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22 October 2009 1:40 PM, PDT | EW.com - The Movie Critics | See recent EW.com - The Movie Critics news »

I'm surprised there's been little media reaction to the casual comment President Obama made the other day about Where the Wild Things Are: The president was visiting a local public school, he's known to be a big fan of Maurice Sendak's book, he's screened the movie, and, as reported in The Washington Post, he told his kid constituency, "it's worth seeing." Given the dust stirred up by adults when Obama made a speech to schoolchildren last month on the apolitical subject of studying hard and doing one's homework, it's easy to imagine a grown-up anti-Wild Things faction criticizing »

- Lisa Schwarzbaum

9 May 2009 8:00 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

Getting sentimental and sloppy over our moms once a year is fine for well-adjusted kids and Mr. Hallmark, who took creative advantage of Mother's Day to celebrate sweet, loyal, dedicated moms. But we Rejects choose instead to honor filmdom's 10 most demonic, diabolical, villainous mothers - the ones we love to hate. We’re talking about the kind who screw with our heads, twist our self-esteem into an unrecognizable knot, and read us fairy tales about babies in cradles falling out of a tree to smash on the pavement below; Humpty Dumpty's fractured skull; blind mice who can’t escape having their tails amputated; and manic monkeys catching weasels and popping their bloody guts all over the lot. It should come as no surprise that we begin with Bette Davis. Get ready to work through some issues: 10. Charlotte's Mother in Now Voyager (1942) Bette Davis's memorable role of Charlotte in the melodrama, Now »

- FSR Staff

2 articles from 2009