No Talking at the Talkies and No Pictures at the Picture Show

In a funny and sometimes scathing blog rant, a freelance movie reviewer for E! Online went off on the bane of press-screening reviewers everywhere: Theater Security. For all the swank junkets and lavish swag they give to reporters, studios still haven’t figured out that they shouldn’t hire goons to annoy the hell out of journalists right before herding them, cattle style, into the theaters to see their pics.

This particular scribe, who goes by the name Absinthe, said he was nearly denied entry to Turistas because his Sidekick sports a poor-quality camera phone.

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