story 2
Another One...C'mon!
Glenn Kenny, one of the country's finest film critics and a brilliant writer to boot, has been cut loose by Premiere.com. "What this means for this blog is still up in the air," he wrote this morning. "I've got meetings this afternoon in which such things are to be negotiated. In any case, I now join the ever-growing ranks of film critics without staff positions. I very much hope to keep this blog going...and get some good freelance work, quick. Anybody with ideas in this area should contact me at glennkenny@mac.com. Hope to be in touch again soon. Thank you, you're the best goddamn audience a blogger could ever have."
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on May 8, 2008 at 10:56 AM
comment #1
corey3rd
says ...
Cablevision just bought Sundance to go along with IFC. There will be consolidation and more indie film geeks looking for work.
Posted by corey3rd
at May 8, 2008 11:03 AM
comment #2
corey3rd
says ...
Cablevision just bought Sundance to go along with IFC. There will be consolidation and more indie film geeks looking for work.
Posted by corey3rd
at May 8, 2008 11:03 AM
comment #3
Jamieson
says ...
I've been reading Glenn's writing for years and have always found him to be one of the only tolerable film critics around. This news is completely puzzling to me. He's Premiere's only asset as far as I'm concerned, are they out of their minds!?
Glenn, if you're reading these comments, I'm sorry to hear this news and hope you continue writing elsewhere!
Posted by Jamieson
at May 8, 2008 11:22 AM
comment #4
p.Vice
says ...
Calling Kenny one of the country's best film critics is like calling a Whopper one of the country's best hamburgers.
Posted by p.Vice
at May 8, 2008 1:02 PM
comment #5
CinemaPhreek
says ...
As much as I deplore seeing another voice in the wilderness helping us find our way to the good ones, the writing has been on the wall for a very long time. The smart websites will start snapping up the bigger names as they are set free as they realize that film reviews bring in a nice stream of eyeballs.
Keep in mind, Google made something like $26 BILLION dollars in ad revenue last year. There's money out there and the more forward thinking critics will figure out way to make themselves valuable to it.
Posted by CinemaPhreek
at May 8, 2008 2:36 PM
comment #6
kingofnails
says ...
Whaat? This is sad, sad, sad. Kinney is one of the best around, and his writing was the only reason I ever frequented premiere.com. This is truly unfortunate.
Posted by kingofnails
at May 8, 2008 5:50 PM
comment #7
jjgittes
says ...
He's one of my least favorite critics/writers. I can't think of anything he's ever written in Premiere that' made me think about film in a way other than in the most obvious terms.....on the contrary, I'd often shake my head baffled not only by his opinions, but with the reasoning behind them.
Plus his writing was smug beyond belief - always with asides in parentheses and rhetorical questions ("Do you see what I mean?" "Is the point becoming obvious?") that were maddening.
He was (is) particularly weak in discussing acting and doesn't seem to have the slightest insight into the craft.
He was part of the problem.............
Posted by jjgittes
at May 8, 2008 6:01 PM
comment #8
Terry McCarty
says ...
Regardless of print or online, Kenny's being let go seems like another chapter in PREMIERE's periodic history of making nice with studios.
Perhaps Alan Horn and Dan Fellman's heads exploded over Kenny's review of SPEED RACER--not a pan, but not a rave--being on the same page as a banner ad for P.S. I LOVE YOU.
Posted by Terry McCarty
at May 8, 2008 8:27 PM
comment #9
MarkEbner
says ...
I happen to think Kenny is both smug and glib, but he is also a damned good editor/writer/critic. I bet this was a money thing for premiere.com. It seems that veteran critics are now not affordable...anywhere.
Ebner
http://www.hollywoodinterrupted.com
Posted by MarkEbner
at May 8, 2008 9:48 PM
comment #10
Glenn Kenny
says ...
Smug? Moi?
I love you too, Mark.
Posted by Glenn Kenny
at May 9, 2008 6:35 AM
Post a comment