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The worst movie review ever written is still poisoning the air.
When Guillermo del Toro’s Blade II hit theaters 20 several years ago this month, it was a a great deal-needed vital and business hit for the filmmaker, chalking up $155 million worldwide and superior-than-common testimonials. This is not the story of that motion picture. It is the tale of one of these reviews—quite perhaps the worst motion picture review ever printed, at the very least in an outlet of take note. The outlet was Ain’t It Amazing Information, the primo change-of-the-century source for motion picture gossip, test screening leaks, and off-the-cuff criticism the author was the site’s founder and editor-in-main, Harry Knowles. “BLADE 2 is an R-rated movie,” Knowles wrote.…
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The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week
Simon Leigh’s Next Act – Superstar artist Simone Leigh revealed her plans for the U.S. pavilion at next year’s Venice Biennale. Miami Madness – The Art Angle podcast looks back on a week of art fairs in Miami through the eyes of Annie Armstrong, Artnet’s Wet Paint columnist. A New Record (of Some Kind) – NFT superstar Pak became, by one measure, the most expensive living artist of all time when some 28,000 buyers bought 266,445 units of a single digital artwork, raising $91.8 million. New Art, New Problems – Katya Kazakina investigates the new problems of showing and preserving digital art that can be changed by an artist at any time. So Long, Sacklers –…
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